A Directory for the North Atlantic Ocean, Comprising Instructions, General and Particular, for Its Navigation

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R.H. Laurie, 1895 - 1005 Seiten
 

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Seite 221 - ... from right to left, or in a direction contrary to the movement of the hands of a watch...
Seite 278 - ... the Northern and Southern streams in both channels commence and end in all parts (practically speaking) at...
Seite 98 - ... of the globe. It is therefore, in obedience to the general laws of hydrostatics, displaced and buoyed up from the surface, and its place occupied by colder, and therefore heavier air, which glides in, on both sides, along the surface, from the regions beyond the tropics ; while the displaced air, thus raised above its due level, and unsustained by any lateral pressure, flows over, as it were, and forms an upper current in the contrary direction, or towards the poles ; which, being cooled in its...
Seite 279 - Abreast of the Arklow is situated that remarkable spot in the Irish Channel, where the tide scarcely either rises or falls. The stream notwithstanding sweeps past it at the rate of 4 knots at the springs, and reaches the parallel of Wicklow Head. Here it encounters an extensive projection...
Seite 367 - It is known, that a large piece of water ten miles broad and generally only three feet deep, has by a strong wind had its waters driven to one side and sustained so as to become six feet deep, while the windward side was laid dry.
Seite 279 - Channel, which are produced by the flowing of the water, or which, for the purpose of distinction, we may designate the ingoing streams. The ebbing or outgoing streams do not materially differ from the reverse of those, except that in the southern channel they press rather more over towards the Irish coast.
Seite 788 - America are revolving gales. Vessels from Bermuda bound to New York, should put to sea when the north-west wind, which is the conclusion of a passing gale, is becoming moderate, and the barometer is rising to its usual level. The probability is, more particularly in the winter season, that, after a short calm, the next succeeding wind will be easterly, the first part of a fresh revolving wind coming up from the south-west quarter.
Seite 240 - Maine on the 9th ; being on the highlands of New Hampshire, a violent snow-storm. The destructive action of this storm was widely extended on both sides of the track indicated upon the chart, and the same fact pertains, in a greater or less degree, to the other storms herein mentioned. It appears to have passed from Martinico, and the other Windward Islands, to Boston in Massachusetts, by the usual curvilinear route in about six days ; a distance of more than 2200 miles, at an average progress of...
Seite ii - O'ER the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free, Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home!
Seite 98 - ... that circle, in every point of its progress towards its new situation it must be found deficient in rotatory velocity, and therefore unable to keep up with the speed of the new surface over which it is brought Hence, the currents of air which set in towards the equator from the north and south must, as they glide along the surface, at the same time lag, or hang back, and drag upon it in the direction opposite to the earth's rotation, ie from east to west. Thus these currents, which but for the...

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