AN ENQUIRY.
To the Editor op the Nelson Evening Mail. Sir, — In your's of last evening, you notice a most interesting phenomenon, in connection with the Moon. I wish you could have given its exact position, because in that case, with somewhat inferior glasses, we might perhaps, have managed to get sight of it. That a second Tongariro is in action, so far away from U3, and that a crevice of considerable extent in the Moon's surface is to be seen, together with the intelligence that the clouds of smoke from the volcano are clearly visible, have set me a thinking. It has loug been contended by many scientific gentlemen that the Moon is utterly destitute of an atmosphere, and on this hypothesis I have long been puzzled how to account for the brilliant reflection of the Sun's rays thrown back or dowu to us from the Moon. Now Sir, j what I am anxious to know, not being a scientific maa, is, whether fire can burn in a vacuum, or smoke rise where there is no atmosphere. If any scientific gentleman can solve this problem he wili greatly oblige. Yours &c., Enquirer. Nelson, Sept. 9th, 1870.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 214, 10 September 1870, Page 2
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197AN ENQUIRY. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 214, 10 September 1870, Page 2
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