American practical navigator: an epitome of navigation and nautical astronomy (1914)
Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838, United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Equipment, Logan, George Wood, 1868-1915 · Washington, Govt. Print. Off. · leaf 231
ied by heavy rain squalls and arapid increase in force. The generaldistribution of pressure and tlie sm*-roundmg winds are shown in figure 76. The changes in wind and pressure ensuemuch more rapidly in the case of a westward-bound vessel than in that of one east-ward bound, the rate at which the… … Hi^h Fig. 76. CHAPTER XX. TIDES. 4:90. Definitions.—Tidal phenomena present tliemselves to the observerunder two aspects—as alternate elevations and depressions of the sea, and as recur-rent inflows and outflows of streams. The word tide, in common and general usage,is made to refer without…
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