He shall approach all facing points with caution, especially after dark, and shall see that his train is well under control in descending inclines, particularly the gradient by the Eaton cricket ground.
In all cases trains have to stop dead on a rising gradient of 1 in 100 before crossing the high road one mile from Balderton.
The long gradient up to Eaton was run at just under 10 miles per hour, the steam blowing off freely with injector full on and damper three-quarters closed nearly all the last mile-and-a-half.
Owing to the steep gradient before alluded to, it was impossible to get a fixed size of nozzle that would keep up steam with a light load on the level, without being so contracted as to lift the fire off the bars on the incline.
And you may understand what the effect of that gradient of face would be--to emphasize and aggravate every sin of heeling or toeing to which golfing flesh is heir.
On an ascending gradient of 1 in 450, the engine succeeded in drawing after it eight loaded carriages of thirty tons' weight at about four miles an hour; and for some time after it continued regularly at work.
The gradient from the headwaters to Quenemo is more than five feet per mile, from Quenemo to Osawatomie 1.
Upstream from its confluence with Cottonwood River, the Neosho River has an averagegradient of 15 feet per mile.
The gradient lessens rapidly below the mouth of the Cottonwood, averaging 1.
If, however, there are hills between the city and the source of supply, subterranean channels must be dug, and brought to a level at the gradient mentioned above.
As the air flowed northwards over Adelie Land to the sea, it would rise slowly in temperature owing to the increased barometric pressure consequent on the descending gradientof the plateau.
The temperature gradient from the surface downwards appeared to give some indication of the depth of ice submerged in the glacier-tongue alongside which we were lying.
This was on ice, and the gradient was about one in fifteen.
At five and a half miles the brow of the main rise was reached, and the gradient became much flatter beyond it.
This ridge had a gradient of one in ten, and, unfortunately, also sloped down towards one of the open crevasses.
Both sledges ran easily for nearly a mile over neve, when the gradient increased to one in ten, forcing us to relay.
We knew that for the first three miles there was a rise of some one thousand four hundred feet, and in places the gradient was one in three and a half.
Above this stratum the ice is free from foreign matter and rises steeply to several hundred feet, after which the ascendinggradient is reduced.
If this were so, then, as can be shown without difficulty, the attainment of the present gradient would be very greatly retarded, and therefore the age of the earth correspondingly increased.
Thus we get finally a flow of heat across unit area of the slab which is equal to the gradient of temperature multiplied by a number which depends on the material: that number is called the "conductivity" of the substance.
The whole amount of heat arriving would be the same: the amount received per unit area at any point on the sphere would evidently be proportional to the gradient of temperature there towards the surface.
Moreover, comparing the flow in one substance with the flow in another, we find it different in different substances for the same gradient of temperature.
But, as Thomson showed, such a large gradient would not lead to any sensible augmentation of the surface temperature, for "the radiation from earth and atmosphere into space would almost certainly be so rapid" as to prevent this.
This gradient of diminution of temperature outwards leads inevitably to the conclusion that heat must be constantly flowing from the interior of the earth towards the surface.
In other words, it is proportional to the fall of temperature from one face to the other taken per unit of the thickness, that is, to the "gradient of temperature" from one face to the other.
A greater interval of time would give a lower gradient, a smaller interval would give a higher gradient than that which exists at present.
Meantime it was with increasing, overflowing joy that Marie took part in that radiant ascent, by the colossal gradient way, towards the glowing Basilica.
It was the cross of the four-o'clock procession, a little behind time that day, appearing from beneath one of the arches of the monumental gradient way.
She had told him of her joy while dragging her car up the colossalgradient way.
A double file of quivering stars leapt into view on the left-hand side of the Basilica, and then followed the monumental, gradient way, whose curve is gradually described.
Guersaint had risen to his feet again on seeing some specks of light shine out above the gradient ways on the left side of the Basilica.
Those costly, colossal gradient ways had only been erected in order to avoid compliance with the Virgin's express desire that the faithful should come to the Grotto in procession.
The main stream flows with a gentle gradient to the coast about ten miles away.
In this uncertainty we can only appeal to the contrast between the gentle gradient of the north slopes and the precipitous descent of the south slopes as favouring the last supposition.
The valley has such a gentle gradient that one can follow it inland for five or six miles from the estuary to the vicinity of Nukumbolo without exceeding an elevation of 100 feet above the sea.
So small is the gradient that the river flowing down it can be ascended in boats for some miles; whilst Ngele-mumu, a village situated between 5 and 6 miles up the valley, is not much over 50 feet above the sea.
A long valley with a very smallgradient extends nearly across its breadth; and the rivers are for the most part tidal estuaries fed, except in one or two cases, by insignificant streams.
I'd grasped, And to Miss Gradient had been talking fast.
Their gradient is commonly greater than that of the present rivers.
In the Grand Canyon its gradient is seven and one half feet to the mile, but, as in all ungraded rivers, the descent is far from uniform.
In either case the stream continues aggrading or degrading until a new gradient is found where the velocity is just sufficient to move the load, and here again it reaches grade.
It is compelled to maintain a gradient of eight feet to the mile in western Nebraska.
Draw longitudinal profile of b, showing the different gradient of upper and lower portions of its course not here seen.
The rapids thus formed are also ephemeral, for as the gradient of the tributaries is lowered the main stream becomes able to handle the smaller and finer load which they discharge.
A river actively engaged in aggrading its valley with coarse waste builds a flood plain of comparatively steep gradient and often flows down it in a fairly direct course and through a network of braided channels.
For some particular gradient it will be perfect; on a steeper gradient the treadles will be further in advance, but with a steeper gradient the rider should be more over the front of the treadles.
Just as there exists a latitudinal gradient in the ecological stability of the ecosystems involved, available knowledge of these ecosystems is in inverse relationship to the latitude at which they occur.
Although this is a discussion of "northern" marine birds, it is important to remember that we are considering a diverse avifauna existing in an environmental gradient from temperate to polar regions.
The gradient became more gentle, and where we encamped we could scarcely perceive in which direction the valley sloped.
The gradient became steeper and the scenery assumed more of an alpine character.
So far as possible, continuous records of the electric potential gradient in the atmosphere were taken, a form of quadrant electrometer with a boom and ink recorder, made by the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company, being employed.
We descended slowly at first, cutting steps in the snow; then the surface became softer, indicating that the gradient was less severe.
A steep gradient of blue ice was the next obstacle.
He was half-way up a steep incline; the second train was rushing with wholly reckless speed down a steep straight gradient on which Jack, no longer fearing pursuit, had thought it desirable to clap on the brakes.
As he watched it, the smoke ceased; the train must have stopped, for the gradient was rising.
In passing Bozeman Summit of the Belt Range, and in going up the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains, it may be found advisable to adopt a somewhat higher gradientfor a few miles in overcoming those summits.
From the explorations and surveys already made by the engineers, it is believed that there need be no gradient exceeding sixty feet per mile between Lake Superior and the Pacific Ocean.
The potential gradient is in all cases lower in summer than winter, and thus the reduction in c1 in summer would appear even larger than in Table V.
With a view to this, it has become increasingly common of late years to publish not the voltages actually observed, but values deduced from them for the potentialgradient in the open in volts per metre.
Lenard, Elster and Geitel, and others have found the potential gradient negative near waterfalls, the influence sometimes extending to a considerable distance.
The potential difference between the two is recorded, and the potential gradient is thus found.
The two last curves in the diagram contrast the diurnal variation at Kew in potential gradientand in barometric pressure for the year as a whole.
In some localities, however, negative potential gradient is by no means uncommon, at least at some seasons, in the absence of rain.
No distinct relationship has yet been established between potential gradient and radioactivity.
The potential gradient near the ground varies with the season of the year and the hour of the day, and is largely dependent on the weather conditions.
In the north the conditions are much more disturbed than in the south, especially in the summer, the mean potentialgradient being higher at Kew than at Eskdalemuir.
The potential gradient is much the same over the sea as over the land, but the radio-activity is smaller, and the specific conductivity greater, on water than on land.
About 13 miles from Lucca is the curious bridge of the Maddalena, consisting of four arches, the arch next the village of Borgo being disproportionately large, and with a gradient from the bank to the centre of 60°.
The profile of the valley at this stage would be much the same as that in the preceding, except that the gradient in the lower portion would be lower.
Furthermore, the water is still active as a solvent agent after a surface has been reduced to so low a gradient that the run-off ceases to erode mechanically.
Up stream from that point, a gentle gradient will be established over which the water will flow without cutting.
Where the stream crosses from the harder to the less hard, the gradientis likely to become steep, and a rapids is formed.
A small stream in a similar situation would have ceased to lower its channel before so low a gradient was reached.
The normal profile of a valley bottom in a non-mountainous region is a gentle curve, concave upward with gradient increasing from debouchure to source.
With continued flow the bed of the rapids becomes less and less steep, until it is finally reduced to the normal gradient of the stream (h e), when the rapids disappear.
Just below a (profile a b) the gradienthas become so steep that there are rapids.
Under these conditions, erosion is rapid just beyond the crossing of the hard layer, and the gradient becomes higher and higher.
