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" ... can be raised higher than another. The Mediterranean and Baltic seas have very small elevations, because the inlets by which they communicate with the ocean are so narrow, that they cannot, in so short a time, either receive or discharge enough, sensibly... "
Elements of Natural Philosophy: Embracing the General Principles of ... - Page 224
by Leonard Dunnell Gale - 1838 - 276 pages
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Modern Geography: A Description of the Empires, Kingdoms, States ..., Volume 1

John Pinkerton - Africa - 1804 - 694 pages
...part of the water is raised above the other. The Mediterranean and Baltic Seas have very small tides, because the inlets by which they communicate with...are so narrow that they cannot, in so short a time, receive or discharge enough to raise or sink their surfaces sensibly. In the Mediterranean, the tides...
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Astronomy Explained Upon Sir Isaac Newton's Principles: And Made Easy to ...

James Ferguson - Astronomy - 1809 - 574 pages
...attracts every part of them alike, and therefore by rendering all the water equally light, no part of it can be raised higher than another. The Mediterranean and Baltic seas have very small elevations, because the inlets by which they communicate with the ocean are so narrow, that they cannot in so short...
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A New Treatise on the Use of the Globes, Or, A Philosophical View of the ...

Thomas Keith - Astronomy - 1811 - 388 pages
...she attracts every part of them alike. The Mediterranean and Baltic seas have very small elevations ; because, the inlets by which they communicate with...are so narrow, that they cannot, in so short a time, receive or discharge enough to raise or lower their surfaces sensiblv. .THEOREM X. The time of the...
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Geography Made Easy: Being an Abridgement of the American Universal ...

Jedidiah Morse - Geography - 1814 - 378 pages
...through straits aad inlets, become more various. The Mediterranean and Baltic seas have verf small tides, because the inlets by which they communicate with the ocean are so narrow, that they cannot in sff short time, receive or discharge so rriuch, is sensibly to raise or depress their surfaces. In...
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A New Treatise on the Use of the Globes: Or, A Philosophical View of the ...

Thomas Keith - Astronomy - 1819 - 380 pages
...she attracts every part of them alike. The Mediterranean and Baltic seas have very small elevations, because the inlets by which they communicate with...are so narrow, that they cannot, in so short a time, receive or discharge enough to raise or lower their surfaces sensibly. THEOREM X. The time of the tides...
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The Inverted Scheme of Copernicus: With the Pretended Experiments Upon which ...

Bartholomew Prescot - Astronomy - 1822 - 292 pages
...attracts every part of them alike, and therefore by rendering all the water equally light no part of it can be raised higher than another. The Mediterranean and Baltic seas have very small elevations, because the inlets by which they communicate with the ocean are so narrow, that they cannot, in so...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and ..., Volume 3

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 894 pages
...it can be raised higher than another. The Mediterranean and Baltic seat have very small elevations, because the inlets by which they communicate with...are so narrow, that they cannot, in so short a time, receive or discharge enough to raise or sink their surfaces sensibly. For a more complete discussion...
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Conversations on Natural Philosophy: In which the Elements of that Science ...

Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand), John Lauris Blake - Astronomy - 1826 - 308 pages
...Baltick seas have very small elevationsf because the inlets by which they communicate with the ocean kre so narrow, that they cannot in so short a time either...discharge enough, sensibly to raise or sink their surfaces } 569. Why is it not high water at a place, when the moon is directly over the meridian of it ? 570....
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Conversations on Natural Philosophy: In which the Elements of that Science ...

Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - Astronomy - 1829 - 312 pages
...part can be raised higher than another. The Mediterranean and Baltick seas have very small elevations, because the inlets by which they communicate with the ocean are so narrow, that they cannot in so shert a time either receive or discharge enough, sensibly to raise or sink their surfaces ? 569. Why...
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Guys̕ Elements of Astronomy: And, An Abridgement of Keiths' New Treatise on ...

Joseph Guy - Astronomy - 1832 - 412 pages
...they are generally so small that, when the moon is vertical, she attracts every part of them alike, and by rendering all the waters equally light, no...Mediterranean and Baltic seas have very small elevations, because the inlets by which they communicate with the ocean are so narrow, that they cannot, in so...
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