 Although the whole coast is low and without harbours, it is not dangerous for navigation, being free from rocks and bold, so that within four or five fathoms from the shore there is twentyfour feet of water at all times of tide, and this depth constantly...  Stories of Discovery Told by Discovers... - Page 112by E. E. Hale - 1882 - 290 pagesFull view - About this book
 | New-York Historical Society - 1841 - 518 pages
...there is twentyfour feet of water at all times of tide, and this depth constantly T increases in a uniform proportion. The holding ground is so good that no ship can part ner cable, however violent the wind, as we proved by experience ; for while riding at anchor on the... | |
 | Conway Robinson, Virginia Historical Society - 1848 - 590 pages
...shore, there is twenty-four feet of water at all times of tide, and this depth constantly increases in a uniform proportion. The holding ground is so good...broken before it started from its hold or moved at all. * In the nnthem pan of what l» now North Carolina, near Cape Fear. 39 grass othei of th. sitnila »T:... | |
 | John Ward Dean, George Folsom, John Gilmary Shea, Henry Reed Stiles, Henry Barton Dawson - 1865 - 510 pages
...all times of tide, and this depth constantly increases in a uniform proportion. The holding-ground is so good that no ship can part her cable, however violent the wind, as we proved by experience." Not such were the observations of those who first navigated these waters. Approaching farther southward,... | |
 | John Ward Dean, George Folsom, John Gilmary Shea, Henry Reed Stiles, Henry Barton Dawson - 1865 - 446 pages
...tide, and this depth constantly increases in a uniform proportion. The holding-ground is so good ;hat no ship can part her cable, however violent the wind, as we proved by experience." Not such were the observations of those who first navigated these waters. Approaching farther southward,... | |
 | HENRY G. MURPHY - 1875 - 222 pages
...shore there is twenty-four feet of water at all times of tide, and this depth constantly increases in a uniform proportion. The holding, ground -is so good...broken before it started from its hold or moved at all. We set sail from this place, continuing to coast along the shore, which we found stretching out to... | |
 | Henry Cruse Murphy - 1875 - 230 pages
...shore there is twenty-four feet of water at all times of tide, and this depth constantly inereases in a uniform proportion. The holding ground is so good...coast, we were overtaken by a gale in the beginning of Mareh, when the winds are high, as is usual in all countries, we found our anchor broken before it... | |
 | Barnard Shipp - 1881 - 720 pages
...there are twenty-four feet of water at all times of tide, and this depth constantly increases in an uniform proportion. The holding ground is so good...before it started from its hold, or moved at all. " We sailed from this place, continuing to coast along the shore, which we found stretching out to... | |
 | Arthur James Weise - 1884 - 442 pages
...sea. The holding ground is so good that no ship can part her cable, however strong the wind may be, as we proved by experience, for while riding at anchor...the winds are high, as is usual in all countries, and we found our anchor broken before it started from its place or moved at all." " March being the... | |
 | Arthur James Weise - 1884 - 446 pages
...feet of water at all times of tide, and this depth uniformly increases as you go farther into the sea. The holding ground is so good that no ship can part her cable, however strong the wind may be, as we proved by experience, for while riding at anchormen the coast we were... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1901 - 544 pages
...water at all times of tide, and this depth constantly increases in a uniform proportion. Theholding ground is so good that no ship can part her cable,...broken before it started from its hold or moved at all. We set sail from this place, continuing to coast along the shore, which we found stretching out to... | |
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