 | Alexander George Findlay - 1851 - 746 strani
...reference to this, when Vancouver anchored in a small bay 60 miles to the north-westward, he says : — " The surface of the sea, which was perfectly smooth...with a thick slimy substance, which when separated or distributed by any little agitation, became very luminous, whilst the light breeze that cume principally... | |
 | Alexander George Findlay - 1851 - 748 strani
...smooth and tranquil, was covered with a thick slimy substance, whicli when separate'! or distributed by any little agitation, became very luminous, whilst the light breeze that cuino principally from the shore brought with it a very strong smell of burning tar, or of some such... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology - 1927 - 678 strani
...soundings at the depth of 37 fathoms, muddy bottom, we anchored in company with the Chatham and Dwdalus. The surface of the sea, which was perfectly smooth and tranquil, was covered with a thick filmy substance, which, when separated, or disturbed by any little agitation, became very luminous,... | |
 | Alan Judd, Martin Hovland - 2009 - 387 strani
...Vancouver, made the following observations when passing through the Santa Barbara Channel in 1792: The surface of the sea, which was perfectly smooth...slimy substance, which when separated or disturbed by a little agitation, became very luminous, whilst the light breeze, which came principally from the... | |
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... came principally from the shore, brought with it a very strong smell of burning tar, or of some such resinous substance. 