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" A boat, which may be supposed to receive no impulse from the winds, would require thirteen months, from the Canary Islands, to reach the coast of Caraccas ; ten months to make the tour of the Gulf of Mexico and reach Tortoise Shoals, opposite the port... "
The Atlantic Navigator: Being a Nautical Description of the Coasts of France ... - Page 520
1854 - 532 pages
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Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the ..., Volume 1

Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1814 - 372 pages
...to make the tour of the gulf of Mexico and reach Tortoise Shoals opposite the port of the Havannah, while forty or fifty days might be sufficient to carry...Africa: estimating the mean velocity of the waters at seven or eight miles in twenty-four hours, we find ten or pJeven months for this last distance. Su.ch...
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Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the ..., Volume 1

Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1814 - 372 pages
...to make the tour of the gulf of Mexico and reach Tortoise Shoals opposite the port of the Havannah, while forty or fifty days might be sufficient to carry it from the straits of Florida to the brmk of Newfoundland. It would be difficult to fix the rapidity of the retrograde current from this...
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Facts authentic, in science and religion: designed to illustrate a new tr ...

William Cowherd - 1818 - 728 pages
...months, to make the tour of the gulf of Mexico and reach Tortoise-shoals opposite the port of Havanna!) ; while forty or fifty days might be sufficient to carry...to the bank of Newfoundland. It would be difficult indeed, to li\ the rapidity of the retrograde current irom this bank to the coasts of Africa : estimating...
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Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the ..., Volumes 1-2

Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1818 - 666 pages
...Gulf of Mexico and reach Tortoise Shoals opposite the port of the Havannah, while forty or fifty clays might be sufficient to carry it from the Straits of Florida to the 57 bank of Newfoundland. It would be difficult is fix the rapidity of the retrograde current from this...
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Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the ..., Volumes 1-2

Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1822 - 762 pages
...sufficient to carry it from the Straits of Florida to the 57 bank of Newfoundland. It would be difficultto fix the rapidity of the retrograde current from this...Africa : estimating the mean velocity of the waters at seven or eight miles in twenty-four hours, we find ten or eleren months for this last distance. Such...
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The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine

1850 - 704 pages
...Venezuela ; ten months to make a tour of the Gulf of Mexico, and reach Tortoise-Shoals, opposite Havana ; while forty or fifty days might be sufficient to carry it from the Strait of Florida to the bank of Newfoundland. At a time when the art of navigation was in its infancy,...
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Physical Geography

H. J. Lloyd - 1828 - 80 pages
...make the tour of the Gulf of Mexico and reach Tortoise Shoals, opposite the port of the Havannah ; while forty or fifty days might be sufficient to carry...Africa : estimating the mean velocity of the waters at seven or eight miles in twenty-four hours, we find ten or eleven months for this last distance." It...
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Monthly Review; Or Literary Journal Enlarged

1829 - 682 pages
...shoals, opposite the port of the Havannah ; while forty or fifty days might be sufficient to carry if from the straits of Florida to the bank of Newfoundland....Africa : estimating the mean velocity of the waters at seven or eight months in twenty-four hours, we find ten or eleven months for this last distance. It...
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A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art ..., Volume 3

Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 852 pages
...months to make the lour of the Gulf of Mexico and reach Tortoise shoals, opposite the port of Havannah, while forty or fifty days might be sufficient to carry it from the Straits of Florida to the banks of Newfoundland. Estimating the Telocity of the water at seven or eight miles in twenty-four...
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Library of Useful Knowledge: Natural philosophy, Volume 3

1834 - 578 pages
...make the tour of the Gulf of Mexico and reach Tortoise Shoals, opposite the port of the Havannah ; while forty or fifty days might be sufficient to carry...Africa : estimating the mean velocity of the waters at seven or eight miles in twenty-four hours, we find ten or eleven months for this last distance." It...
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