 | Books and bookselling - 1799 - 500 pages
...and circling round, the whole looks like a column of water, till it breaks into foam, and fubftdes. The care of this important beacon is committed to...the Edyftone for many months, a proper quantity of tail provition is always laid up, as in a (hip victualled for a long voyage. In high winds fuch a brimy... | |
 | 1821 - 438 pages
...and circling round, the whole look* like a column of water, till it breaks into foam, and subsides. The care of this important beacon is committed to...the charge of it by turns, and are relieved every six weeks. But as it often happens, especially in stormy weather, that boats cannot touch at the Edystone... | |
 | Old Sailor - Naval biography - 1826 - 534 pages
...and circling round, the whole looks like a column of water, till it breaks into foam, and subsides. The care of this important beacon is committed to...the charge of it by turns, and are relieved every six weeks. But as it often happens, especially in stormy weather, that boats cannot touch at the Eddy... | |
 | 1832 - 548 pages
...height over its top. The following account of this drear; abode is from a laie London paper. — NY Ob. The care of this important beacon is committed to...the charge of it by turns, and are relieved every six weeks. But, as it often happens, especially in stormy weather, that boats cannot touch at the Eddystone... | |
 | 1832 - 618 pages
...foam, and subsides. • SėėlMir. Smeaton's Accotmt of the Eddystone. 2D. SERIES, NO. 17. — VOl. II. The care of this important beacon is committed to...the charge of it by turns, and are relieved every six weeks. But as it often happens, especially in stormy weather, that boats cannot touch at the Eddystone... | |
 | English periodicals - 1832 - 524 pages
...become, if not a great, at least a very remarkable people, if left alone. THE EDDYSTONE LIGHT-HOUSE. TUB care of this important beacon is committed to four...the charge of it by turns, and are relieved every six weeks. But as it often happens, especially in stormy weather, that boats cannot touch at the Eddystone... | |
 | English periodicals - 1832 - 526 pages
...become, if not a great, at least a very remarkable people, if left alone. THE EDDYSTONE LIGHT-HOUSE. THE care of this important beacon is committed to...the charge of it by turns, and are relieved every six weeks. But as it often happens, especially in stormy weather, that boats cannot touch at the Eddystone... | |
 | Chronicles of the sea - 1838 - 488 pages
...and circling round the whole looks like a column of water, till it breaks into a foam, and subsides. The care of this important beacon is committed to...the charge of it by turns, and are relieved every six weeks. But as it often happens, especially in stormy weather, that boats cannot touch at the Eddystone... | |
 | Joseph Foulkes Winks - 1837 - 806 pages
...and, circling round, the whole looks like a column of water, till it breaks into foam, and subsides. The care of this important beacon is committed to four men ; two of whom take charge of it by turns, and are relieved every six weeks. But, as it often happens, especially in stormy... | |
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The care of this important beacon is committed to four men ; two of whom take the charge of it by turns, and are relieved every six weeks. But as it often happens, especially in stormy weather, that boats cannot touch at the Eddystone for many months,... 