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) or unit of length, representing one-fourth-millionth part of the circumference of the earth round the poles.
In the middle of this, on the back side, in a convenient frame, is placed a small Cylinder, whose circumference is equal to twice the length of one of those divisions, which I find answer to an inch of ascent, or descent, of Mercury: This Cylinder I, is movable on a very small Needle, on the end of which is fixt a very light Index KL, all which are so pois'd on the Axis, or Needle, that no part is heavier then another: Then about this Cylinder is wound a small Clew of Silk, with two small steel Bullets at each end of it GH; one of these, which is somewhat the heavier, ought to be so big, as freely to move to and fro in the Pipe F; by means of which contrivance, every the least variation of the height of the Mercury will be made exceeding visible by the motion to and fro of the small Index KL.
In a few species where the stem seems to be wanting, or where it is attached to the side of the cap, the lamellæ, or gills, radiate from the point of attachment or from the lateral stem to other parts of the circumference of the cap.
Specimens have been reported seven feet in circumference and attaining a weight of 40 pounds.
Somewhat round, then dilated, confluent, fleshy and membranaceous, reddish or flesh-red, the circumference peculiarly radiately marked.
It is the globe of 48,000 miles in circumference revolving in 24 hours, and the speed is doubled.
If a bullet could be shot so farre till it came to the circumference of those things which belong to our center, then it would fall downe to us.
Now the centre of the earth is a certain void place where nothing is at rest, and upon the margin or circumference of this centre the four Elements project their qualities.
In the equatorial region the velocity of a point is more than a thousand miles in an hour, for the circumference of the earth is 25,000 miles, and it turns once on its axis in 24 hours, which is the length of the day.
To fix the ideas, let us consider a circular portion of the crust, say one hundred miles in diameter, and let us suppose, in the first instance, the circumference of this circle to remain fixed, and that the elevation was confined to the space within it.
Hailstones fourteen inches in circumference fell in New South Wales in February, 1847.
In former times Nikosia was some miles in circumference and was three times as large as it is now.
The tree, which grows 120 feet high and upwards in America, with a trunk forty feet in circumference at the base, has generally, when of this size, the lower part of its trunk hollow, often to the height of five feet or six feet from the ground.
If the Sun be projected on a screen, as already mentioned, this degradation of the Sun’s light from centre to circumference becomes particularly manifest.
This, indeed, seems to flow from Trouvelot’s observation, that the ball is less luminous at its circumference than at its centre.
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