... heat, aud a particular lurid tinge the sky before night. For a fortnight previously the thermometer indicated 90 degrees, and sometimes upwards, for six or eight hours a day, and never tell beloyv 80 degrees, day night, so far as can ascertain. am thankful ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... deepened with dust, raised by the countless crowd, and the smoke of innumerable lamps. Over all is the high, clear, blue sky of night, with the decrescent moon shining on the surface the river. Execution of Wright for thr Watsrloo-road Mchdeh.—Notwithstanding ...

... the distance the chain of hills that connect Pontypool with Abergavenny. Over the heights of the is soon reflected the sky at night the glare of the ironworks situate Blaenas on. There arc hurdle and earth hunkers, and to reach the green takes a drive ...