Cursory remarks on some parts of a work, entitled Studies of nature ; originally written by M. de Saint Pierre, and translated into English by ... Henry Hunter / [William Cole].

  • Cole, William, active 1807.
Date:
1807
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Credit: Cursory remarks on some parts of a work, entitled Studies of nature ; originally written by M. de Saint Pierre, and translated into English by ... Henry Hunter / [William Cole]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    if served to be very irregular, the Carcass being <c driven at the same time to the eastward. Near the main body of the ice, the detached pieces probably affect the currents and occasion the “ great irregularity which we remarked.” “ July ]7th.—We found the latitude of the. “ island on which the observations were made, to “ be 79° 50] Longitude 10° 27 SO7/ E. The tide rose about four feet, and flow ed at half an hour “ after one, full and change. The tide set irre- <c gularly, from the number of islands between “ which it passed ; but the flood appeared to come from the southward.” 4( July 25th—[At Moffen island] u It was low u water at eleven o’clock when the boat land- c< ed, and the tide appeared to flow7 eight or nine u feet: at that time we found a current carrying’ “ the ship to the N W. from the island, which be- “ fore carried us (at the rate of a mile an hour) towards it.”—It appears extraordinary that none “ of the old Navigators, who are so accurate and “ minute in their descriptions of the coast, have “ taken notice of this island, so remarkable “ and different from every thing we had seen on “ the western coast ; unless we should suppose