 | James Hutchison Stirling - Evolution - 1894 - 392 pages
...at a lower temperature than it does in a less lofty country. 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... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Science - 1896 - 542 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... | |
 | George Frederick Chambers - Meteorology - 1897 - 248 pages
...different at different altitudes. They had attained so great an altitude, and the boiling point was so low, that " our potatoes, after remaining some...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 - 1908 - 542 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... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 574 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... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Beagle Expedition - 1909 - 564 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... | |
 | Charles Darwin, Robert Fitzroy - Nature - 1979 - 438 pages
...boils at a lower temperature; in consequence of this the potatoes after boiling for some hours were as hard as ever ; the pot was left on the fire all night, but yet the potatoes were not softened. l found out this, by overhearing in the morning my companions... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Nature - 2001 - 504 pages
...boils at a lower temperature; in consequence of this the potatoes after boiling for some hours were as hard as ever; the pot was left on the fire all night, but yet the potatoes were not softened. I found out this, by overhearing in the morning my companions... | |
 | Ian Strangeways - Nature - 2003 - 548 pages
...lower temperature than it does in a less lofty country . . . 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. Charles Darwin Voyage of the Beagle (high in the Andes). The variables and their history For use in... | |
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1850 - 540 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... | |
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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... 
