 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1832 - 626 pages
...the waves, and buried under a mass of matter which may exclude the corroding action of seawater. 1 But the reader must not imagine that the fury of war...an average, to no less than one and a half daily, a greater number than we should have anticipated, although we learn from Moreau's tables that the number... | |
 | English literature - 1832 - 574 pages
...year 1793 to the commencement of 1829, it has appeared that the number of British vessels •lone, lost during that period, amounted, on an average, to no less than one and a half daily. We learn from Moreau's tables, that the number of merchant vessels employed at one time in the navigation... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1832 - 306 pages
...SKA. — From an examination of Lloyd's lists from the year 1793 to the commencement of 1829, it nos appeared that the number of British vessels alone...on an average, to no less than one and a half daily ; — a greater number than we should have anticipated, although we learn from Moreau's tables that... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1832 - 358 pages
...vessel when they decay, and beneath these and the metallic substances the bones of man may be preserved. When we reflect on the number of curious monuments...on an average, to no less than one and a half daily *, a greater number than we should have anticipated, although we learn from Moreau's tables that the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1832 - 618 pages
...together much curious information to illustrate the amount and kind of the supply of such articles. ' When we reflect on the number of curious monuments...an average, to no less than one and a half daily, a greater number than we should have anticipated, although we learn from Moreau's tables that the number... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1832 - 614 pages
...together much curious information to illustrate the amount and kind of the supply of such articles. ' When we reflect on the number of curious monuments...an average, to no less than one and a half daily, a greater number than we should have anticipated, although we learn from Moreau's tables that the number... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1832 - 614 pages
...earliest times, our conceptions are greatly raised respecting the multiplicity of lasting memoriuls which man is leaving of his labours. During our last...an average, to no less than one and a half daily, a greater number than we should have anticipated, although we learn from Moreau's tables that the number... | |
 | Books - 1832 - 650 pages
...not imagine that the fury of war is more conducive than the peaceful spirit of commercial enterprize to the accumulation of wrecked vessels in the bed...an average, to no less than one and a half daily, a greater number than we should have anticipated, although we learn from Moreau's tables that the number... | |
 | Charles Lyell - 1833 - 366 pages
...these and the metallic substances the bones of man may be preserved. Number of wrecked vessels.'—When we reflect on the number of curious monuments consigned...on an average, to no less than one and a half daily *, a greater number than we should have anticipated, although we learn from Mbreau's tables that the... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1833 - 850 pages
...1829» It has appeared that the number of British vessels alone, lost during that period, •mounted, on an average, to no less than one and a half daily. We learn, from Moreau's tables, that the number of merchant-vessels employed at one time in the navigation... | |
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From an examination of Lloyd's lists from the year 1793, to the commencement of 1829, it has appeared that the number of British vessels alone lost during that period amounted, on an average, to no less than one and a half daily *, a greater number than... 
