Directions for ensuring Personal Safety during storms of Thunder and
Lightning; and for the right application of Conductors to Houses and
other Buildings. By JOHN LEIGH, Esq. Third Edition. With the
Instructions of the Humane Society.
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storms."--_Monthly Review, May 1._
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WHAT IS A COMET, PAPA? or, a familiar Description of Comets; more
particularly HALLEY'S COMET. To which is prefixed, a CONCISE
ACCOUNT OF THE OTHER HEAVENLY BODIES. By ROSINA MARIA ZORNLIN.
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Astronomy to his sisters, while they are waiting the return of
their parents: the second part is papa's own account of the passing
Comet, in answer to the question which forms the title. Both are
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THE SOLAR ECLIPSE; or, The Two Almanacs; containing more Inquiries in
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