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" ... the direction and force of the wind, and the state of the weather, and possibly the usage and custom of the port of Quebec, if any existed in relation thereto. "
The Nautical Magazine: A Journal of Papers on Subjects Connected with ... - Page 133
1883
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Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-west Passage ..., Volume 2

Sir John Ross, Sir James Clark Ross - Arctic regions - 1835 - 474 pages
...at a convenient distance from the ship. Its altitude was registered every hour, and at the same time the direction and force of the wind, and the state of the weather, in a manner which will be manifest in the following table, to which directions are prefixed. The first...
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Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions ..., Volume 4

Royal Society (Great Britain) - Electronic journals - 1843 - 552 pages
...October and November, and Curves for August, September, October and November 1841. Observations of the Direction and Force of the Wind, and the state of the Sky, during October and November 1841. Extraordinary Magnetic Curves for September, October and December...
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Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions ..., Volume 4

Royal Society (Great Britain) - Electronic journals - 1843 - 538 pages
...October and November, and Curves for August, September, October and November 1841. Observations of the Direction and Force of the Wind, and the state of the Sky, during October and November 1841. Extraordinary Magnetic Curves for September, October and December...
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A Voyage of Discovery and Research in the Southern and Antarctic ..., Volume 2

Sir James Clark Ross - Antarctica - 1847 - 516 pages
...on observations of the temperature of the air and surface of the sea, the height of the barometer, the direction and force of the wind, and the state of the weather recorded every hour during the whole period, and are divided into equal intervals of about thirty days...
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The Hand-book for New Zealand: Consisting of the Most Recent Information

Edward Jerningham Wakefield - Great Britain - 1848 - 512 pages
...on observations of the temperature of the air and surface of the sea, the height of the barometer, the direction and force of the wind, and the state of the weather recorded every hour dining the whole period, and are divided into equal intervals of about thirty days...
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The Pictorial Handbook of London Comprising Its Antiquities, Architecture ...

John Weale - Great Britain - 1854 - 1004 pages
...Islands, and under sanction of their directors. This has for its object, not only the determination of the direction and force of the wind, and the state of the sky in various parts of the country, but the immediate publication of the observations in a London...
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Practical Meteorology

John Drew - Meteorology - 1860 - 366 pages
...observations. An arrangement was made a few years since, which lasted for some length of time, whereby the direction and force of the wind, and the state of the weather at 9 AM every day in the year (Sundays excepted), were transmitted by electric telegraph to Mr. Glaisher,...
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The Herring: Its Natural History and National Importance

John Mitchell Mitchell - Atlantic herring - 1864 - 400 pages
...best fished. The nature of the ground where caught — whether gravelly, rocky, sandy, &c. 4. Give — the direction and force of the wind and the state of the atmosphere ; the temperature of the air by thermometer; the temperature of the water at the surface...
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Manual of the Natural History, Geology, and Physics of Greenland, and the ...

Thomas Rupert Jones - Geology - 1875 - 920 pages
...of sen- water. The appendix to his " Second Voyage " contains a complete register of temperatures, direction and force of the wind, and the state of the weather at various hours, and the daily and monthly means, also the register of the barometer, nnd an abstract...
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Manual of the Natural History, Geology, and Physics of Greenland, and the ...

Thomas Rupert Jones - Geology - 1875 - 908 pages
...gravity of sea-water. The appendix to his " Second Voyage " contains a complete register of temperatures, direction and force of the wind, and the state of the weather at various hours, and the daily and monthly means, also the register of the barometer, and an abstract...
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