Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the Arts, Sciences, Literature, &c. Intended to Supersede the Use of Other Books of Reference, Volume 20John Brown, 1816 |
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... wind can blow , with which a fhip of 150 tons cannot fafely fail through one or other of them , Crow Sound only excepted , where they cannot pafs at low water , but at high there is from 16 to 24 feet in this paffage . There are alfo ...
... wind can blow , with which a fhip of 150 tons cannot fafely fail through one or other of them , Crow Sound only excepted , where they cannot pafs at low water , but at high there is from 16 to 24 feet in this paffage . There are alfo ...
Page 50
... wind is ftrong at eaft ; or , if it blows hard at NW . from being forced back into some of the Cornish harbours , or even on the French coafts . If the wind should not be very high , yet if unfavour- able or unfteady , as between the ...
... wind is ftrong at eaft ; or , if it blows hard at NW . from being forced back into some of the Cornish harbours , or even on the French coafts . If the wind should not be very high , yet if unfavour- able or unfteady , as between the ...
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... winds . either to make Uthant in time of peace , or at all events to keep in the parallel of 48 ° 45 ' at the higneft . 3dly , Ships bound to the weftward from the mouth of the Channel , with the wind in the SW . quarter , fhould prefer ...
... winds . either to make Uthant in time of peace , or at all events to keep in the parallel of 48 ° 45 ' at the higneft . 3dly , Ships bound to the weftward from the mouth of the Channel , with the wind in the SW . quarter , fhould prefer ...
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... wind . In the SW . it is applied to the hot suffocating blafts from Africa , and in the NE it means the cold bleak " winds from the Alps . SCIROS . See SCIRO , N ° 1. and 2 . SCIRPUS , in botany , RUSH GRASS , a genus of the monogynia ...
... wind . In the SW . it is applied to the hot suffocating blafts from Africa , and in the NE it means the cold bleak " winds from the Alps . SCIROS . See SCIRO , N ° 1. and 2 . SCIRPUS , in botany , RUSH GRASS , a genus of the monogynia ...
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... wind . Their food is the fame as the other fquirrels . They are easily tamed ; and bring three or four young at time . See plate CCCII . fig . 3. and 4. the one reprefenting the animal in what is called a flying , the other in a fitting ...
... wind . Their food is the fame as the other fquirrels . They are easily tamed ; and bring three or four young at time . See plate CCCII . fig . 3. and 4. the one reprefenting the animal in what is called a flying , the other in a fitting ...
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