A text-book of general astronomy : for colleges and scientific schools (1888)
Young, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1834-1908 · Boston ; London : Ginn & Company · leaf 300
ates in Florida, and our coast is so situated that it arrives at allthe principal ports within two or three hours of that time. It is forty-oneor forty-two hours old when it arrives at New York and Boston. To reachLondon it has to travel around the northern end of Scotland and throughthe North Sea,… … 288 THE TIDES. simultaneously, following each other nearly in the same track, but withcontinual minor changes, owing to the variations in the relative positions ofthe sun and moon and their changing distances and declinations. If we takeinto account the tides in rivers and sounds, the number of…
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