| Robert Southey - 1849 - 756 páginas
...596 CLARKE — T. MACGILL — LERY. a distance of twenty versts ; but when the wind changes, and this it sometimes does very suddenly, the waters return...rapidity to their wonted bed, that many lives are lost. In this manner, also, small vessels are stranded. We saw the wrecks of two ; these had cast anchor... | |
| Robert Southey - 1849 - 710 páginas
...dry land to the opposite coast. a (listaiK-o of twenty verets ; but when the wind changes, and this it sometimes does very suddenly, the waters return...rapidity to their wonted bed, that many lives are lost. In this manner, also, small vessels are stranded. We saw the wrecks of two ; these had cast anchor... | |
| Robert Southey - 1850 - 484 páginas
...with gold, and these serve instead of cups for their drink." — HERODOTUS, Mdpomene, c. 64, 65. turn with such rapidity to their wonted bed, that many lives are lost. In this manner, also, small vessels are stranded. We saw the wrecks of two ; these had cast anchor... | |
| William Henry Smyth - 1854 - 568 páginas
...effect a passage on dry land to the opposite coast ; a distance of nearly fourteen miles. And he adds, ' but when the wind changes, which it sometimes does...rapidity to their wonted bed, that many lives are lost In this manner also, small vessels are stranded. We saw the wrecks of two which had cast anchor in... | |
| Marcus Moritz Kalisch - 1855 - 672 páginas
...opposite coast, a distance of twenty versts, equal to fourteen miles; but when the wind changes, and this it sometimes does very suddenly, the waters return...rapidity to their wonted bed that many lives are lost. The depth here is five fathoms." See also Plutarch, in the Life of Lncullus, cap. 24, about his passage... | |
| William E. Manley - 1860 - 408 páginas
...the opposite coast, a distance of 20 versts, equal to 14 miles. But when the wind changes ; and this it sometimes does, very suddenly, the waters return...rapidity to their wonted bed, that many lives are lost. The depth here is five fathoms."* 334. The position of the pillar of cloud and fire is now changed,... | |
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