 | Tobias Smollett - 1798 - 612 sider
...moft prodigious height, became afterwards condenfed in its defcent ; — took fire, both of itfelf, as well as by means of the electric fluid it contained ; — produced many explofions ; — melted the pyritical, and metallic, and argillaceous particles, of which the allies... | |
 | Tiberius Cavallo - 1803 - 490 sider
...a moft prodigious " height, became afterwards condenfed in its de" fcent, took fire, both of itfelf as well as by means " of the electric fluid it contained, produced many ** explofions, melted the pyritical, metallic, and ar" gillaceous particles, of which the afhes were... | |
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... of the stones and the attendant manifestation of electrical phenomena are the points common to the various observations. The explanation cited from a Mr. King by Cavallo seems most in accord with Shelley's employment of the phenomenon and also with... 