The calendar of nature; designed for the instruction and entertainment of young persons / [John Aikin].

  • Aikin, John, 1747-1822
Date:
1794
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The calendar of nature; designed for the instruction and entertainment of young persons / [John Aikin]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The heifer lows ; the diifant water-fall Swells in the breeze ; and, with the hafty tread Of' traveller, the hollow-founding plain Shakes from afar. It freezes on, Till morn, late rifmg o’er the drooping world. Lifts her pale eye unjoyous. Then appears The various labour of the filent night : Prone from the dripping eave, and dumb cafcade9 V/hofe idle torrents only feem to roar. The pendant icicle j the froft-work fair. Where tranfient hues and fancy’d figures rife 5 Wide fpouted o’er the hill, the fiozen brook, . A livid tradt, cold gleaming on the morn, Water, when frozen, is expanded; that is, takes i.;p more room than before; hence ice is lighter than water, and fwims upon it. From this caufe 4 if a bottle full of water, hard corked, be fet to freeze, the bottle will be broken, for want of room for the expanfion of the water. Water-pipes often hurft from the fame caufe; and hoops fly oiF from barrels. Nay, even a gun-barrel or a can¬ non, filled with water, and fcrewed up at the muzzle, have been burff in an intenfe frofL The fame property produces a very beneficial efredf: to the hufbandman; for the hard clods of the ploughed fields are loofened and broken to A 5 pieced