EXPLANATIONS AND SAILING DIRECTIONS TO ACCOMPANY THE WIND AND CURRENT CHARTS |
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Explanations and Sailing Directions to Accompany the Wind and Current Charts Usn Lieut N F Maury Predogled ni na voljo - 2015 |
Explanations and Sailing Directions to Accompany the Wind and Current Charts Usn Lieut N. F. Maury Predogled ni na voljo - 2018 |
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A. M. WINDS Abstract Log Atlantic ocean atmosphere atmospherical circulation average belt blow Boston bottom Cape Horn Cape St Capt Captain clouds coast cold course Crossed the Line Current Charts depth dew point direction earth East eastward equatorial calms evaporation Falkland Islands fathoms fresh gales Gulf Stream head heat Horse Latitudes Islands isotherm Knots per hour land latitude Lieut light airs light breezes Light winds Log-books longitude meridian miles Moderate breezes moisture month N. E. trade winds navigators noon North northern hemisphere northward observations old route Pacific parallel pass passage Patagonia Pilot Chart polar pole port precipitation prevailing rain Red sea remarkable right whale rivers Roque running sailed season Sept ship shoals shot sounding South southern southward sperm whale squalls Straits supposed surface temp temperature track upper current upper regions Variable vessels voyage weather West westward Wind and Current York zone
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Stran 140 - All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
Stran 12 - It surrounds us on all sides, yet we see it not ; it presses on us with a load of fifteen pounds on every square inch of surface of our bodies, or from seventy to one hundred tons on us in all, yet we do not so much as feel its weight. Softer than the softest down, more impalpable than the finest gossamer—- it leaves the cobweb undisturbed, and scarcely stirs the lightest flower that feeds on the dew it supplies ; yet it bears the fleets of nations on its wings around the world, and crushes the...
Stran 12 - When in motion its force is sufficient to level the most stately forests and stable buildings with the earth — to raise the waters of the ocean into ridges like mountains, and dash the strongest ships to pieces like toys. It warms and cools by turns the earth and the living creatures that inhabit it.
Stran 53 - By this time they are heavily laden with vapor, which they continue to bear along across the continent, depositing it as they go, and supplying with it the sources of the Rio de la Plata and the southern tributaries of the Amazon. Finally they reach the snow-capped Andes, and here is wrung from them the last particle of moisture that that very low temperature can extract.
Stran 45 - ... operation and effects. But such allusions are often so wrapped in the folds of the peculiar and graceful drapery with which its language is occasionally clothed, that the meaning, though peeping out from its thin covering all the while, yet lies in some sense concealed, until the lights and revelations of science are thrown upon it ; then it bursts out and strikes us with the more force and beauty.
Stran 12 - We should have no twilight to soften and beautify the' landscape; no clouds to shade us from the scorching heat, but the bald earth, as it revolved on its axis, would turn its tanned and weakened front to the full and unmitigated rays of the lord of day. It affords the gas which vivifies and warms our frames, and receives into itself that which has been polluted by use, and is thrown off as noxious. It feeds the flame of life exactly as it does that of the...
Stran 56 - ... compensation" in the atmosphere and the ocean, upon the right adjustment and due performance of which depends not only the life of that plant, but the well-being of every individual that is found in the entire vegetable and animal kingdoms of the world ? When the east winds blow along the Atlantic coast for a little while, they bring us air saturated with moisture from the Gulf Stream, and we complain of the sultry, oppressive, heavy atmosphere ; the invalid grows worse, and the well man feels...
Stran 155 - Half concealed by the dark clouds of dust, restless with the pain of thirst and hunger, the horses and cattle roam around, the cattle lowing dismally, and the horses stretching out their long necks and snuffing the wind, if haply a moister current may betray the neighborhood of a not wholly dried up pool.
Stran 55 - ... the most opposite, but in proportions so exactly balanced and nicely adjusted, that results the most harmonious are produced. It is by the action of opposite and compensating forces that the earth is kept in its orbit, and the stars are held suspended in the azure vault of heaven ; and these forces are so exquisitely adjusted, that at the end of a thousand years the earth, the sun and moon, and every star in the firmament, is found to come to its proper place at the proper moment.
Stran 44 - ... supplied, we may infer, by downward currents from the superincumbent air of the calm region. Like the case of a vessel of water which has two streams from opposite directions running in at the top and two of equal capacity discharging in opposite directions at the bottom — the motion of the water in the vessel would be downward : so is the motion of air in this calm zone.