 | Patrick Fraser Tytler, James Wilson - 1832 - 462 דפים
...deep stillness of the night., also, these northern meteors were distinctly heard to make a rushing and crackling noise, like the waving of a large flag in a fresh gale of wind.* According to the information of the natives, the Athabasca Lake is nearly 120 leagues long from east... | |
 | Richard King - 1836 - 676 דפים
...heard. Hearne " positively affirmed that in still nights he frequently heard the northern lights make a rustling and crackling noise, like the waving of a large flag in a fresh gale of wind ;" — in which opinion, it is worthy of remark, he is borne out by the uniform testimony of the natives.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1840 - 650 דפים
...spark, or of falling hail.' Hearne, on the northern shore of America, heard them making a rushing- and crackling noise, ' like the waving of a large flag in a gale of wind.' Gmolin, on the coast of the polar sea, says, ' the streams of brilliant light crackle,... | |
 | John Fitzgerald Pennie - 1839 - 480 דפים
...the streams of light crackle, sparkle, whistle, and hiss, like artificial fire-works. Hearne says, " I have frequently heard them making a rustling and...like the waving of a large flag in a fresh gale." — Sir Charles Giesecke, who frequently observed these lights in Greenland, asserts nearly the same.... | |
 | Patrick Fraser Tytler - 1841 - 376 דפים
...the deep stillness of the night, also, these northern meteors were distinctly heard to make a rushing and crackling noise, like the waving of a large flag in a fresh gale of wind.* According to the information of the natives, the Athabasca Lake is nearly 120 leagues long from east... | |
 | Philip Tocque - 1846 - 418 דפים
...Hearn's journey to the Arctic Sea, " these northern meteors were distinctly heard to make a rushing and crackling noise, like the waving of a large flag in a fresh gale of wind." At Western Bay, in Conception Bay, a few years since, a crimsoncoloured Aurora appeared just before... | |
 | Patrick Fraser Tytler, Robert Michael Ballantyne - 1853 - 472 דפים
...the deep stillness of the night, also, these northern meteors were distinctly heard to make a ruahing and crackling noise, like the waving of a large flag in a fresh gale of wind.* According to the information of the natives, the Athabasca Lake is nearly one hundred and twenty leagues... | |
 | Patrick Fraser Tytler, Robert Michael Ballantyne - 1854 - 476 דפים
...the deep stillness of the night, also, these northern meteors were distinctly heard to make a rushing and crackling noise, like the waving of a large flag in a fresh gale of wind.* According to the information of the natives, the Athabasca Lake is nearly one hundred and twenty leagues... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1881 - 372 דפים
...observations. I can positively affirm that in still nights I have frequently heard them make a rustling sound and crackling noise, like the waving of a large flag in a fresh gale of wind. This is not peculiar to the place of which I am now writing, as I have heard the same noise very plain... | |
 | 1883 - 528 דפים
...observations on those meteors. I can positively affirm that in still nights I have frequently heard them make a rustling and crackling noise, like the waving of a large flag in a fresh gale of wind. This is not peculiar to the place of which I am now writing, as I have heard the same noise very plain... | |
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I can positively affirm, that in still nights I have frequently heard them make a rustling and crackling noise, like the waving of a large flag in a fresh gale of wind. 
