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Page 77
The tides rise and fall so much along this coast , and the depth of water within the mouths of the rivers is so small , that when the tide is low the bed of the large basin and the channel between the two long piers leading from it out ...
The tides rise and fall so much along this coast , and the depth of water within the mouths of the rivers is so small , that when the tide is low the bed of the large basin and the channel between the two long piers leading from it out ...
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a vast expanse of mud , in which boats , smacks , and vessels of all sorts lie embedded , some more or less upright , and others tilted down upon their sides - all , of course , wholly immovable until the next tide comes in to float ...
a vast expanse of mud , in which boats , smacks , and vessels of all sorts lie embedded , some more or less upright , and others tilted down upon their sides - all , of course , wholly immovable until the next tide comes in to float ...
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The tidal harbors constructed by means of artificial piers on the French side of the channel are wholly insufficient , as has already been said , for the purposes of men of war . For these an extensive anchorage ground is required ...
The tidal harbors constructed by means of artificial piers on the French side of the channel are wholly insufficient , as has already been said , for the purposes of men of war . For these an extensive anchorage ground is required ...
Page 81
It is true that ships when they are to remain for a long time in the same position may be moored head and stern , in which case they are held fixed in one position , and are prevented from swinging round with the tide .
It is true that ships when they are to remain for a long time in the same position may be moored head and stern , in which case they are held fixed in one position , and are prevented from swinging round with the tide .
Page 82
... and in connection with two islands not far from the two ends of it , shelters a sheet of water containing many square miles . It is built up from the bottom of the sea , where the water at high tide is forty or fifty feet deep .
... and in connection with two islands not far from the two ends of it , shelters a sheet of water containing many square miles . It is built up from the bottom of the sea , where the water at high tide is forty or fifty feet deep .
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Page 43 - Ocean, the first thing which strikes us is, that, the north-east and south-east monsoons, which are found the one on the north and the other on...
Page 33 - Lord ivas with me and made all things easy, though my dear friend and I were separated one at one end of the town and the other at the other, and both under locks and bolts ; the said Davis swearing desperately that we should never come out nor see one another again all his time. And yet in two weeks' time he let me out again and her also.
Page 183 - Grimkie said that the best thing they could do would be to go and see the Castle of Mont Orgueil.
Page 193 - Florence established herself upon the sofa, and the two boys in arm-chairs near the fire, each with a large slice of bread and butter in one hand and a piece of cheese in the other, and their tumblers of milk on corners of the table within reach.
Page 69 - There was a large table in the middle of the room, with broad boxes filled with laces upon it, and other boxes in cases about the room.
Page 80 - ... strongly support Senator Mitchell's bill, S. 1639. The establishment of a Board such as is proposed in your bill is vitally necessary in the interest of military and commercial expansion of our national air power. If is an open secret that in the 1930's technological improvements placed German air power far in advance of that of any other nation in the world, and the stern necessity of mastering that power, rather than our own foresight, was the determining factor in World War II. Certainly,...
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| Title | The Florence Stories The Florence Stories, Jacob Abbott |
| Author | Jacob Abbott |
| Publisher | Sheldon, 1867 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 1 Apr 2008 |
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