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No part of the lunar globe became visible in relief against circumfluous solar radiance on any of the plates exposed at Grenada; and what vestiges of "structure" there were, came out almost better _upon_ the moon than _beside_ her, thus stamping themselves at once as of atmospheric origin.

A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition 1874

Even in Milton, though the great poet rejected the earlier idea of a solid firmament, we find prominence given to that of a vast hollow sphere of "circumfluous waters," which, by encircling the atmosphere, kept aloof the "fierce extremes of chaos."

The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Hugh Miller 1829

When I looked at the insular P----, and his active rod, I thought him like to Archimedes who had found his extramundane spot of ground, and, as he threw the fly, and bent his back to let it touch the water lightly, was endeavouring to fasten his lever to the base of the adjacent mountain in order to consummate his wish of raising the world; and the circumfluous R---- with his long tackle, that hissed when he cast it with the petulance of an angry switch, appeared an ocean god, who had selected a shorter route to the North Cape by the

A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition William A. Ross

The waters underneath from thofc above Dividing: for as Earth, fo he the world Built on circumfluous waters calm, in wide Chi iftallin ocean, and the loud mifrule Of Chao) far rcmovM, Icfl fierce extremes Contiguous might diAempcr the whole frame;

A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain.. 1795