 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1809 - 544 pagine
...in a perpendicular direeiion, but makes a very acute angle with the bottom, and much of it afterward spreads many fathoms on the surface of the sea, I am well warranted to say, that some of it grows to die length of sixty fathoms and upward. At one o'clock (having run two leagues upon a South East i... | |
 | Robert Kerr - 1815 - 556 pagine
...in a perpendicular direction, but makes a very acute angle with the bottom, and much of it afterward spreads many fathoms on the surface of the sea, I...some of it grows to the length of sixty fathoms and upward. At one o'clock (having run two leagues upon a SE i E. course, from noon) we sounded, and found... | |
 | General history - 1815 - 802 pagine
...a perpendicular direction, but makes a very acute angle \\ith the bottom, ;md much of it afterward spreads many fathoms on the surface of the sea, I...some of it grows to the length of sixty fathoms and upward. At one o'clock (having run two leagues upon a SE J E. course, from noon) we sounded, and found... | |
 | James Cook - 1821 - 488 pagine
...that on some of the shoals upon which it grows, we did not strike ground with a line of twenty -four fathoms. The depth of water, therefore, must have...some of it grows* to the length of sixty fathoms and upward. At one o'clock (having run two leagues upon a SE iE. course, from noon) we sounded, and found... | |
 | Robert Kerr - 1824 - 532 pagine
...in a perpendicular direction, but makes a very acute angle with the bottom, and much of it afterward spreads many fathoms on the surface of the sea, I...some of it grows to the length of sixty fathoms and upward. At one o'clock (having run two leagues upon a SE \ E. course, from noon) we sounded, and found... | |
 | James Cook - 1842 - 644 pagine
...the stem is not much thicker than a man's thumb. I have mentioned, that on some of the shoals upon which it grows, we did not strike ground with a line...some of it grows to the length of sixty fathoms and upward. At one o'clock (having run two leagues upon a SE -J E. course, from noon) we sounded, and found... | |
 | John Purdy - 1844 - 534 pagine
...angle with the bottom, and much of it afterwards spreads many fathoms on the surface of the sea, I am warranted to say, that some of it grows to the length of 60 fathoms and upwards." Certainly at the Falkland Islands, and about Tierra del Fuego, extensive beds... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1846 - 390 pagine
...in a perpendicular direction, but makes a very acute angle with the bottom, and much of it afterward spreads many fathoms on the surface of the sea, I...grows to the length of sixty fathoms and upwards." I do not suppose the stem of any other plant attains so great a length as three hundred and sixty feet,... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1846 - 396 pagine
...in a perpendicular direction, but makes a very acute angle with the bottom, and much of it afterward spreads many fathoms on the surface of the sea, I...grows to the length of sixty fathoms and upwards." I do not suppose the stem of any other plant attains so great a length as three hundred and sixty feet,... | |
 | Agricultural chemistry - 1849 - 300 pagine
...the stem is not much thicker than a man's thumb. I have mentioned that upon some of the shoals upon which it grows, we did not strike ground with a line...extensive beds frequently spring up from ten and fifteen fathoms water. I do not suppose that any other plant attains so great a length as 360 feet, as stated... | |
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... fathoms. The depth of water, therefore, must have been greater. And as this weed does not grow in a perpendicular direction, but makes a very acute angle with the bottom, and much of it afterwards spreads many fathoms on the surface of the sea, I... 
