 | John Jay Williams - 1852 - 372 páginas
...of it is mixed with clay. The depth is almost regularly graduated: it presents at from 350 to 8000 feet distance from the shore, a progressive running...north-northeast wind usually begins to blow about the 15th of October and ceases in the forepart of April. In the month of November it blows without interruption,... | |
 | MAJOR J. G BARNARD - 1852 - 306 páginas
...of it is mixed with clay. The depth is almost regularly graduated : it presents at from 350 to 8000 feet distance from the shore, a progressive running...Isthmus. The first of these two atmospheric currents is ndt felt at sixty miles east of La Ventosa, beyond the Barra de Tonala ; nor at sixty-two miles west,... | |
 | John Jay Williams - 1852 - 438 páginas
...per hundred feet for the following thousand feet. The greatest difference that has been observed iu the level of the water was six and a half feet. Besides...of Chahuhe, which bounds on the west the lagoon of Tenguluuda. The north-northeast wind usually begins to blow about the 15th of October and ceases in... | |
 | John Jay Williams - 1852 - 688 páginas
...the water was six and a half feet. * Besides the variable winds, which are rather light, and the laud and sea breezes of the morning and evening, two prevalent...north-northeast wind usually begins to blow about the 15th of October and ceases in the forepart of April. In the month of November it blows without interruption,... | |
 | United States. Hydrographic Office - 1887 - 152 páginas
...and the land and sea breezes of the morning and evening, two prevalent winds, the NNE. and SSW., blow during a great portion of the year on the southern coast of the isthmus. The first of these is not felt to the eastward beyond the Boca of Tonala, nor to the westward beyond the mountains of... | |
 | United States. Hydrographic Office - 1918 - 438 páginas
...the morning and evening, two prevailing winds, the north-northeasterly and south-southwesterly, blow during a great portion of the year on the southern coast of the isthmus. The first of these is not felt to the eastward beyond the Tonala Boca, nor to the westward beyond the mountains of Chahuhe.... | |
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... for the first thousand feet, two feet increase per hundred feet, and about six inches per hundred feet for the following thousand feet. The greatest difference that has been observed in the level of the water was six and a half feet. Besides the variable... 