 | Alexander Dalrymple - 1807 - 58 pages
...not go further in than to bring the NW Point of Gorritti to bear SSWJW, or SWbS by compass, with 4i or 5 fathoms good strong clay. With Southerly winds,...ground being uneven, breaks almost the whole way across it in bad weather : The Diomede passed through it to the anchorage, before its dangers were known,... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - Marine insurance - 1822 - 1008 pages
...the NW point " of Goritti to bear SSW half W., or SW by S. by com" pass, with 4* or 5 fathoms stiff clay. With southerly winds, " there is in the east...the whole way " across in bad weather. The Diomede (fifty gun ship) passed " through it to the anchorage before its dangers were known, " and had not... | |
 | Edmund March Blunt - Nautical charts - 1822 - 600 pages
...bear SSW | W. or SW by S. by compass, with four and a half or $ve fathoms, good strong clay. W ith southerly winds there is in the east passage a heavy...whole way across, in bad weather — the Diomede, (50 gun ship) passed through it to the anchorage before its dangers were known, and had not less than... | |
 | John Purdy - 1838 - 420 pages
...farther in than to bring the N.VV. point of Gorriti to bear SSW è Vf., or SW by S. by compass, with 4| or 5 fathoms, good strong clay. With southerly winds...before its dangers were known, and had not less than eighteen feet ; but there are places where there is so little as 1 ^ fathom ; and it is very irregular.... | |
 | John Purdy - Aids to navigation - 1844 - 534 pages
...vessels, except to the westward : and you must not go farther in than to bring the NW point of Gorriti to bear SSW J W., or SW by S. by compass, with 4J...almost the whole way across in bad weather. The Diomede (50-gun ship) passed through it to the anchorage before its dangers were known, and had not less than... | |
 | Pilot guides - 1854 - 644 pages
...except to the westward, and you must not go father in than to br.ng the NW point of Goriti to bear SSW \ W., or SW by S. by compass, with 4J or 5 fathoms,...the whole way across, in bad weather. The Diomede (50-gun ship) passed through to tho anchorage before its dangers were known, and had not less than... | |
 | John Purdy - Africa - 1855 - 634 pages
...farther in than to bring the NW point of Gorriti to bear SSW \ W., or SW by ÍS. by compass, with 4^ or 5 fathoms, good strong clay.* With southerly winds...breaks almost the whole way across in bad weather. The Diomttk (fifty gun ship) passed through it to the anchorage before its dangers were known, and had... | |
 | William Henry Rosser - Marine meteorology - 1862 - 322 pages
...to the roadstead, which can only be safely entered by small vessels ; with southerly winds there is a heavy swell, and the water, from the ground being...breaks almost the whole way across in bad weather. Between the north-east end of Goriti and the main, the water is very shallow, there being several places... | |
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S. by compass, with 4J or 5 fathoms, good strong clay. With southerly winds there is, in the east passage, a heavy swell; and the water, from the ground being uneven, breaks almost the whole way across in bad weather. The Diomede... 