 | Richard Snowden - 1805 - 398 pàgines
...it was seldom necessary to shift a sail. About four hundred leagues west of the Canaries the sea was so covered with weeds that it resembled a meadow of vast extent, and was in some places so thick as to impede the progress of the vessels. This was cause of fresh alarm... | |
 | William Robertson - 1809 - 382 pàgines
...between the tropics and a few degrees beyond them. He advanced before this steady gale with such uniform rapidity, that it was seldom necessary to shift a...they were so thick, as to retard the motion of the vesselsi This strange appearance occasioned new alarm and d'sqaiet. The sailors imagined that they... | |
 | Joseph Sympson - 1810 - 224 pàgines
...Ameriea. F.—Page 69. - Through slimy weeds With sluggish paee the keel at Jtrst proeeeds. WHEN ahout four hundred leagues to the west of the Canaries he found the sea so eovered with weeds, that it resemhled a meadow of vast extent, and in some plaees they were so thiek... | |
 | Joseph Sympson - 1810 - 226 pàgines
...F.-Pagfe 69. • Through slimy weeds With sluggish pace the keel at first prweedt. WHEN ahout tour hundred leagues to the west of the Canaries he found the sea so eovered with weeds, that it resemhled a meadow of vast extent, and in some plaees they were so thiek... | |
 | William Robertson - 1813 - 490 pàgines
...the tropics and a few degtees beyond them. He advanced before this steady gale •with such uniform rapidity, that it was seldom necessary to shift a...weeds, that it resembled a meadow of vast extent, and iu some places they were so thick as to retard the motion of the vessels. This strange appearance occasioned... | |
 | William Robertson - 1813 - 620 pàgines
...degrees beyond them. He advanced before this steady gale with such uniform rapidity, that it was scldom necessary to shift a sail. When about four hundred...it resembled a meadow of vast extent, and in some place? they were so thick as to retard the motion of the vessels. This strange appearance occasioned... | |
 | William Robertson - 1817 - 448 pàgines
...between the tropics and a few degrees beyond them. He advanced before this steady gale with such uniform rapidity, that it was seldom necessary to shift a...vessels. This strange appearance occasioned new alarm and disquiet. The sailors imagined that they were now arrived at the utmost boundary of the navigable... | |
 | William Robertson - 1817 - 470 pàgines
...between the tropics and a few degrees beyond them. He advanced before this steady gale with such uniform rapidity, that it was seldom necessary to shift a...vessels. This strange appearance occasioned new alarm and disquiet. The sailors imagined that they were now arrived at the utmost boundary of the navigable... | |
 | William Robertson - 1817 - 448 pàgines
...between the tropics and a few degrees beyond them. He advanced before this steady gale with such uniform rapidity, that it was seldom necessary to shift a...meadow of vast extent, and in some places they were s» thick, as to retard the motion of the vessels. This strange appearance occasioned new alarm and... | |
 | R. P. Forster - 1818 - 514 pàgines
...the tropics and a few degrees be. yond them. He advanced before this steady gale with such uniform rapidity, that it was seldom necessary to shift a sail. When about 400 leagues to the west of the Canaries, he found the sea so covered with weeds, thq£ it resembled... | |
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... them. He advanced before this steady gale with such uniform rapidity, that it was seldom necessary to shift a sail. When about four hundred leagues to the west of the Canaries, he found the sea so covered with weeds, that it resembled a meadow of... 
