 A great wave swept over the coast of Spain, and is said to have been sixty feet high at Cadiz. At Tangier, in Africa, it rose and fell eighteen times on the coast; at Funchal, in Madeira, it rose full fifteen feet perpendicular above high-water mark,...  The Lithology of Edinburgh - Page 96by John Fleming - 1859 - 102 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Duns - 1863 - 650 pages
...coast of Spain, and is said to have been sixty feet high at Cadiz. At Tangier, in Africa, it rose and fell eighteen times on the coast. At Funchal, in Madeira,...which ebbs and flows there seven feet, was then at half-ebb. Besides entering the city and committing great havoc, it overflowed other seaports in the... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1865 - 880 pages
...coast of Spain, and is said to have been sixty feet high at Cadiz. At Tangier, in Africa, it rose and fell eighteen times on the coast. At Funchal, in Madeira,...although the tide, which ebbs and flows there seven fee'was then at half-ebb. Besides entering the city; and committing gi**' havoc, it overflowed other... | |
 | Friedrich Otto Froembling - 1866 - 438 pages
...coast of Spain, and is said to have been sixty feet high at Cadiz. At Tangier, in Africa, it rose and fell eighteen times on the coast; at Funchal, in Madeira,...which ebbs and flows there seven feet, was then at half-ebb. Besides entering the city and committing great havoc, it overflowed other seaports in the... | |
 | Anthony Trollope - 1869 - 798 pages
...several times. " At Funchal ia Madeira," writes Lyell, " it rose full fifteen feet p¡ rpeudicularly above high-water mark, although the tide, — which...and flows there seven feet,- — was then at half ebh. Besides entering the city :.ai committing great havoc, it overflowed other seaports in the island.... | |
 | George William Fitch - 1867 - 142 pages
...coast of Spain, and is said to have been sixty feet hierh at Cadiz. At Tangier, in Africa, it rose and fell eighteen times on the coast : at Funchal, in Madeira, it rose fifteen feet above high-water mark. 195. Earthquakes have caused an immense dt strnction of life and... | |
 | English literature - 1874 - 274 pages
...over the coast of Spain, and ia said to have been sixty feet high at Cadiz. At Tangiers it rose and fell eighteen times on the coast; at Funchal, in Madeira, it rose full fifteen feet above highwater mark, although the tide, which ebbs and flows there seven feet, was then at half-ebb.... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1874 - 692 pages
...full 1 5 feet perpendicular above high-water mark, although the tide, which ebbs and flows there 7 feet, was then at half ebb. Besides entering the city, and committing great bavoc, it overflowed other seaports in the island. At Kinsale, in Ireland, a body of water rushed into... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1881 - 856 pages
...coast of Spain, and is paid to have been sixty feet high nt Cadiz. At Tangier, in Africa, it rose and fell eighteen times on the coast ; at Funchal, in...Madeira, it rose full fifteen feet perpendicular above bigh-watei mark, although the tide, which ebbs and flows there seven feet, was then at half -ebb. Besides... | |
 | Uriah Smith - 1884 - 902 pages
...coast of Spain, and is said to have been sixty feet high at Cadiz. At Tangier, in Africa, it rose and fell eighteen times on the coast ; at Funchal, in...above high-water mark, although the tide, which ebbs arid flows there seven feet, was then at half ebb. Besides entering the city and committing great havoc,... | |
 | 1886 - 636 pages
...over the coast of Spain, and is said to have been sixty feet high at Cadiz. At Tangier it rose and fell eighteen times on the coast. At Funchal in Madeira...fifteen feet perpendicular above high-water mark." " At Kinsale, in Ireland, a body of water rushed into the harbour, whirled round several vessels, and... | |
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