| Robert Stawell Ball - 1885 - 612 pages
...Liverpool, from Bristol, we should hear the same story — the rise and fall of the tide had almost ceased. The ships in dock could not get out; the ships outside...of the world would be thrown into dire confusion. It is the moon which, principally, causes the daily ebb and flow of the tide, and this is the most... | |
| 1886 - 470 pages
...Liverpool, from Bristol we should hear the same story — the rise and fall of the tides had almost ceased. The ships in dock could not get out; the ships outside...of the world would be thrown into dire confusion." On the American side of the Atlantic we are not quite so dependent upon the tides as the English seaports... | |
| William Henry Wheeler - 1906 - 246 pages
...fact by a wail from every sea-port in the kingdom. The rise and fall of the tides would almost cease ; the ships in dock could not get out ; the ships outside could not get in ; the maritime commerce of the world would be thrown into confusion." The fleets of fishing-boats around... | |
| Herbert Ernest Gregory, Albert Galloway Keller, Avard Longley Bishop - 1910 - 502 pages
...Liverpool, from Bristol, we should hear the same story — the rise and fall of the tide had almost ceased. The ships in dock could not get out; the ships outside...of the world would be thrown into dire confusion. 1 Sdlc of Milan e 1 ti 4 i Uoljwoll FIG. 1. Mouth of the Mersey and Port of Liverpool Many large rivers... | |
| Herbert Ernest Gregory, Albert Galloway Keller, Avard Longley Bishop - 1910 - 502 pages
...Liverpool, from Bristol, we should hear the same story — the rise and fall of the tide had almost ceased. The ships in dock could not get out ; the ships outside...maritime commerce of the world would be thrown into dire confusion.1 8t.Hcl«n.= Liverpool Mouth of the Mersey and Port of Liverpool Many large rivers without... | |
| Erich Walter Zimmermann - 1921 - 724 pages
...Liverpool, from Bristol, we should hear the same story — the rise and fall of the tide had almost ceased. The ships in dock could not get out ; the ships outside...of the world would be thrown into dire confusion." But that does not mean that a high tidal rise is in itself a desirable characteristic of a great seaport.... | |
| Astronomical Society of the Pacific - 1916 - 654 pages
...would be immeasurable. But let the Moon be annihilated! Immediately the effect would be felt in every shipping port in the world. The ships in dock could...enter now upon the story of the tides; that would make a lecture in itself. But I want to take up one point very briefly. If the Moon raises tides upon... | |
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