 ... gradually withdraws its force till all is spent ; and about five 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...  A class-book of physical geography - Page 155by William Hughes - 1868Full view - About this book
 | William Dampier - 1699 - 538 pages
...determine, tho' lam apt to believe there is not. So much for the Sea-Winds ; next of the Land- Breezes. Land-Breezes .are as remarkable as any Winds that I have yet treated of-, they are quite contrary to the Sea-Breezes -, for thofe blow right from the fhore, but the Sea-Breez right in upon the fhore j... | |
 | Basil Hall - 1824 - 492 pages
...later, according as the weather is, it is lulled asleep, and comes no more till the next morning. " Land-breezes are as remarkable as any winds that I have yet treated of; they are quite contrary to the sea-breezes ; for those blow right from the shore, but the sea-breeze right in upon the shore ;... | |
 | Basil Hall - 1824 - 806 pages
...later, according as the weather is, it is lulled asleep, and comes no more till the next morning. " Land-breezes are as remarkable as any winds that I have yet treated of; they are quite contrary to the sea-breezes ; for those blow right from the shore, but the sea-breeze right in upon the shore ;... | |
 | Basil Hall - 1824 - 402 pages
...as the weather is, it is lulled asleep, and comes no more till the next morning. " Land-breezes arc as remarkable as any winds that I have yet treated of; they are quite contrary to the sea-breezes ; for those blow right from the shore, but the sea-breeze right in upon the shore ;... | |
 | Library - 1827 - 712 pages
...constantly expected as the day, in their proper latitudes, and seldom fail but in the wet ..season. On all coasts of the main, whether in the East or West Indies,...Land-breezes are as remarkable as any winds that I hare yet treated of ; they are quite contrary to the sea-breezes ; for those blow right from the shore,... | |
 | Patrick Murphy - 1830 - 578 pages
...or later, according as the weather is, it is lulled asleep, and comet* no more till next morning." " Land-breezes are as remarkable as any winds that I have yet treated of; they are quite contrary to the sea-breezes, for those blow right from the shore, but the sea-breezes right in upon the shore ;... | |
 | Georges Louis Le Clerc (comte de Buffon.) - 1831 - 462 pages
...constantly expected as the day in their proper latitudes, and seldom fail but in the wet season. On all coasts of the main, whether in the East or West Indies,...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
...constantly expected as the day in their proper latitude«, and seldom fail but in the wet season. On all coasts of the main, whether in the East or West Indies,...I have yet treated of: they are quite contrary to the sea-breezes; for those blow right from the shore, but the sea-breeze right in upon the shore ;... | |
 | James Laurie - 1842 - 1098 pages
...constantly expected as the day in their proper latitudes, and seldom fail but in the wet season. On all coasts of the main, whether in the East or West Indies,...I have yet treated of: they are quite contrary to the sea-breezes; for those blow right from the shore, but the sea-breeze right in upon the shore ;... | |
 | Tempest - 1848 - 316 pages
...constantly expected as the day, in their proper latitudes, and seldom fail but in the wet season. On all coasts of the main, whether in the East or West Indies,...where they are highest, rise earlier, and blow later. Bays contrarily have the disadvantage, for there they blow but faintly at best, and their continuance... | |
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