As the depth of rain-fall diminishes in advancing north to the higher parts of the meridional ranges, so does that of the snow-fall.
The lower rugged outline represents one meridional ridge, with all its most prominent peaks (whether exactly or not on the line of section); the upper represents the parallel ridge of Singalelah (D.
These meridionalranges approximate to the southward, so as to form a natural boundary to Choombi.
Figures 9 and 10 are meridional and diagonal sections, showing ratios of Cheops, viz.
A meridional observation was obtained in latitude 67 degrees 10 minutes N.
Its latitude was ascertained by meridional observations to be 68 degrees 58 minutes N.
We had no meridional observations, because the sky was obscured.
I had already in mind the furnishing of our meridional instruments with greater optical powers.
The position of the free Meridional Magnet (now mounted in the Magnetic Observatory) was observed at every 5 m.
As I have stated above, an improvement might yet be made in our Transit Circle; nevertheless I do not hesitate to express my belief that no other existing meridional instrument can be compared with it.
For the proper testing of the rates of the chronometers, a rating of the chronometers for three or four days in a meridional observatory is necessary.
The results of the observations appear very good; perhaps a little, and but a little, inferior to those of the Meridional Instruments.
Moon's Orbit from Meridional Observations of the Moon.
The Report concludes thus: 'With regard to the direction of our labours, I trust that I shall always be supported by the Visitors in my desire to maintain the fundamental and meridional system of the Observatory absolutely intact.
The following passage is quoted from the Report to the Visitors:--'As regards Meridional Astronomy our equipment may now be considered complete.
By a happy instinct, their wooden houses are all painted white, to a marble effect that suits our meridional sky, and the contrast of their dark-green shutters is deliciously refreshing.
As in the measurement of the Meridional arc, the only course to adopt was to cover the whole extent of the country with a network of triangles.
I stated that there was an extent of country between a meridional line passing through Nacogdoches and Rio Bravo, of four or five hundred miles in width, which the United States had claimed as being their property.
As the United States have settled a provisional line, to wit: a meridional line through Nacogdoches, it should not be in the power of the new State to extend its jurisdiction beyond that line.
As I did not intend running farther than Sunday Island for my next anchorage we did not weigh the following day until we had visited the island and obtained a meridional altitude for its latitude and sights for the time-keeper.
Between Port Essington and Cape Van Diemen we steered so as to see several parts of the coast of Melville Island in order to compare their relative meridional distances with those of last year's survey.
The following morning we sailed and steered for Whitsunday Passage; a little before noon, I landed with Mr. Roe and Mr. Cunningham in a small bight round the north side of Cape Conway, for a meridional observation and bearings.
You are an exaggerated being, a meridional who enlarges everything and lies about everything, believing all his own lies.
He was convinced that it would be impossible to carry it through, but it was a momentary consolation to his meridional character predisposed to the most bloody revenge.
And with his ardent, meridional exuberance, he embraced her and lifted her up, patting the loosened ringlets on her forehead, petting her like a sick child, and drinking in her tears with interminable kisses.
On this globe an equatorial and a meridional ocean divide our earth into four quarters, each inhabited, thus anticipating the discovery of North and South America and Australia.
It consists of at least three ridges of clay running from north to south, and each containing one or more meridional walls of quartz.
We may also observe that all the great mineral chains of the old and new world are meridional rather than longitudinal, striking from north-east to south-west.
The Meridional department, commanding the Transit route, was the point at whose acquisition he steadily aimed.
Accordingly, on the 23rd of August the Vesta sailed once more for the Meridional department, and arrived at San Juan del Sur on the 29th.
Orders were given them at once to proceed by water to Rivas, in the Meridional department, which was held by the enemy.
Grand Meridional Arc of India, as detailed by Lieut.
The geodetical labours of Sir George Everest rank among the finest achievements of their kind; and more especially his measurement of the meridional arc of India, 11-1/2 deg.
Should we be successful, and be able to complete this exceedingly important meridionaltraverse through an unknown part of Tibet?
Instead of a clearly marked meridional range we found an open, hilly, longitudinal valley with the watershed running among its moraines.
We might have attempted to make an excursion in that direction, but it was more important to complete the meridional line while the country was still open to us.
Currents of air, which set out in a meridional direction from high latitudes towards the equator, come from regions where the velocity due to rotation is small to where it is greater, and they consequently fall behind.
A more direct effect of terrestrial rotation has been claimed in the case of rivers which flow in a meridional direction.
The first star on passing the central meridional wire is bisected by the micrometer; then the telescope is rotated very carefully through 180 deg.
Alpha Centauri shone down the smaller ascending passage in southing, the Pleiades were about 58° only above the horizon when southing, and therefore even more favourably observable from the great meridional gallery.
The diversity of width which I have indicated as a desirable feature in a meridional gallery, is a marked feature of the actual gallery.
Moreover, the farther upwards an ascending passage was carried, along which the reflected visual rays could pass, the more perfect would be the adjustment of this meridional plane.
For if the passage had only given the meridian plane, but without permitting the astronomer to observe the southing of any fixed star, it would have subserved only one-half its purposes as a meridional instrument.
The most difficult part to understand are the meridional contrasts.
This appears from the frequent meridional and latitudinal diversities and contrasts, to which allusion has been made.
At any other time hermeridional accent, her childish exaggeration of emphasis, and southerner's excess of gesture, would have incurred the ridicule of her hypercritical auditor.
She had something of meridional heedlessness, and much of meridional imagination, which made the fiction of her grandsire's legacy more easily believed by her than it would have been by more prosaic and cautious tempers.
