| Mrs. Jamieson (Frances Thurtle) - Costume - 1820 - 538 pages
...has its currents, which agitate its waters, and preserve them from putrefaction. That regular motion of the sea, according to which it ebbs and flows twice in about twenty-four hours, is called its tides. " In its reflux, the sea falls for about six hours, when... | |
| Sir Richard Phillips - Geography - 1821 - 256 pages
...the West Indian and East Indian Islands, and in Mexico and Peru. IV. OF THE TIDES. 30. Those regular motions of the sea, according to which it ebbs and flows, twice in twenty jour hours, are called the TIDES. Illus. 1 . When the sea, in its flux, has risen for about... | |
| Alexander Jamieson - Natural history - 1821 - 448 pages
...has its currents, which agitate its waters, and preserve them from putrefaction. That regular motion of the sea, according to which it ebbs and flows twice in about twenty-four hours, is called its tides. In its reflux, the sea falls for about six hours, when... | |
| Joseph Emerson Worcester - Atlases - 1822 - 354 pages
...southern tropic, this arrangement of the seasons is entirely reversed. TIDES. The tides are the regular motions of the sea, according to which it ebbs and flows twice every 23 hours. They arc caused chiefly by the attraction of the moon, modified in some degree by that... | |
| sir Richard Phillips - 1834 - 248 pages
...the West Indian and East Indian islands, and in Mexico and Peru. IV. OF THE TIDES. 30. Those regular motions of the sea, according to which it ebbs and flows twice in twenty-fonr hours, are called the TIDES. it remains, in like manner, as it were, suspended and in equilibrio... | |
| William Guthrie - 1843 - 848 pages
...that this sea has acquired the name of the Ruins. Time.— By the Tide is meant that regular motion of the sea, according to which it ebbs and flows twice in twenty-four hours. Sir Isaac Newton was the first who satisfactorily explained the cause and nature of the tides, by his... | |
| Joseph Emerson Worcester - Classical geography - 1844 - 362 pages
...land, presenting a varied scene of mountains, rocks, and valleys. 9. Tides. — The tides are regular motions of the sea, according to which it ebbs and flows twice every twentyfive hours. They are caused chiefly by the attraction of the moon, modified, in some degree,... | |
| William Hewitt - Norfolk (England) - 1844 - 120 pages
...itself on the consideration of so difficult a subject. By the term tide is meant that regular motion of the sea, according to which it ebbs and flows twice in the twenty-four hours. After some wild conjectures of the earliest philosophers, observes Goldsmith,... | |
| Richard Phillips (sir.) - 1851
...deep long after it has been roused by the distant storm or the hurricane. T1DES. 55. Those regular motions of the sea, according to which it ebbs and flows twice in twenty-four hours, are called the T1DES. (1.) When the sea, in its flow, has risen for about six hours, it remains, as... | |
| J. J. Hooke - 1867 - 280 pages
...burst. THE TIDES. What are the tides ? The constant motions of the sea, according to which it ebbs-and flows twice in twenty-four hours. What do you mean...land, which it continues to do for about six hours ; when it remains at rest or in equilibrium for ten or fifteen minutes ; it then turns, and recedes... | |
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