| Universalism - 1800 - 490 pages
...turn of the ebb and flood, and last but a quarter of an hour, its violence then gradually returns. When the stream is most boisterous, and its fury heightened by a storm, it is dangerous to come within a Norway mile of it ; boats, yachts, and ships having been carried away... | |
| John Walker - Geography - 1801 - 978 pages
...thefe intervals of tranquillity are only at the turn of the ebb and Hood, and calm weather, and laft but a quarter of an hour, its violence gradually returning. When the fiream a moft boiftcrous, and its fury heightened by a florin, it is dangerous to come within a Norway... | |
| Richard Brookes - Geography - 1801 - 788 pages
...thefc intervals of tranquillity r.re only at the turn of the ebb and flood, and calm weather ; and laft but a quarter of an hour, its violence gradually returning. When the ftream is molt boifterous, and its fury heightened by a Itorm, it is dangerous to conic within fix... | |
| Encyclopaedia Britannica - 1810 - 816 pages
...intervals of tranquillity are only at t'.ie turn of the ebb alid flood, and calm weather : and lait but a quarter of an hour, its violence gradually returning. When the ftream is mult boulerons, and its fury heightened by a dorm, it is dangerous to come within a Norway... | |
| Richard Brookes - Geography - 1812 - 822 pages
...flood, und calm weather ; and last but я quarter of an hour, its violence gradually return ing. AVhen the stream is most boisterous and its fury heightened by a storm, it is dangerous to come within six miles oit; boats and ships having been carried away, by not guarding... | |
| Richard Brookes - Geography - 1812 - 832 pages
...The intervals of .tranquillity are only at the turn of the ebb and flood, and calm weather; they laft but a quarter of an hour, its violence gradually returning. When the ftream is moft boifterous, and its fury heightened by a ftorm, veflels have been reached by it at the... | |
| Ezra Sampson - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1813 - 434 pages
...inconceivable fury ; when it instantly swallows up all things which come within the sphere of its violence. When the stream is most boisterous, and its fury heightened by a storm, it is dangerous to come within a mile of it : boats and ships having been carried away, by not guarding... | |
| Ezra Sampson - Children's encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1816 - 432 pages
...inconceivable fury ; when it instantly swallows up all things which come within the sphere of its violence. When the stream is most boisterous, and its fury heightened by a storm, it is dangerous to come within a mile of it: boats and ships having been carried away, by not guarding... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 856 pages
...flood, and in calm weather : and last but a quarter of an hour, its violence gradually re« turning. When the stream is most boisterous, and its fury heightened by a storm, it is dangerous to come within я Norway mile of it : boats, ships, and yachts having been carried... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 440 pages
...But these intervals of tranquillity are only at the turn of the ebb and flood, in calm weather ; and last but a quarter of an hour, its violence gradually...most boisterous, and its fury heightened by a storm, it is dangerous to come within a Norway mile of it; boats, ships, and yachts, having been carried away,... | |
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