 | Library - 1827 - 712 pages
...seldom fail but in the wet ..season. On all coasts of the main, whether in the East or West Indies, or Guinea, they rise in the morning and withdraw towards...where they are highest, rise earlier, and blow later. " Land-breezes are as remarkable as any winds that I hare yet treated of ; they are quite contrary... | |
 | Georges Louis Le Clerc (comte de Buffon.) - 1831 - 462 pages
...and seldom fail but in the wet season. On all coasts of the main, whether in the East or West Indies, or Guinea, they rise in the morning, and withdraw...where they are highest, rise earlier, and blow later. "Land breezes are as remarkable as any winds that I have yet treated of; they are quite contrary to... | |
 | System - 1842 - 894 pages
...and seldom fail but in the wet season. On all coasts of the main, whether in the East or West Indies, or Guinea, they rise in the morning, and withdraw...where they are highest, rise earlier, and blow later. Land-breezes are as remarkable as any winds that I have yet treated of: they are quite contrary to... | |
 | James Laurie - 1842 - 1098 pages
...and seldom fail but in the wet season. On all coasts of the main, whether in the East or West Indies, or Guinea, they rise in the morning, and withdraw...where they are highest, rise earlier, and blow later. Land-breezes are as remarkable as any winds that I have yet treated of: they are quite contrary to... | |
 | Tempest - 1848 - 316 pages
...and seldom fail but in the wet season. On all coasts of the main, whether in the East or West Indies, or Guinea, they rise in the morning and withdraw towards...the benefit of these winds on both sides equally. * * * " Land breezes are quite the contrary to the sea breezes ; for these blow right from the shore,... | |
 | David Purdie Thomson - 1849 - 516 pages
...seldom fail but in the wet season. On all coasts of the main, whether in the East or West Indies, on Guinea, they rise in the morning and withdraw towards...where they are highest, rise earlier and blow later. " Land-breezes are as remarkable as any winds that I have yet treated of : they are quite contrary... | |
 | Charles Tomlinson - 1861 - 408 pages
...and seldom fail but in the wet season. On all coasts of the main, whether in the East or West Indies, or Guinea, they rise in the morning and withdraw towards...the benefit of these winds on both sides equally. * * * "Land breezes are quite the contrary to the sea breezes ; for these blow right from the shore,... | |
 | William Hughes - 1868 - 346 pages
...seldom fail but in the wet season. On ;ill coasts of the main, whether in the East or "West Indies, or Guinea, they rise in the morning, and withdraw...where they are highest, rise earlier, and blow later. Land-breezes are as remarkable as any winds that I have yet treated of : they are quite contrary to... | |
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... o'clock, sooner or later, according as the weather is, it is lulled asleep, and comes no more till the next morning. These winds are as constantly expected as the day in their proper latitudes, and seldom fail but in the wet season. On all coasts... 