... The Euphrates, working up the Gulf at this time, experienced for the five days following very unsettled ' weather, the sky every night presenting wild and gloomy appearance, with sudden squalls and vivid lightning, unusual at that time of year. The Euphrates ...

... the sky. Sometimes they would eclipse the sun for fifteen years together—i.e. during one-half of the year of Saturn. At ordinary times the sun would appear very minute, giving only one-ninetieth part of the light which we on earth receive. The sky at night ...

... thing of redaction is supernatural throughout. The wildest frolic an opium-eater's reverie is nothing to the phantas of the sky to-night. Karnacks of ice turned down were resting upon rainbow-coloured pc; great needles, obelisks of pure whiteness, shot . jP ...

... billows, the herculean form of Hugh o' tho Maypole, riding on the waves and directing the storm, the fires that redden up the sky at night —all teach how The soft religious cry, Down with the nests, and the rooks will fly! may be raised for other limo religious ...

... con! which were of admirable lasted all that could be burnt was consumed, and lighted up distance. All that remains the sky at night tos of the Im is a mass of ened stones strong. and with a few fiel French cavalry and guns. The Russian fc and with a few ...

... magazine caught, and the explosion blew out the walls and ceiling of .the central barrack. The conflagration lighted up the sky at night to a great distance, and all that remains of the Imperial Barracks of Sebastopol is a mass of charred and blackened stones ...

... admirable construction, was in a blaze. The conflagration lasted till all that could be burnt was consumed, and lighted up the sky at night to a great distance. Whoever the man was, by the act for which he so dearly paid, he destroyed not less than 30,000 cartloads ...

... Meteor. —On Wednesday night at; about ten or twelve minutes to eight o'clock, a brilliant meteor was observed in the north eastern sky. The night was mild and tolerably clear for December, though there was slight haziness in the sky towards north, hiding ...

... darkness for so many nights about once month? Why? Because it appears that our Commissioners, like the Corporation the City London in the seventeenth century, who thought thsj Hemiso’s Lanterns” were only needed “ moonless nights, think that when the ...

... {a other have been the case. We hove in adopted as a rule. ‘uture, that what is a courtesy convenience may be tacitly Sky « Sunday night, between and seven o'clock, Mrs. Sheldep, butcher, £30., which had boon Stress, was at church, her house shelled oats ...

... and travelled all night, which waa for all purposes dark enough to favour'any stratagem that wicked men might concoct to plunder or murder such fell in their way. We travelled rapidly amid desert mountains wrapped the sable sky of night, after leaving the ...

... the earth. Nor is their size constant, as they often vary from night to night. The nucleus of the last was considered by Herschell on June 30 to be miles in diameter ; on subsequent nights Mr. Hind gave it something like 400 or 500 miles ; so the nucleus ...