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Bertrand supposed that electrified clouds might locally attract and elevate the waters of the lake, and thus produce oscillations of level. H.B. de Saussure, in 1799, attributed the phenomenon to rapid local variations of atmospheric pressure on different parts of the lake. J.P.E. Vaucher, in 1802 and 1804, adopted de Saussure's explanation, and confirmed it by many excellent observations.
Randolph, Daisy thinks too much." "It is an old weakness of hers," said papa. "I am afraid it is beyond our reach, Felicia." "I will break it up for to-day," said mamma as the carriage stopped and Mr. De Saussure came to the steps. "Charles, Daisy has got into a brown study. I give her to you in charge, not to allow anything of the sort again till we get home. And order luncheon at once, will you.
On the 27th, the day after we evacuated the place, Lieutenant-colonel Wilmot G. De Saussure arrived at Fort Moultrie, at 9 P.M., with his battalion of Charleston artillery and thirty riflemen; in all, one hundred and seventy men. They were looking out for mines in all directions, and had brought ladders with them, on the supposition that there might be torpedoes in front of the main gates.
"I think you must be mistaken." "Will you try, Daisy?" he said insinuatingly, and stopping short in our walk. "Try what, Mr. De Saussure?" I said, beginning to be bewildered. "Surely you know! You are a little cruel. But you have the right. Be my Mentor be my darling promise to be, one of these days, my wife." I dropped my arm from Mr.
I looked to see Ransom and Mr. De Saussure, but they were not in sight. "You are not speaking in jest," I said; "and I have no business to speak in earnest." "You never speak any other way," he rejoined. "Tell me your mind. You are never violent; do you feel as Mrs. Randolph does about it? Would you like me better if I went heart and soul into the fray at home?"
It was now the year 1804, and the Russian Academy had determined on attempting an examination of the physical condition of the higher atmosphere by means of the balloon. The idea had probably been suggested by scientific observations which had already been made on mountain heights by such explorers as De Luc, Saussure, Humboldt, and others.
M. de Saussure found some singular masses, which attracted his attention, in examining the structure of the rocks on the left side of this little valley. Like a true philosopher, and accurate naturalist, he desired to compare what was to be observed in the other side of this valley of the Rhône, which he had found so singular and so interesting on that which he had examined.
M. de Saussure has given us an observation of this kind, in describing the mountains through which the Rhône has made its way out of the Alps, at the bottom of the Vallée.
Then I had great twinges of heart, which I thought it wise to keep to myself as closely as possible. I remember well the twinge I had, when one evening early in September De Saussure came in, the utmost glee expressed in his eyes and manner, and announced his news thus; "They have had a battle at Springfield, and Lyon is killed." "Who is Lyon?" I could not help asking, though it was incautious.
At the Tour de Fols, near St Bernard, M. de Saussure found an appearance the most distinct of its kind, and worthy to be recorded as a leading fact in matters of geology. Voyages dans les Alpes, Tome 2d. pag. 454.
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