 The surf begins to assume its form at some distance from the place where it breaks, gradually accumulating as it moves forward, till it gains a height, in common, of fifteen to twenty feet,* when it overhangs at top, and falls, like a cascade, nearly...  The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature - Page 431edited by - 1783Full view - About this book
 | William Marsden - 1784 - 408 pages
...proportion to the height and violence of the furf. 1 , \ The furf begins to affume its form at fome diftance from the place where it breaks, gradually...noife made by the fall is prodigious, and, during the flillnefs of the night, may be heard many miles up the country. Though in the rifing and formation... | |
 | William Marsden - 1784 - 424 pages
...generally in proportion to the height and violence of the furf. The furf begins to afiume its form at fome diftance from the place where it breaks, gradually...falls, like a cafcade, nearly perpendicular, involving itfeJf as it defcends. The noife made by the fall is prodigious, and, during the ftillnefs of the night,... | |
 | Joseph Huddart - 1801 - 686 pages
...in proportion to the height and violence of the Surf. " The Surf begins to aflumé its form at fome diftance from the place where it breaks, gradually...it moves forward, till it gains a height, in common from fifteen to twenty feet, when it overhangs at top, and falls, like a cafcade, nearly perpendicular,... | |
 | William Granger - 1804 - 688 pages
...behind one another, extending perhaps half a mile out to fea. The furf begins to aflume its form at fome diftance from the place where it breaks, gradually accumulating as it moves forward, till it gain, not uncommonly, in places within the limits of the trade-winds, a height of fifteen or twenty... | |
 | 1812 - 666 pages
...concerning the latter we give in his own words. ' The surf begins to assume its form at some distance from the place •where it breaks, gradually accumulating...feet, when it overhangs at top, and falls, like a cascade, nearly perpendicular, involving itself as it descends. The noise made by the fall is prodigious,... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 742 pages
...another, extending perhaps half a mile out to sea. The surf begin* to assume its form at some distance from the place where it breaks, gradually accumulating as it moves forward, till it gain, not uncommonly, in places within the limits of the trade-winds, a height of fifteen or twenty... | |
 | 1821 - 448 pages
...generally in proportion to the height and violence. The surf begins to assume its form at some distance from the place where it breaks, gradually accumulating...feet, when it overhangs at top, and falls, like a cascade, nearly perpendicular, involving itself as it descends. The noise made by the fall is prodigious,... | |
 | 1842 - 496 pages
...another, extending perhaps half a mile out to sea. The surf begins to assume its form at some distance from the place where it breaks, gradually accumulating as it moves forward, till it attains, not uncommonly, in places within the limits of the trade-winds, a height of fifteen or twenty... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Foreign Affairs - 1971 - 512 pages
...proportion to the height and violence. . , ' ^ ' • ., "The surf begins to assume its form at some distance from the place where it breaks, gradually accumulating...to twenty feet, when it overhangs at top, and falls nbea cascade, nearly perpendicular . . .Though in the rising and formation of the surf, the water seems... | |
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