 | Neil Arnott - 1827 - 692 Seiten
...them loftier still. No wave rises more than ten feet above the ordinary level, which, with the ten feet that its surface afterwards descends below this,...feet for the whole height, from the bottom of any water-valley to the summit. This proposition is easily proved by trying the height upon a ship's mast... | |
 | 1835 - 904 Seiten
...them loftier still. No waves rise liigher than ten feet above the ordinary level, which, with the ten feet that its surface afterwards descends below this,...whole height, from the bottom of any water valley to its summit."* Upon what data this positive assertion has been drawn, does not appear; but we have every... | |
 | 1832 - 548 Seiten
...feet above the orninary level, which, with the ten feet that its surface afterwards descends belo'» this, gives twenty feet for the whole height, from the bottom of any water-valiey to the summit. This proposition is easily proved, by trying the height upon a ship's ma«t... | |
 | 1834 - 506 Seiten
...them loftier still. No wave rises more than ten feet above the ordinary level, which, with the ten feet that its surface afterwards descends below this,...feet for the whole height, from the bottom of any water-valley to the summit. This proposition is easily proved, by trying the height upon a ship's mast... | |
 | 1835 - 522 Seiten
...them loftier still. No wave rises more than ten feet above the ordinary level, which, with the ten feet that its surface afterwards descends below this,...height, from the bottom of any water valley to the summit. This proposition is easily proved, by trying the height upon a ship's mast, at which the horizon... | |
 | 1840 - 320 Seiten
...them loftier still. No wave rises more than ten feet above the ordinary level, which, with the ten feet that its surface afterwards descends below this,...feet for the whole height, from the bottom of any water-valley to the summit. This proposition is easily proved, by trying the height upon a ship's mast... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1842 - 538 Seiten
...thai " no wave rises more than 10 feet above the ordinary sea level, which, with the 10 feet that it« surface afterwards descends below this, gives twenty...French Exploratory Expedition, it appears that Dr. Araott was very nearly right. The maximum height of waves was then found to be 22 feet. Dutch fr'agam.—The... | |
 | 1842 - 934 Seiten
...land, observes that "no wave rises more than ten feet above the ordinary sea level, which, with the ten feet that its surface afterwards descends below this,...whole height, from the bottom of any water valley to an adjoining summit.'" This estimate is probably correct, though other writers have asserted that the... | |
 | 1842 - 886 Seiten
...land, observes that "no wave rises more than ten feet above the ordinary sea level, which, with the ten feet that its surface afterwards descends below this,...whole height, from the bottom of any water valley to an adjoining summit." This estimate is probably correct, though other writers have asserted that the... | |
 | Charles W. Vincent, James Mason - 1843 - 468 Seiten
...have asserted that the height of the Waves of the ocean, from the trough to the crest, reaches often 40 and 50 feet. But Dr. Arnott, in his Elements of...Dr. Arnott was very nearly right. The maximum height was then found to be 22 feet. — Mechanics' Magazine. TIDES OF THE FRITH OF FORTH. MR. SCOTT RUSSELL... | |
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So awful is the spectacle of a storm at sea, that it is generally viewed through a medium which biases the judgment; and, lofty as waves really are, imagination makes them loftier still. 
