 | Great Britain. Admiralty - 1871 - 424 pages
...takes place at a different time from high water, except at the head of a bay or creek. The stream of flood commonly runs for some time, often for hours,...water is not necessarily different at these points. Thus the time of slack water is not wanted for a theory of tides, though its knowledge is in other... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel, Robert Main - Scientific expeditions - 1871 - 420 pages
...takes place at a different time from high water, except at the head of a bay or creek. The stream of flood commonly runs for some time, often for hours,...water is not necessarily different at these points. Thus the time of slack water is not wanted for a theory of tides, though its knowledge is in other... | |
 | Sir Frederick George Denham Bedford - Naval art and science - 1875 - 532 pages
...takes place at a different time from high water, except at the head of a bay or creek. Tl1e stream of flood commonly runs for some time, often for hours,...stream of ebb runs for some time after low water. Tide and Half Tide. — The sailor should, therefore, be careful not to confuse himself by the words... | |
 | sir Frederick George D. Bedford - 1877 - 592 pages
...ebb as it ia called) makes to the eastward 2 hours before it is high water at Duukerque, Osteud, &c. The time at which the stream turns is often different...necessarily different at these points. The time of slack wah-r is not wanted for a theory of tides, though ita knowledge is otherwise of considerable importance... | |
 | Squire Thornton Stratford Lecky - Marine sciences - 1881 - 682 pages
...tide "; and " Tide and quarter tide " when it only Tide and Half runs for 1£ hours longer. Moreover, the time at which the stream. *" turns is often different...water is not necessarily different at these points. This same peculiarity may be observed in a small way in the Mersey and other rivers, whcra, though... | |
 | Howard Patterson - Navigation - 1885 - 188 pages
...a different time from high water, except at the head of a bay or river. The stream of flood usually runs for some time, often for hours, after the time...stream of ebb runs for some time after low water. The most violent tidal currents which occur in navigable channels on our coast are those of Hell Gate,... | |
 | International Correspondence Schools - Marine meteorology - 1902 - 600 pages
...except at the head of a bay or creek. The stream of flood runs for some time, often for hours, after high water. In the same way, the stream of ebb runs for some time after low water. 99. Tide and Half Tide. — The student should be careful not to confuse himself by the words "flood"... | |
 | International Correspondence Schools - 1908 - 626 pages
...except at the head of a bay or creek. The stream of flood runs for some time, often for hours, after high water. In the same way, the stream of ebb runs for some time after low water. Again, a stream, or current, due to tides may, in certain localities, flow in the offing for a long... | |
 | Agriculture - 1909 - 532 pages
...except at the head of a bay or creek. The stream of flood runs for some time, often for hours, after high water. In the same way, the stream of ebb runs for some time after low water. Again, a stream, or current, due to tides may, in certain localities, flow in the offing for a long... | |
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Mistakes and errors have often been produced in tide observations by supposing that the turn of the tide-stream is the time of high water. But this is not so. The turn of the stream generally takes place at a different time from high water, except at... 