The Sailor's Horn-book for the Law of Storms: Being a Practical Exposition of the Theory of the Law of Storms, and Its Uses to Mariners of All Classes in All Parts of the World Shewn by Transparant Storm Cards and Useful Lessons |
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Common terms and phrases
American Andaman Sea appear approach Arabian Sea Atlantic atmosphere barometer Barque Bay of Bengal Bermuda blowing Calcutta Caledonia calm Cape Captain centre Chart China China Sea clouds Coast Colonel REID compass course curved described distance East Easterly Eastward electric experienced fall gale Gulf of Mexico heavy hove hurricane incurving Indian Ocean instance Islands J. A. S. Beng Jour latitude Law of Storms light Madras masts Mauritius Memoir miles per hour monsoon Nautical nearly North Northern Northward noted observed occur Pacific Ocean passed phænomena phænomenon probably rain REDFIELD remarkable rise rotatory round sail sailor says scudding seaman seen severe Cyclone shew shewn shift ship shore side simpiesometer South Southern hemisphere Southern Indian Ocean Southward squalls Storm Card Storm-wave suppose tempests Thom thunder tornado track true Cyclone tyfoon usual vapour vessel violence water-spouts wave weather West Westerly Westward whirling whirlwinds
Popular passages
Page 178 - SCOTCH 555 have expressed himself thus ? And let me add, that, citizen of the world as I hold myself to be, I have that degree of predilection for my natale solum, nay, I have that...
Page 108 - ... might be found any course of wind, from the rotative to the rectilinear, together with varying conditions as regards clouds and rain. " But I have never been able to conceive that the wind in violent storms moves only in circles. On the contrary, a vortical movement, approaching to that which may be seen in all lesser vortices, aerial or aqueous, appears to be an essential element of their violent and long continued action, of their increased energy towards the centre or axis, and of the accompanying...
Page 22 - But it by no means follows that this must always be the case. In general, a rapid transfer, either way, in latitude, of any mass of air which local or temporary causes might carry above the immediate reach of the friction of the earth's surface, would give a fearful exaggeration to its velocity. Wherever such a mass should strike the earth, a hurricane might arise ; and should two such masses encounter in mid-air, a tornado of any degree of intensity on record might result from their combination.
Page 2 - All these circumstances properly considered clearly manifest the nature of these winds, or rather positively prove them to be whirlwinds, whose diameter cannot be more than 120 miles, and the vortex seems generally near Madras or Pulicat, where a branch of the Ballagat mountains extends towards the sea.
Page 274 - A similar spectacle is described by an officer on board the king's ship Tartarus, during a hurricane on the American coast in the year 1814: — "No horizon appeared, but only a something resembling an immense wall within ten yards of the ship." The power of the wind was remarkably exemplified during the great hurricane of 1780, •which at Barbadoes forced its way into every part of the Government-house, and tore off most of the roof, though the walls were three feet thick, and the doors and windows...
Page 21 - ... mixing with, the lower strata ; and so dashing upon the earth with that tremendous velocity which gives them their destructive character, and of which hardly any rational account has yet been given.
Page 336 - The spots, in this view of the subject, would come to be assimilated to those regions in the earth's surface, in which for the moment hurricanes and tornadoes prevail...
Page 375 - The telegraph now gives notice of storms ! For example, the telegraph at Chicago and Toledo now gives notice to shipmasters at Cleveland and Buffalo, and also on Lake Ontario, of the approach of a north-west storm. The result is practically of great importance. A hurricane storm traverses the atmosphere at about the rate of a carrier pigeon, viz. 60 miles an hour. Our north-west winds come apparently from the sourccsof the Lakes, and sweepingover Lakes Superior, Michigan and Erie, spend themselves...
Page 375 - ... the first. These masses, many of which were as large as a pigeon's egg, were formed of a nucleus of snow or sleet, surrounded by transparent ice, and this again was succeeded by an opaque white layer, followed by a second coating of ice; in some of them I counted five alternations.
Page 194 - At the time of low water, the wharves were overflowed, the water having risen 13 feet in one hour. Previous to the setting in of the gale, the wind was from S. to SE, but changed to the NE at the commencement of the storm, and blew with great fury till evening, and then shifted to the westward.