An attempt to develop the law of storms ... and hence to point out a cause of the variable winds1838 - 436 sivua |
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... appearance when viewed at a distance , as it seems like a stream of water ascending ; but when closely approached , the dangerous appearance CHAP . partly vanishes . I have passed close to INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER . 9.
... appearance when viewed at a distance , as it seems like a stream of water ascending ; but when closely approached , the dangerous appearance CHAP . partly vanishes . I have passed close to INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER . 9.
Sivu 10
... appearance , like a column of water when viewed at a distance , or resembling a hollow glass tube . In calm weather waterspouts generally have a perpen- dicular direction ; but occasionally also they have an oblique or curved direction ...
... appearance , like a column of water when viewed at a distance , or resembling a hollow glass tube . In calm weather waterspouts generally have a perpen- dicular direction ; but occasionally also they have an oblique or curved direction ...
Sivu 21
... appearance in the south . During the day the wind was light and at south- east , at night it shifted to south - south - west . " On the 16th it was a fresh wholesome breeze ; so that with the help of the Gulf - stream we ran at a great ...
... appearance in the south . During the day the wind was light and at south- east , at night it shifted to south - south - west . " On the 16th it was a fresh wholesome breeze ; so that with the help of the Gulf - stream we ran at a great ...
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... appearance , that he had never seen any so alarming during his long residence in the tropics ; and he described it as appearing of an olive - green colour . In expecta- tion of terrific weather , he hastened home to nail up his ...
... appearance , that he had never seen any so alarming during his long residence in the tropics ; and he described it as appearing of an olive - green colour . In expecta- tion of terrific weather , he hastened home to nail up his ...
Sivu 29
... appearance of this phenomenon , the deafening noise of the wind sank to a solemn murmur , or , more correctly expressed , a distant roar , and the lightning , which from midnight had flashed and darted forkedly with few and but ...
... appearance of this phenomenon , the deafening noise of the wind sank to a solemn murmur , or , more correctly expressed , a distant roar , and the lightning , which from midnight had flashed and darted forkedly with few and but ...
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An Attempt to Develop the Law of Storms ... and Hence to Point Out a Cause ... William Reid, JR Esikatselu ei käytettävissä - 2016 |
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anchor August August 18 August 21 Barbadoes barometer blew blowing bolt-rope bowsprit breezes and cloudy breezes and squally brig calm Cape Captain CHAP close-reefed cloudy weather deck dismasted distance Ditto weather East eastward Extract fore fore-topsail foresail Fresh gales gales and cloudy gales and squally Hard gales hard squalls heavy gale heavy rain heavy sea heavy squalls Hour hurricane Island Jamaica K. F. Courses larboard latitude leagues Light airs Light breezes Log of H.M.S. longitude main-topsail mainsail March March 15 Martinique masts Mauritius Midnight miles mizen Moderate breezes Noon north-east north-west observed October October 16 overboard P. M. Fresh breezes P. M. Light P. M. Moderate P. M. Strong Port Louis pumps reefed Remarks rigging sail south-east south-west staysail storm Strong breezes Strong gales swell sympiesometer Ther Thursday top-gallant topsail trysail Variable vessel VIII violent waterspout Wednesday West wore ship wreck yards СНАР
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Sivu 31 - The whole face of the country was laid waste ; no sign of vegetation was apparent, except here and there small patches of a sickly green. The surface of the ground appeared as if fire had run through the land, scorching and burning up the productions of the earth. The few remaining trees, stripped of their boughs and foliage, wore a cold and wintry aspect ; and the numerous seats in the environs of Bridgetown, formerly concealed amid thick groves, were now exposed and in ruins.
Sivu 404 - Again they would retreat so as to be almost out of sight, their tops reaching to the very clouds. There the tops often separated from the bodies, and these, once disjoined, dispersed in the air, and did not appear more. Sometimes they were broken near the middle, as if struck with a large cannon shot.
Sivu 404 - NW of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand at different distances, at times moving with great celerity, at others stalking on with a majestic slowness; at intervals we thought they were coming in a few minutes to overwhelm us; and small quantities of sand did actually more than once reach us. Again they would retreat so as to be almost out of sight, their tops reaching to the very clouds.
Sivu 404 - ... with a majestic slowness ; at intervals we thought they were coming in a very few minutes to overwhelm us; and small quantities of sand did actually more than once reach us. Again they would retreat so as to be almost out of sight, their tops reaching to the very clouds.
Sivu 30 - ... they would defy all obstruction ; yet as they broke over the careenage they seemed to be lost, the surface of it being entirely covered with floating wrecks of every description. It was an undulating body of lumber — shingles, staves, barrels, trusses of hay, and every kind of merchandise of a buoyant nature. Two vessels only were afloat within the pier, but numbers could be seen which had been capsized or thrown on their beam ends in shallow water.
Sivu 424 - If great storms obey fixed laws, and the explanation given of them in this work be the true one, then the rule for laying a ship to, follows like the corollary to a problem already solved. In order to define the two sides of a storm, that side will be called the right hand semicircle...
Sivu 404 - At one o'clock we alighted among some acacia-trees at Waadi el Halboub, having gone twenty-one miles. We were here at once surprised and terrified by a sight, surely one of the most magnificent in the world. In that vast expanse of desert, from w.
Sivu 274 - ... near eight; it then abated. The sea during the last period exhibited a most awful scene; the waves swelled to an amazing height, rushed with an impetuosity not to be described on the land, and in a few minutes determined the fate of all the houses in the Bay.
Sivu 9 - From a dense cloud a cone descends, in the form of a trumpet, with the small end downwards: at the same time, the surface of the sea under it is agitated and whirled round, the waters are...
Sivu 370 - ... with thick weather, commonly with rain; it veers gradually to the west, increasing in strength, and when it veers to the southward of that point the weather begins to clear up; at south-west the gale blows hardest, and the barometer rises; and by the time the wind gets to south or south-south-east it CHAP.