The Influence of the Blue Ray of the Sunlight and of the Blue Color of the Sky; In Developing Animal and Vegetable Life; In Arresting Disease and in R (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 edition. Excerpt: ... very good (photographic) views, but not as large a variety as we intend to have before we complete our winter's work. * * * We have also made three negatives of clouds, which were at least half a mile below us. They resemble the waves on the ocean, only the cloud waves are in some places twenty or thirty miles long. They pass over a range of mountains, and take a long sweep across the valleys and then rise over the mountains on the opposite; and as a general thing, after passing over and coming down on the other side, they break up in small clusters resembling, on a grand scale, the surf from breaking waves. We have made some photographs of this. * * * * All these clouds move rapidly from the southwest, probably at a velocity of forty miles an hour, while on this summit, it blows generally from the northwest. "We have made a view which shows a small portion of a remarkable cloud effect or phenomenon. It was like a parallel belt on the distant horizon, whose circuit must have been more than a thousand miles. It resembled the tire of an immense cartwheel, (we occupying the place for the hub, ) which was beyond and encircled all the lakes, mountains, &c. It was even beyond Mount Katahdin--at the south, its upper edge wa3 parallel with the point farthest north. At noon it appears to be approaching us as a centre, and as it nears us, it breaks up in magnificent great thunderheads, minus the thunder, --all this time our view is becoming more limited. * * * All this time it was snowing below, but we knew nothing of it until night. Our view of the surrounding mountains lasts only a short time longer, for we see to the west thick heavy clouds, marching upon us, and by 4 o'clock, we becomo densely shrouded--we cannot see Tip Top House from the...