 ... for, in some places, we find them brisk three or four leagues off shore ; in other places, not so many miles, and, in some places, they scarce peep without the rocks ; or if they do sometimes, in very fair weather, make a sally out a mile or two,...  Buffon's Natural history, corrected and enlarged by J. Wright. (To which are ... - Page 79by Georges Louis Le Clerc (comte de Buffon.) - 1831Full view - About this book
 | Basil Hall - 1824 - 492 pages
...shore, in other places, not so many miles, and, in some places they scarce peep without the rocks, or if they do sometimes, in very fair weather make...vanish away, though yet, there are every night as fresh land-winds ashore, at these places, as in any other part of the world."* Being always near the land,... | |
 | Basil Hall - 1824 - 402 pages
...shore, in other places, not so many miles, and, in some places, they scarce peep without the rocks ; or if they do sometimes, in very fair weather, make...vanish away, though yet, there are every night as fresh land-winds ashore, at these places, as in any other part of the world." * Being always near the land,... | |
 | Basil Hall - 1824 - 806 pages
...shore, in other places, not so many miles, and, in some places, they scarce peep without the rocks ; or if they do sometimes, in very fair weather, make...lasting, but suddenly vanish away, though yet, there are everynight as fresh land-winds ashore, at these places, as in any other part of the world." * Being... | |
 | Basil Hall - 1824 - 376 pages
...shore, in other places, not so many miles, and, in some places, they scarce peep without the rocks ; or if they do sometimes, in very fair weather, make...sally out a mile or two, they are not lasting, but su ddenly vanish away, though yet, there are every night as fresh land-winds ashore, at these places,... | |
 | Basil Hall - 1824 - 422 pages
...shore, in other places, not so many miles, and, in some places, they scarce peep without the rocks, or if they do sometimes, in very fair weather, make a sally out a mile or two, they are not lastVOLCANO OF COLIMA. 181 ing, but suddenly vanish away, though yet, there are every night as fresh... | |
 | Library - 1827 - 712 pages
...off shore, in other places, not so many miles, and in some places they scarce peep without the rocks, or, if they do sometimes, in very fair weather, make...vanish away, though yet there are every night as fresh land-winds ashore at those places, as in any other part of the world. " Indeed these winds are an extraordinary... | |
 | Patrick Murphy - 1830 - 578 pages
...leagues off shore; in other places, they scarce peep without the rocks ; or if they do sometimes, in fair weather, make a sally out a mile or two, they...vanish away, though yet there are every night as fresh land-winds ashore, at these places, as in any other part of the world." The first circumstance which... | |
 | James Laurie - 1842 - 1098 pages
...off shore, in other places not so many miles, and in some places they scarce peep without the rocks, or, if they do sometimes in very fair weather make...vanish away, though yet there are every night as fresh land-winds ashore at those places as in any other part of the world. Indeed, these winds are an extraordinary... | |
 | System - 1842 - 894 pages
...offshore, in other places not so many miles, and in some places they scarce peep without the rocks, or, if they do sometimes in very fair weather make...suddenly vanish away, though yet there are every night as fresih land-winds ashore at those places as in any other part of the world. Indeed, these winds are... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1848 - 892 pages
...shore ; in other places, not so many miles, and, in some places, they scarce peep without the rocks ; or if they do sometimes, in very fair weather, make...vanish away, though yet, there are every night as fresh land-winds ashore, at these places, as in any other part of the world. Indeed, these winds are an extraordinary... | |
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