 | Georges Louis Le Clerc (comte de Buffon.) - 1831 - 462 pages
...then people pant for breath, especially if it is late before the sea breeze comes, but afterwards the breeze allays the heat. However, in the evening again,...land wind springs up, which is sometimes not till twelve o'clock or after." This phenomenon is thus accounted for by Mr. Leslie. " In open seas, and... | |
 | Charles Tomlinson - 1861 - 408 pages
...then people pant for breath, especially if it is late before the sea breeze comes, but afterwards the breeze allays the heat. However, in the evening again,...land wind springs up, which is sometimes not till twelve o'clock, or after." SEA BRKEZE. (Island of Jamaica.) LAND BREEZE. These figures may illustrate... | |
 | William Morris Davis - 1894 - 400 pages
...heat. However, in the evening again after the sea-breez is spent, it is very hot till the land-wind springs up, which is sometimes not till 12 a clock or after.'' These several paragraphs suffice to show that over large areas of the torrid zone the sequence of weather... | |
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... very comfortable and refreshing; for the hottest time in all the day is about nine, ten, or eleven o'clock in the morning, in the interval between both breezes: for then it is commonly calm, and then people pant for breath, especially if it is late... 