 | Books - 1824 - 564 pages
...moderated by it§ passage over the sea, to a tolerable degree of temperature ; and on the east coast, where it first arrives, its effects are inconsiderable...above the horizon, in a direction parallel to it. The thermometer does not, at first, experience a very sensible change, though it rises with the continuance... | |
 | William Henry Smyth - Geology - 1824 - 440 pages
...moderated by its passage over the sea, to a tolerable degree of temperature ; and on the east coast, where it first arrives, its effects are inconsiderable...above the horizon, in a direction parallel to it. The thermometer does not, at first, experience a very sensible change, though it rises with the continuance... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - Periodicals - 1824 - 570 pages
...the day-time are more violent, and of longer duration, than those which spring up during the night. seeming to acquire additional heat in its progress...above the horizon, in a direction parallel to it. The thermometer does not, at first, experience a very sensible change, though it rises with the continuance... | |
 | English literature - 1824 - 696 pages
...troublesome wind is the Sirocco, or South East, which seems to acquire heat as it passes over the land. " At its commencement the air is dense and hazy, with...above the horizon in a direction parallel to it." P. 5. Captain Smyth is of opinion that the heat of this wind is more oppressive, and the lassitude... | |
 | John Purdy - 1826 - 402 pages
...moderated by its passage over the sea to a tolerable degree of temperature ; and on the east coast, where it first arrives, its effects are inconsiderable...advances. At its commencement the air is dense and heavy, with long wnite clouds settling a little below the summits of the mountains, and at sea floating... | |
 | Richard Duppa - Architecture - 1829 - 560 pages
...our confidence. He says, " that as the Sirocco comes from the deserts of Africa, it is moderated in its passage over the sea to a tolerable degree of...above the horizon, in a direction parallel to it. The thermometer does not at first experience a very sensible change, though it rises with the continuance... | |
 | Richard Duppa - Architecture - 1829 - 558 pages
...our confidence. He says, " that as the Sirocco comes from the deserts of Africa, it is moderated in its passage over the sea to a tolerable degree of...hazy, with long white clouds, settling a little below J:he summits of the mountains, and at sea, floating just above the horizon, in a direction parallel... | |
 | William Nugent Glascock - Great Britain - 1836 - 730 pages
...violently without a corresponding effect upon the mercury. " The most annoying wind is the sirocco.* At its commencement the air is dense and hazy, with long, white clouds setting a little below the summit of the mountains, and, at sea, floating just above the horizon ,... | |
 | Edward Jennings - 1843 - 132 pages
...violently without a corresponding effect upon the mercury. " The most annoying wind is the sirocco. At its commencement the air is dense and hazy, with long white clouds setting a little below the summit of the mountains, and at sea floating just above the horizon, in... | |
 | William Henry Smyth - Mediterranean Region - 1854 - 568 pages
...regions around is The •»•the scirocco, or south-easter, a wind detested equally by the ancients and moderns ; being, no doubt, the evil vapour of Homer...clouds settling a little below the summits of the indication* mountains, and at sea, floating just above the horizon, in a ecirooco. direction parallel... | |
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... where it first arrives, its effects are inconsiderable ; but seeming to acquire additional heat in its progress over the land, becomes a serious inconvenience as it advances. At its commencement the air is dense and hazy, with long white clouds settling... 
