They both come and go away again earlier or later, according to the weather, the season of the year, or some accidental cause from the land. For, on some coasts, they do rise earlier, blow fresher, and remain later than on other coasts, as I shall show... Extracts from a Journal: Written on the Coasts of Chili, Peru, and Mexico ... - Seite 104von Basil Hall - 1824Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Basil Hall - 1824 - 400 Seiten
...sea, a greater or less distance, according as the coast lies more or less exposed to the sea-winds : For, in some places, we find them brisk three or four...shore, in other places, not so many miles, and, in £ome places, they scarce peep without the rocks, or if they do sometimes, in very fair weather, •make... | |
| Basil Hall - 1824 - 422 Seiten
...blow fresher, and remain later than on other coasts, as I shall show hereafter. " These winds blow off to sea, a greater or less distance, according as the coast lies more or less exposed to the sea-winds : For, in some places, we find them brisk three or four leagues off shore, in other places,... | |
| Library - 1827 - 712 Seiten
...blow fresher, and remain later than on other coasts, as I shall show hereafter. " These winds blow off to sea, a greater or less distance, according as the coast lies more or less exposed to the sea-winds ; for, in some places, we find them brisk three or four leagues off shore, in other places,... | |
| Patrick Murphy - 1830 - 578 Seiten
...fresher, and remain later than on other coasts, as I shall show hereafter. " These winds blow off to the sea, a greater or less distance, according as the coast lies more or less exposed to the sea-winds ; for, in some places, we find them brisk three or four leagues off shore; in other places,... | |
| 1831 - 448 Seiten
...directions in different parts of the twenty-four hours. " These winds," (the land breezes) " blow off to sea a greater or less distance, according as the...in some places they scarce peep without the rocks." — " These land winds are very cold, and though the sea breezes are always much stronger, yet these... | |
| Georges Louis Le Clerc (comte de Buffon.) - 1831 - 462 Seiten
...fresher, and remain later, than on other coasts, as I shall show hereafter. " These winds blow off to sea, a greater or less distance, according as the...miles, and in some places they scarce peep without the ro:ks, or, if they do sometimes in very fair weather make a sally out a mile or two, they are not lasting,... | |
| System - 1842 - 894 Seiten
...blow fresher, and remain later, than on other coasts, as I shall show hereafter. These winds blow off to sea, a greater or less distance, according as the coast lies more or less exposed to the sea-winds; for in some places we find them brisk three or four leagues offshore, in other places not... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1845 - 510 Seiten
...exposed aspect of the coast from which it proceeds. In some places this breeze was found by Dampier brisk three or four leagues ofF shore ; in other places not so many miles ; in others, again, it scarcely extended without the rocks. The sea-breeze, from blowing over a more... | |
| Thomas Milner - 1848 - 892 Seiten
...blow fresher, and remain later than on other coasts, as I shall show hereafter. These winds blow off to sea, a greater or less distance, according as the coast lies more or less exposed to the sea-winds ; for, in some places, we find them brisk three or four leagues off shore ; in other places,... | |
| David Purdie Thomson - 1849 - 516 Seiten
...fresher, and remain later, than on other coasts, as I shall shew hereafter. " These winds blow off to sea, a greater or less distance according as the coast lies more or less exposed to the seawinds ; for in some places we find them brisk three or four leagues off shore, in other places not... | |
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