 | Neil Arnott - 1853 - 536 Seiten
...attached constantly to their necks, BO that, in their frequent falls overboard, they are not in danger. Life-boats have a large quantity of cork mixed in...water, a considerable part still floats above the general surface. Swimming is much easier to quadrupeds than to man, because the ordinary motion of... | |
 | Neil Arnott - 1856 - 526 Seiten
...attached constantly to their necks, so that, in their frequent falls overboard, they are not in danger. Life-boats have a large quantity of cork mixed in...water, a considerable part still floats above the general surface. Swimming is much easier to quadrupeds than to man, because the ordinary motion of... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - 1858 - 468 Seiten
...their diminished weight. On the same principle, the limbs feel very heavy on leaving a bath. Life boats have a large quantity of cork mixed in their structure,...considerable part still floats above the surface. 197. The magnitudes of bodies may frequently be most conveniently and accurately estimated from the... | |
 | A. H. W., Facts - 1873 - 478 Seiten
...quantity of cork mixed in their structure, or, if air-tight vessels, of thin copper or tin plates, so that even when the boats are filled with water a considerable part still floats above the general surface. Light. — The consideration of the laws of light as to its refrangibility, its reflection,... | |
 | Neil Arnott - 1877 - 916 Seiten
...constantly attached to their necks, so that in their frequent falls overboard they are not in danger. Life-boats have a large quantity of cork mixed in...the boats are filled with water, a considerable part floats above the general surface. Swimming is much easier to quadrupeds than to man, because the natural... | |
 | Neil Arnott - 1879 - 916 Seiten
...constantly attached to their necks, so that in their frequent falls overboard they arc not in danger. Life-boats have a large quantity of cork mixed in...copper or tin plate ; so that, even when the boats arc filled with water, a considerable part floats above the general surface. Swimming is much easier... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - 1854 - 470 Seiten
...their diminished weight. On the same principle. the limbs feel very heavy on leaving a bath. Life boats have a large quantity of cork mixed in their structure, or of air tight vessels of thin copper or tin plate. so that. even when the boats are filled with water,... | |
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... to their necks, so that in their frequent falls overboard, they are not in danger. Life-boats have a large quantity of cork mixed in their structure, or of air-tight vessels of thin copper or tin plate; so that, even when the boats are filled with... 
