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Excerpt from A Rudimentary Treatise on Warming and Ventilation: Being a Concise Exposition of the General Principles of the Art of Warming and Ventilating Domestic and Public Buildings, Mines, Lighthouses, Ships, Etc
AN inquiry into the constitution and uses of our atmosphere in the economy of nature and art, is calculated to promote a solemn feeling of admiration and gratitude. This wonderful creation encloses within its capacious curves, like a vast dome, the widely extended kingdoms of nature, to which it ministers materials for growth, health, and enjoyment, and by its trans patency reveals to intelligent beings a glimpse of other crea tions beyond its limits. At one time, it stands in simple grandeur as a vault of tender blue, displaying the glorious sun and the landscape smiling beneath at another time, its sur face is chequered with ?eecy clouds, the beauteous sem blance of a ?ock at rest, - or alpine heights of more than silvery brightness, or huge piled-up masses, dark and frown ing all contributing to form wondrous variety and beauty in the aerial scenery, and giving to the landscape below the ever varying charms of light and shade. Again, the blue of this splendid ceiling becomes deeper and deeper, and bright golden points shine out here and there, increasing in number until the whole surface appears as if richly studded with gems.
If these great and glorious sights were of rare occurrence, or could only be witnessed from a few chosen spots on the earth's surface, they would stimulate our curiosity, and we should eagerly hasten to those spots, or read the descriptions and gaze at the pictures which travellers and artists huh.
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