 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Art - 1845 - 900 pages
..."hence," says he, " our potatoes, after remaining for some hours in the boiling water, were nearlv as hard as ever. The pot was left on the fire all...boiled again ; but yet the potatoes were not cooked. I found out this by overhearing my two companions discussing the cause : thev had come to the simple... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Beagle Expedition - 1846 - 716 pages
...the case being the converse of that of a Papin's digester. Hence the potatoes, after remaining for some hours in the boiling water, were nearly as hard...boiled again, but yet the potatoes were not cooked. I found out this by overhearing my two companions discussing the cause : they had come to the simple... | |
 | David Purdie Thomson - Meteorology - 1849 - 516 pages
...Andes. The altitude was so great, and the boiling point so low, that " our potatoes, after remaining for some hours in the boiling water, were nearly as hard...boiled again ; but yet the potatoes were not cooked. I found out this, by overhearing my two companions discussing the cause ; they had come to the simple... | |
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1850 - 550 pages
...to the heat and not to the fact of boiling. " Our potatoes," says Mr. Darwin, " after remaining for some hours in the boiling water, were nearly as hard...boiled again ; but yet the potatoes were not cooked. I found out this by overhearing my two companions discussing the cause ; they had come to the simple... | |
 | Robert Ellis (F.L.S.) - 1850 - 548 pages
...of this nature; he was at that time travelling in the Andes:—" Our potatoes, after remaining for some hours in the boiling water, were nearly as hard...boiled again, but yet the potatoes were not cooked. I found out this by overhearing my two companions discussing the cause; they had come to the simple... | |
 | Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1862 - 392 pages
...anecdote of this nature. He was travelh'ng in the Andes. " Our potatoes," says he, " after remaining for some hours in the boiling water, were nearly as hard...boiled again, but yet the potatoes were not cooked. I found out this by overhearing my two companions discussing the cause. They had come to the conclusion... | |
 | Georg Hartwig - Aeronautics - 1875 - 610 pages
...diminished pressure which happened to him while crossing the Andes. ' The potatoes, after remaining for some hours in the boiling water, were nearly as hard...boiled again, but yet the potatoes were not cooked. I found out this, by overhearing my two companions discussing the cause ; they had come to the simple... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Beagle Expedition - 1876 - 586 pages
...digester. Hence the potatoes, after remaining for some hours in the boiling water, were nearly as hard a* ever. The pot was left on the fire all night, and...boiled again, but yet the potatoes were not cooked. I found out this, by overhearing my two companions discussing the cause ; they had come to the simple... | |
 | Robert Ellis (M.R.C.S.) - Atmosphere - 1880 - 358 pages
...nature ;- he was at that time travelling in the Andes : " Our potatoes, after remaining for some time in the boiling water, were nearly as hard as ever....boiled again ; but yet the potatoes were not cooked. I found out this by overhearing my two companions discussing the cause ; they had come to the simple... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Beagle Expedition - 1889 - 628 pages
...the case being the converse of that of a Papin's digester. Hence the potatoes, after remaining for some hours in the boiling water, were nearly as hard...boiled again, but yet the potatoes were not cooked. I found out this by overhearing my two companions discussing the cause : they had come to the simple... | |
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Hence the potatoes, after remaining for some hours in the boiling water, were nearly as hard as ever. The pot was left on the fire all night, and next morning it was boiled again, but yet the potatoes were not cooked. I found out this by overhearing my... 
