IV.—Note on Mr Quilter's Photographs of Mirage

1921 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 33-33
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Main Interest ◽  
The Road ◽  
The North ◽  
North Side ◽  
Different Parts ◽  
As If

In a paper published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (vol. xxxviii, pp. 166–168), Mr Alexander G. Ramage described cases of mirage as seen on the Queensferry Road, near Edinburgh. Similar appearances have been since then observed and reported from different parts of the country, and the photographs of these by Mr G. F. Quilter, Ingatestone, are of some interest. Prints of five photographs taken by Mr Quilter were shown at the meeting of the Society held on 3rd November 1919; four were taken at one place about 100 yards’ distance from where the dry road appeared to be a pool. The camera looked along the road in a direction E.N.E., the road rising slightly towards the position where the mirage was seen. The best photographs, which were taken on 15th June 1919, at 1.30 p.m., showed certain posts on the north side of the road appearing distinctly reflected in the mirage pool. In the fifth photograph, taken at a different locality in August 1919, the shaded side of a telegraph post with neighbouring trees and a white-walled house beyond were distinctly seen as if reflected from a pool in the middle of the road. The main interest lies in the fact that the photographs bring out the phenomenon quite clearly.

XVI.—Mirage on the Queensferry Road

1919 ◽  
Vol 38 ◽  
pp. 166-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander G. Ramage
Keyword(s):  
Sahara Desert ◽  
Clear Water ◽  
The Road ◽  
The North ◽  
White Horse ◽  
The World ◽  
As If ◽  
North End

Most of us who have thought at all of mirage have thought of it as a phenomenon belonging essentially to distant parts of the world, such as the great Sahara Desert. Few of us would not be surprised to find it almost a daily spectacle on a familiar road so near our city.You may imagine my surprise when, in the early days of April of this year, while walking westward along the Queensferry Road, and when opposite the quarry at the north end of Corstorphine Hill near the point at which the Corstorphine Hill road joins the Queensferry Road, I saw on the surface of the road, at a distance of about one and a half the spacing of the telegraph poles (they are about 50 paces apart), what appeared to be pools of clear water reflecting the green grass and foliage very clearly, and further down the road other pools. As I watched, a white horse with a rider went along, and as it passed beyond the “pools” of the mirage water (the road being perfectly dry) it was reflected, with the effect that the horse appeared to be about twice its height, as if on stilts.

scholarly journals Analisis Kelayakan Perubahan fungsi Terminal Penumpang menjadi Fasilitas Parkir Angkutan Barang (Studi Kasus Terminal Terboyo Semarang)

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
Kami Hari Basuki ◽  
Wahyudi Kushardjoko ◽  
Andreana J. G. S. Pratama
Keyword(s):  
Local Area ◽  
Freight Transport ◽  
Heavy Vehicles ◽  
Coverage Area ◽  
Transport Modelling ◽  
The Road ◽  
The North ◽  
North Side ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Regional Basis

Semarang City has public transport terminal at Terboyo. It is unperformance terminal has caused by land subsidden and flood. The aims of this study is determined fisibility of Terboyo freight-transport terminal park at Semarang City. Methodology analysis at this study is improved transport modelling to determine freight-transport demand. Traffic counting survey with Manual Kapasitas Jalan Indonesia (MKJI) 1997 method are used to know the road and intersection performances that closest to Terminal Terboyo. The study results have showed most trucks parked in Kaligawe road and Yos Sudarso road was continuous journey, while trucks parked in Ronggowarsito road was a truck with the origin or destination of Semarang. Potential park fasilities at Terboyo is indicated by the length of the vehicle configuration plan of 8 meters and parking 45° obtained as much as 73 PSU (Parkign Space Unit), while the north side of the field with a length of 18 meters and plan vehicle parking configuration 30° obtained 76 PSU. It has powerfull to accommodate parking of heavy vehicles. This studi has not identified the potential of regional freight-transport. Occutionally, the pattern of movement of freight transport does not occur in the local area only. So, that further studies need to be conducted with respect to the coverage area of study on a regional basis.

IV.—Stratigraphical Note

1907 ◽  
Vol 4 (12) ◽  
pp. 537-538
Author(s):  
T. C. Cantrill
Keyword(s):  
Geological Survey ◽  
The West ◽  
The Road ◽  
The North ◽  
North Side ◽  
The Town

The fossils which Mr. V. M. Turnbull has collected from supposed Slade Beds on the “roadside near St. Martin's Cemetery, Haverfordwest,” were obtained along the north side of a road leading westward from St. Martin'ls Cemetery to Portfield House, on the west aide of the town. About half-way between the Cemetery and Port-field House the road is crossed by a by-road known as Jury Lane; one of the fossiliferous localities lies 110 yards east of Jury Lane crossing, another is 100 to 150 yards west of it. The area in question is contained in the Old Series one-inch Geological Survey map, Sheet 40, the New Series one-inch map, Sheet 228, and in the six-inch map, Pembrokeshire, Sheet 27 N.E.

IX.—An Exposure of Middle and Newer Pleistocene Boulder Clay in Derby

1889 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 224-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. M. Deeley
Keyword(s):  
Main Mass ◽  
The Road ◽  
The North ◽  
North Side ◽  
Boulder Clay

Some very interesting deposits of Pleistocene age have lately been exposed on the Burton Road, Derby. The road rises on the north side of Mill Hill, and near the top, at the height of 260 feet, cuts into a mass of Boulder-clay, which is, or was, well shown in the cuttings for the new roads leading into Byron Street. Another outlier of the same clay is exposed in Littleover Lane to the southwest. The main mass of the deposit cut into on the Burton Road is a red morainic clay with boulders; apparently a subaerial moraine subsequently modified by the passage over it of land ice. Unlike the tough, silty, red and blue aqueous Boulder Clays so plentifully spread over the Midland counties, it shows little or no signs of aqueous action. Sometimes it has a banded or streaked appearance, but this seems to be due rather to a crushing or pressing-out action than to original conditions of deposition.

Prehistoric Human Remains at Little Cornard, Suffolk

1913 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 297-300
Author(s):  
H. Dixon Hewitt
Keyword(s):  
Human Remains ◽  
The Road ◽  
The North ◽  
North Side ◽  
Gravel Pit ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Break Up ◽  
Scientific Value

The discovery which is the subject of these notes was unfortunately rendered incomplete by the fact that the initial exhumation of the bones was not witnessed by me, as I came on the scene after the greater part of the skeleton had been shovelled away by those ignorant of its scientific value.The gravel-pit in which I found the remains appears to be cut into a Plateau gravel, probably of an age corresponding to the break-up of one of the great glaciations. It is situated near, but not on, the summit of an eminence called Kedington Hill, about 2 miles South-by-East of Sudbury Station. The site was once included under the name of Kedington Common, and is on the North side of the road called Kedington Lane.

DESCRIPTION OF A NEW ENGLAND DISTRICT SCHOOL AS IT APPEARED IN 1804

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1974 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-14
Author(s):  
T. E. C.
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
New Hampshire ◽  
Outer Side ◽  
The Road ◽  
The North ◽  
North Side ◽  
The People ◽  
Human Dwelling ◽  
East End ◽  
Very High

The Reverend Warren Burton (1800-1866) of Wilton, New Hampshire described the District School he attended between 1804 and 1817 in these words: The Old School-house, in District No. 5, stood on the top of a very high hill, on the north side of what was called the County road. The house of Capt. Clark, about ten rods off, was the only human dwelling within a quarter of a mile. The reason why this seminary of letters was perched so high in the air, and so far from the homes of those who resorted to it, was this: Here was the center of the district, as near as surveyor's chain could designate. The people east would not permit the building to be carried one rod further west, and those of the opposite quarter were as obstinate on their side. The edifice was set half in Capt. Clay's field, and half in the road. The wood-pile lay in the corner made by the east end and the stone wall.... The doorstep was a broad unhewn rock, brought from the neighboring pasture. It had not a flat and even surface, but was considerably sloping from the door to the road; so that, in icy times, the scholars, in passing out, used to snatch from the scant declivity the transitory pleasure of a slide.... The outer side of the structure was never painted by man; but the clouds of many years had stained it with their own dark hue....

IV.—Woodwardian Laboratory Notes—N. Wales Rocks V

1883 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 65-71
Author(s):  
E. B. Tawney
Keyword(s):  
The North ◽  
North Side ◽  
Different Parts ◽  
Sketch Map ◽  
North End

We may pass next to the Sam Meylltern district, to examine the patch which Dr. Hicks on his sketch-map [Q.J.G.S. vol. xxxv. p. 297] has indicated as Dimetian with a strip of Arvonian along the north side. We read [l.c. p. 300], “Eastward (sic) of this, and as we approach the so-called altered Cambrian, rocks of a more felsitic character come in abruptly, and it is probable that these are of Arvonian age.” At the north end of the patch, by the Cromlech and Amwlch Lodge, the rock is however of the type which Dr. Hicks has termed Dimetian, and as it varies much in character at different parts of its course, I think we must ask for further proof that there is a second bed of rock of different age, in this area.

scholarly journals Temporal Variations in Chemical Composition of Snow Cover in Moscow

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 148-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irina D. Eremina ◽  
Jessica Yu. Vasil’chuk
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Composition ◽  
Major Ions ◽  
Temporal Variations ◽  
Snow Melting ◽  
The Road ◽  
Seasonal Snow ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Snow Precipitation ◽  
Different Parts

This article summarizes the data of the chemical composition and the acidity of the seasonal snow precipitation for the cold periods 1999-2006 (n=180), 2010-2013 (n=82) and 2018-2019 (n=18) in different parts of Moscow. Major ions content was measured, such as SO42-, НСO3-, Cl-, NO3-, Са2+, Mg2+, Na+, K+ and NH4+, also pH and sum of ions (mg/L) were measured. During the 2018-2019 season, snowpack samples were taken twice at 4 sites in Moscow: two in the North-East Administrative Okrug (NEAO) near the road and in the park at the distance of 3 km from each other, and two in the South- Western Administrative Okrug (SWAO) and in the Western Administrative Okrug (WAO) near the road and in the park at the distance of 6 km from each other. Samples were taken with a break of 5 days to determine the dynamics of the chemical composition within the beginning of the snow-melting. In each pair of sampling sites there was one that is located in the park and one located near the road. This experiment showed a slight variability of the chemical composition of snow during 5 days under the influence of the new snowfall. In general, there is a trend of changing the composition of snow from calcium carbonate to calcium chloride, which is mainly connected to the use of anti-icing reagents; for the same reason, the areas that are closer to the roads are the most polluted.

Contributions to terrestrial magnetism. No. VII

1851 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 622-623
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Magnetic Force ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
American Continent ◽  
Terrestrial Magnetism ◽  
North American Continent ◽  
The North ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Broad Outline ◽  
Different Parts

From the discovery which was made of the non-coincidence of the locality of the maximum magnetic intensity, within the Arctic circle, with that in which the magnetic direction is vertical, it followed that the generally prevailing opinions respecting the distribution of magnetic force at the surface of the earth were erroneous, and that even the broad outline of the picture of terrestrial magnetism required to be recast. For the purpose of obtaining sufficiently copious and accurate materials, by means of which so desirable an object could be accomplished, the British Association for the Advancement of Science requested, in the year 1835, a report to be prepared, in which the state of our knowledge, collected from a great variety of sources, with regard to the variations of the magnetic force at different parts of the earth’s surface, should be reviewed, and properly discussed, and suggestions offered as to the best means of extending the inquiry. In the report so obtained, it was recommended that magnetic surveys of that portion of the North American Continent, which is comprised within certain iso-dynamic lines, should be procured. The present paper contains the results of an expedition towards the accomplishment of this object, recommended by the President and Council of the Royal Society to be undertaken under the auspices and with the assistance of the Hudson’s Bay Company. Lieutenant Lefroy, of the Royal Artillery, who had received an appointment to the Toronto Observatory with a special view to this survey, was entrusted with the conduct of an expedition in conformity with that recommendation. The author gives a circumstantial narrative of the expedition, together with minute details of the instruments employed, and the methods of observation adopted; and extensive tables of the observations themselves, both as regards intensity and inclination, at the different stations where they were made, occupying altogether about 120 folio pages of manuscript.

scholarly journals XVI.—The Rostra and the Graecostasis, with the Umbilicus Romae and the Milliarium Aureum

Archaeologia ◽  
1886 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 424-433
Author(s):  
John Henry Middleton
Keyword(s):  
Strong Evidence ◽  
The Road ◽  
The North ◽  
North Side ◽  
The Church ◽  
Interesting Structure

The recent removal of the road which ran across the Forum Romanum by the Arch of Severus has at last brought to light the whole of the existing remains of the Rostra, and finally settled the oft-disputed question as to the size and form of this historically most interesting structure. The original Rostra stood on a different site; they were on the north side of the Forum Romanum, and were constructed the Comitium, which was a paved area in front of the Curia, probably surrounded by a rail or low screen. There is very strong evidence to show that the church of St. Adriano is the Curia as it was finally rebuilt by Diocletian; the brick-facing of the front of this building, with its enriched mouldings of fine hard stucco (opus albarium), is clearly work of the time of Diocletian; even in minute details it corresponds with certain parts of the Thermae of that emperor. The Comitium then must have been in the space between St. Adriano and the Arch of Severus—now occupied by a modern road, which buries the original level to the depth of about twenty feet. It appears to have been a paved area, not raised above the Forum but a few steps below it.

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