 | George Gregory - Astronomy - 1808 - 452 pages
...during the- months of December, January, and February, in the interior parts of Africa, and ?'ways blows towards the Atlantic ocean. There are generally...greater part of the day, and the largest building cannot he seen at a quarter of a mile distance. The particles which constituta this fog are deposited on the... | |
 | 1813 - 574 pages
...sometimes only a day or two, sometimes five or six days, and has been known to last fifteen or sixteen. There are generally three or four returns of it every season : it blows with a moderate force, not so strongly as the sea-breeze, but somewhat more so than the land-wind. A foe or haze is one of the... | |
 | Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 588 pages
...only a day or two, sometimes five or sis days, and it has been known to last fifteen or sixteen days. There are generally three or four returns of it every...It blows with a moderate force, not quite so strong as the sea bri'i ze, which every day sets in during the fair season from the W., WSW, and SW ; but... | |
 | Edward Polehampton - 1815 - 628 pages
...only a day or two, sometimes fire or six days, and it has been known to last fifteen or sixteen days. There are generally three or four returns of it every...It blows with a moderate force, not quite so strong as the sea breeze, which every day sets in during the fair season from the W., VV. SW, and SW ; but... | |
 | Edward Polehampton - Natural history - 1821 - 592 pages
...only a day or two, sometimes five or six days, and it has been known to last fifteen or sixteen days. There are generally three or four returns of it every...It blows with a moderate force, not quite so strong as the sea breeze, which every day sets in during the fair season from the WWSW and SW ; but somewhat... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 872 pages
...only a day. or two, sometimes five or six days, and it has been known to last fifteen or sixteen days. There are generally three or four returns of it every season. It blowswith a moderate force,, not quite so strong as the seabreeze HAK HAR НапиаНян. breeze... | |
 | L. Cohen - Astronomy - 1825 - 192 pages
...the words as they are described in Gregory's Lectures, vol. 1, p. 85, 86, 87 : — " The " Harmattan is a Wind which prevails occasionally " during the...concealed the greater part of the day, and " the largest buildings cannot be seen at a quarter of " a mile distance. The particles which constitute " this fog... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 806 pages
...sometimes only a day or two, sometimes five or six days, and it has been known to last fifteen or sixteen. There are generally three or four returns of it every...It blows with a moderate force, not quite so strong as the sea-breeze (which blows every day during the fair season from the west, WSW, and south-west)... | |
 | Richard Brookes - Geography - 1832 - 864 pages
...or two. sometimes five or six days, and has been occasionally known to last fifteen or sixteen days. There are generally three or four returns of it every season ; it blows with a moderate force, not BO strongly as the sea-breeze, but somewhat more so than the land-wind. A fog or haze is one of the... | |
 | James Bell - Geography - 1832 - 812 pages
...or two, sometimes five or six days, and has been occasionally known to last fifteen or sixteen days. There are generally three or four returns of it every season ; it blows with a moderate force, not so strongly as the sea-breeze, but somewhat more so than the land-wind. A fog or haze is one of the... | |
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It comes on indiscriminately at any hour of the day, at any time of the tide, or at any period of the moon ; and continues sometimes only a day or two, sometimes five or six days, and has been occasionally known to last fifteen or sixteen days. 
