 ... eddies. It is owing probably to the meeting of the harbour and lateral currents with the main one, the latter being forced over in this direction by the opposite point of Pezzo. This agrees in some measure with the relation of Thucydides, who calls...  The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal - Page 4031825Full view - About this book
 | George William D. Evans - 1835 - 404 pages
...direction by the opposite point of Pezzo. This agrees, in some measure, with the relation of Thucydides, who calls it a violent reciprocation of the Tyrrhene...danger its true situation*, and not exaggerated its effects." In this passage, in order to avoid the violent suction occasioned by the whirling of the... | |
 | William Hone - Days - 1835 - 924 pages
...direction by the opposite point of Pezzo. This agrees in some measure with the relation of Thucydides, who calls it a violent reciprocation of the Tyrrhene...danger its true situation, and not exaggerated its effects. Many wonderful stories are told respecting this vortex, particularly some said to have been... | |
 | 1836 - 422 pages
...direction by the opposite point of Pezzo. This agrees in some measure with the relation of Thucydides, who calls it a violent reciprocation of the Tyrrhene...danger its true situation, and not exaggerated its effects. Many wonderful stones are told respecting this vortex, particularly some said to have been... | |
 | Thucydides - 1836 - 718 pages
...direction by the opposite point ol Pezzo. This agrees in some measure with the relation of Thucydide*! who is the only writer of remote antiquity , I remember...danger its true situation, and not exaggerated its effects." SMYTH. Memoir of Sicily, p. 123 sq. ap. Arn. 25. то те if ту Mtaar¡vr¡ xaC] Olim... | |
 | William Hone - 1837 - 922 pages
...direction by the opposite point of 1'ciio. This agrees in some measure with the lelation of Thucydides, who calls it a violent reciprocation of the Tyrrhene...who has assigned this danger its true situation, and nut exaggerated its effects. Many wondrtful stories are told respecting this voitex. particularly some... | |
 | William Hone - Great Britain - 1838 - 890 pages
...direction by the opposite point of Pezzo. This agrees in some measure with the relation of Thucydides, who calls it a violent reciprocation of the Tyrrhene...danger its true situation, and not exaggerated its effects. Many wonderful stories are told respecting this vortex, particularly some said to have been... | |
 | Chronicles of the sea - 1838 - 488 pages
...This agrees in some measure with the relation of Thucydides, who calls it a violent reciprocation of Tyrrhene and Sicilian seas ; and he is the only writer...who has assigned this danger its true situation, and net exaggerated its effects. Many wonderful stories antold respecting this vortex, particularly some... | |
 | Thucydides - Greece - 1841 - 358 pages
...direction by the opposite point of Pezzo. This agrees in some measure with the relation of Thucydides, who is the only writer of remote antiquity, I remember...to have read, who has assigned this danger its true situa' tion, and not exaggerated its effects." Captain Smyth, Memoir on Sicily, pp. 123, 124. 14. то... | |
 | Albert Henry Payne - 1844 - 270 pages
...direction, by the opposite point of Pezzo. This agrees in some measure with the relation of Thucydides, who calls it a violent reciprocation of the Tyrrhene...its true situation, and not exaggerated its effect. GOLD WASHING IN BRAZIL. THE extensive and fertile region known under the general name of Brazil, is... | |
 | Hakluyt Society - Voyages and travels - 1847 - 126 pages
...direction by the opposite point of Pezzo. This agrees in some measure with the relation of Thucydides, who calls it a violent reciprocation of the Tyrrhene...danger its true situation, and not exaggerated its effects." (Abridged from Smyth's Mediterranean, pp. 180-1). Our author seems to mix up the two phenomena... | |
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