| 1834 - 504 páginas
...But the most remarkable circumstance is, the uniformity of the time of high and low water. During the year, whatever be the age or situation of the moon,...in the evening, and highest at noon and midnight. This is so well established, that the time of night is marked by the ebbing and flowing of the tide... | |
| William Ellis - 1831 - 448 páginas
...the most remarkable circumstance is, the uniformity of the time of high a'nd low water. During the year, whatever be the age or situation of the moon,...in the evening, and highest at noon and midnight. This is so well established, that the time of night is marked by the ebbing and flowing of the tide... | |
| 1834 - 544 páginas
...But the most remarkable circumstance is, the uniformity of the time of high and low water. During the year, whatever be the age or situation of the moon,...in the evening, and highest at noon and midnight. This is so well established, that the time of night is marked by the ebbing and flowing of the tide... | |
| 1835 - 908 páginas
...But the most remarkable circumstance is the uniformity of the time of high and low water. During the year, whatever be the age or situation of the moon,...in the evening, and highest at noon and midnight. This is so well established, that the time of night is marked by the ebbing and flowing of the tide,... | |
| Alexander Bryan Johnson - 1836 - 290 páginas
...".Polynesian Researches," published lately in London, the author, in speaking of some islands in the Pacifick ocean, says, " The tide is here very singular. If...midnight." The writer seems embarrassed by the usual confusion of words with sensible realities. He evidently is seeking in nature for " the influence of... | |
| Francis Allyn Olmsted - 1841 - 390 páginas
...circumstance is the uniformity of the time of high and low water, during the year, whatever be the age or the situation of the moon, the water is lowest at six in the morning, and highest at noon and midnight. This is so well established, that the time of night is inarked by the... | |
| William Ellis - 1831 - 446 páginas
...But the most remarkable circumstance is, the uniformity of the time of high and low water. During the year, whatever be the age or situation of the moon,...in the evening, and highest at noon and midnight. This is so well established, that the time of night is marked by the ebbing and flowing of the tide... | |
| 1844 - 550 páginas
...black bellman, would be " to tedus to 'numerate." It was formerly the custom to ring a market-bell at six in the morning, and the same hour in the evening, and also to have a clerk of the market, whose duty it was to see that the street where the market is held... | |
| Alexander Bryan Johnson - 1854 - 272 páginas
...is in a very small degree only. The height to which the water rises varies but a few inches daring the whole year. Whatever be the age or situation of...writer alludes exhibit no sensible response to the ini tellectually conceived power of the moon, the defect is no wonder of objective nature, but an instance... | |
| Scottish school-book assoc - 1863 - 438 páginas
...But the most remarkable circumstance is, the uniformity of the time of high and low water. During the year, whatever be the age or situation of the moon,...in the evening, and highest at noon and midnight. This is so well established, that the time of night is marked by the ebbing and flowing of the tide;... | |
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