 | Edmund March Blunt - Nautical charts - 1822 - 600 pages
...bottom changes to sand, which grows coarser as you approach the coast, and as far as seven leagues off shore is intermixed with shells. This bottom is found...in and to the northward of the latitude of Cape St. Mary's, except very close in with it. To the southward of 34° 40' S. the bottom is chiefly mud, intermixed... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - Marine insurance - 1822 - 1008 pages
...the coast ; and as far as 7 miles offshore, is intermixed with shell. This bottom is found only in, to the northward of the latitude of Cape St. Mary, except very close in with this cape. To the southward of 34P 4tf S. the bottom is chiefly mud, intermixed with fine 'sand or... | |
 | John Purdy - 1838 - 420 pages
...bottom changes to sand, which grows coarser as you approach the coast ; and, as far as seven leagues off shore, is intermixed with shells. This bottom is found...to the northward of, the latitude of Cape St. Mary, unless very close in with it. To the southward of 34° 40' S. the bottom is chiefly mud, intermixed... | |
 | John Purdy - Aids to navigation - 1844 - 534 pages
...changes to sand, which grows coarser as you approach the coast; and, as far as 7 leagues off-shore, is intermixed with shells. This bottom is found only...to the northward of, the latitude of Cape St. Mary, unless very close in with it. To the southward of 34° 40' S. the bottom is chiefly mud, intermixed... | |
 | Pilot guides - 1854 - 644 pages
...and was six milee out of his longituda when he made the port of Monte 1 i eo seven leagues off-shore, is intermixed with shells. This bottom is found only...to the northward of, the latitude of Cape St. Mary, unless very close in with it. To the sonthward of 34° 40' S. the bottom is chiefly mud, intermixed... | |
 | John Purdy - Africa - 1855 - 634 pages
...bottom changes to sand, which grows coarser as you approach the coast, and as far as 7 leagues off shore is intermixed with shells. This bottom is found...and to the northward of, the latitude of Cape St. Alary, unless very close iii with it. To the southward of 34° 40' S. the bottom is chiefly mud, intermixed... | |
 | William Henry Rosser - Marine meteorology - 1862 - 322 pages
...approach the coast ; and as far as seven leagues off-shore is intermixed with shells. This bottom is fuund only in, and to the northward of, the latitude of Cape St. Mary, unless very close in with it. _ To the southward of 34° 40' S. the bottom is chiefly mud, intermixed... | |
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S. the bottom is chiefly mud, intermixed with fine sand or gravel ; and if a ship happen to be set to the southward of Cape St. Mary, as she hauls in for the land, yet keeps to the northward of Lobos, she will get out of fine sand into dark... 