Passed tense of many words twofold, as driven or drove, spoken or spoke.
A poetic licence 609
CANTO III.
Clouds consist of aqueous spheres, which do not easily unite, like globules of quicksilver, as may be seen in riding through water. Owing to electricity. Snow. Hailstones rounded by attrition and dissolution of their angles. Not from frozen drops of water 15
Dew on points and edges of grass, or hangs over cabbage-leaves, needle floats on water 18
Mists over rivers and on mountains. Halo round the moon. Shadow of a church-steeple upon a mist. Dry mist, or want of transparency of the air, a sign of fair-weather 20
Tides on both sides of the earth. Moon's tides should be much greater than the earth's tides. The ocean of the moon is frozen 61
Spiral form of shells saves calcareous matter. Serves them as an organ of hearing. Calcareous matter produced from inflamed membranes. Colours of shells, labradore-stone from mother-pearl. Fossil shells not now found recent 66
Sea-insects like flowers. Actinia 82
Production of pearls, not a disease of the fish. Crab's eyes. Reservoirs of pearly matter 84
Rocks of coral in the south-sea. Coralloid limestone at Linsel, and
Coalbrook Dale 90