 | William Reid - Navigation - 1838 - 470 pages
...on land, all the light suhstances are carried up in a spiral motion hy it. I have ohserved one pass over Canton river, in which the water ascended like...were moored near its path were suddenly turned round hy its influence. After passing over the river, it was ohserved to strip many trees of their leaves,... | |
 | sir William Reid - 1838 - 474 pages
...on land, all the light suhstances are carried up in a spiral motion hy it. I have ohserved one pass over Canton river, in which the water ascended like...were moored near its path were suddenly turned round hy its influence. After passing over the river, it was ohserved to strip many trees of their leaves,... | |
 | John Purdy - 1845 - 562 pages
...on land, all the light substances are carried up in a spiral motion by it. I have observed one pass over Canton River, in which the water ascended like...carried up a considerable way into the atmosphere." Captain William H. Smyth, in his interesting volume on Sicily and the Sicilian Islands, has noticed,... | |
 | William Reid - Hurricanes - 1846 - 626 pages
...on land, all the light substances are carried up in a spiral motion by it. I have observed one pass over Canton river, in which the water ascended like...carried up a considerable way into the atmosphere." The direction of the wind as reported by ships, I understand to mean the magnetic direction. The dates... | |
 | Henry Piddington - Marine meteorology - 1848 - 432 pages
...9,) once observed all these phoenomena together in a whirlwind. He says— " I have observed one pass over Canton river, in which the water ascended like...observed to strip many trees of their leaves, which, with the light covering of some of the houses and sheds, it carried up a considerable way into the... | |
 | Henry Piddington - Marine meteorology - 1848 - 352 pages
...once observed all these phoenomena together in a whirlwind. He says — " I have observed one pass over Canton river, in which the water ascended like...observed to strip many trees of their leaves, which, with the light covering of some of the houses and sheds, it carried up a considerable way into the... | |
 | John Purdy - 1853 - 614 pages
...on land, all the light substances are carried up in a spiral motion by it. I have observed one pass over Canton River, in which the water ascended like...carried up a considerable way into the atmosphere." Captain William H. Smyth, in his interesting volume on Sicily and the Sicilian Islands, has noticed,... | |
 | Henry Piddington - 1860 - 448 pages
...these phtenomena together in a whirlwind. He says — " I have observed one pass over Canton Hirer, in which the water ascended like a water-spout at...moored near its path were suddenly turned round by its influencc. After passing over the river, it was observed to strip many trees of their leaves, which,... | |
 | Henry Piddington - Hurricanes - 1869 - 458 pages
...says — " I have observed one pass over Canton River, in which the water ascended like a water-epout at sea, and some of the ships that were moored near...observed to strip many trees of their leaves, which, with the light covering of some of the houses and sheds, it carried up a considerable way into the... | |
 | Henry Piddington - Storms - 1889 - 448 pages
...9,) once observed all these phenomena together in a whirlwind. He says — " I have observed one pass over Canton River, in which the water ascended like...some of the ships that were moored near its path were sud denly turned round by its influence. After passing over the river, it was observed to strip many... | |
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I have observed one pass over Canton River, in which the water ascended like a waterspout at sea, and some of the ships that were moored near its path were suddenly turned round by its influence., After passing over the river, it was observed to strip... 