 | Tempest - 1848 - 316 pages
...that when they break, a large body of water descends, sufficient to sink a ship. Such however is not the case ; for the water descends only in the form of heavy rain, where it is broken from the ascending whirlwind ; but there is danger to small vessels of * Professor... | |
 | Francis Lieber - 1851 - 544 pages
...descent, at the instant of their breaking, of a large body of water sufficient to sink a ship; but this does not appear to be the case, for the water descends...compass, are very common in the vicinity of water-spouts. . WHISKEY; signifying originally water, but applied, in Ireland, and in the highlands and islands of... | |
 | James Covel - 1853 - 560 pages
...to a ship, owing to the descent at the instant of their breaking of a large body of water ; but this does not appear to be the case, for the water descends only in the form of heavy ram. WAY, 1. Is the path in which one walks ; hence " the way of any one," is the way which he is wont... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1855 - 416 pages
...as due to electrical causes. 225. A notion has prevailed that waterspouts are dangerous to shipping. It is true that small vessels incur a risk of being...compass, are very common in the vicinity of waterspouts ; but large vessels, under but a small spread of canvas, encounter, as is said, but little danger.... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1861 - 488 pages
...due to electrical causes. 627. A notion has prevailed that water-spouts are dangerous to shipping. It is true that small vessels incur a risk of being...compass, are very common in the vicinity of waterspouts ; but large vessels, under but a small spread of canvas, encounter, as is said, but little danger.... | |
 | Charles Tomlinson - 1861 - 408 pages
...that when they break a large body of water descends, sufficient to sink a ship. Such however is not the case ; for the water descends only in the form of heavy rain, where it is broken from the ascending whirlwind ; but there is danger to small vessels of being overset... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1862 - 488 pages
...due to electrical causes. 627. A notion has prevailed that water-spouts are dangerous to shipping. It is true that small vessels incur a risk of being...compass, are very common in the vicinity of waterspouts ; but large vessels, under but a small spread of canvas, encounter, as is said, but little danger.... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1870 - 486 pages
...due to electrical causes. 627. A notion has prevailed that water-spouts are dangerous to shipping. It is true that small vessels incur a risk of being...they carry much sail, because sudden gusts of wind, from-all points of the compass, are very common in the vicinity of waterspouts ; but large vessels,... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Annandale - 1901 - 578 pages
...of the vapour is at length absorbed in the air, or it descends to the sea in a heavy shower of rain. Sudden gusts of wind, from all points of the compass, are very common in the vicinity of water-spouts. What are sometimes called icuter - spouts on hind, or cloud • bursty, are merely heavy falls of rain... | |
 | Charles Morris - 1921 - 484 pages
...of the vapor is at length absorbed in the air, or it descends to the sea in a heavy shower of rain. Sudden gusts of wind, from all points of the compass, are very common in the vicinity of waterspouts. What are sometimes called waterspouts on land, or cloudbursts, are merely heavy falb of rain of a local... | |
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... they pass rapidly along the surface of the sea, and continue a quarter of an hour or more before they disappear. A notion has been entertained that they are very dangerous to shipping, owing to the descent, at the instant of their breaking, of a large... 
