The South American Pilot: The east coast of South America from Cape St. Roque to Cape San Antonio, Rio de la Plata ; and the north coast from Cape St. Roque to the Rio Maroni in French Guyana. Part Iorder of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralry, 1864 |
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The South American Pilot: The east coast of South America from Cape ..., Parte 1 Visualizzazione completa - 1885 |
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Pagina 35 - It is placed at an elevation of 100 feet above the mean level of the s«a, and should be seen in clear weather from a distance of 15 miles. The illuminating apparatus is dioptric, or by lenses of the second order. The tower is 85 feet high, of red brick color, and said to stand in latitude 9° 30' north, longitude 76° 20
Pagina 8 - ... the loss of many vessels in the English Channel. It becomes wider as it proceeds northward ; in the latitude of Brest it is eighty miles across, and its direction nearly NW It issues from the Bay of Biscay, passes West of Ushant at fifteen or twenty miles from that island, crosses the entrance of the channel, and takes a westerly direction from the Scilly Isles. At the entrance of the Irish Sea it discharges a second branch into that sea, the principal branch flowing WNW and West, towards Cape...
Pagina 145 - On the highest part of Punta del Este (East point), at a quarter of a mile from its extremity, is a...
Pagina 212 - Gurguea, having taken its rise in the sierra of the same name, and formed in the early part of its course the lake Pernagoa, is incorporated with it. At 108 miles lower down, it receives the Caninde, which flows from the Sierra dos Irmaos to the south-east, and at 18 miles farther the Poty falls into it. After 132 miles of its course, the rio Longa...
Pagina 207 - Sailing out of this port is more dangerous than coming in, as the wind is only favourable for passing the bar during three hours in the morning, and even then it cannot be depended upon. Should it fail, or head in the least, the vessel would be in imminent danger, as a heavy sea is always running on the bur, and the channel is so narrow, that anchoring would be useless.
Pagina 164 - ... river have various names ; but at the confluence of the rio Grande, the longest of them, with the Paranahiba, it takes the name of Parana, which it retains till it merges itself into the Rio de la Plata. The Parana flows southward, receiving several large affluents, and separates Paraguay from Brazil and La Plata. It then turns to the west, and flows in that direction for 50 miles, still forming the boundary between Paraguay and La Plata. It receives the Paraguay from the north, and at 13 miles...
Pagina 10 - Caboclo. and is besides extremely unhealthy. - Although lying so near the equator (1° 28' S. lat.) the climate is not excessively hot. The temperature during three years only once reached 95° of Fahrenheit. The greatest heat of the day, about 2 pm, ranges generally between 89° and 94°; but on the other hand, the air is never cooler than 73°, so that a uniformly high temperature exists, and the mean of the year is 81°. North American residents say that the heat is not so oppressive as it is...
Pagina 63 - ... white light, visible in clear weather from a distance of 20 miles. The light revolves every minute, showing a bright light for fifteen seconds, followed by an eclipse of forty-five seconds.
Pagina 8 - It should always be remembered that the state of the air foretells coming weather, rather than shows the weather that is present — an invaluable fact, too often overlooked, that the longer the time between the signs and the change foretold by them, the longer such altered weather will last ; and, on the contrary, the less the time between a warning and a change, the shorter will be the continuance of such foretold weather.
Pagina 162 - Brasil and Uruguay from La Plata, and falling into the Rio de la Plata, where its waters preserve their clearness for miles before they are lost in the muddy current of the Parana. Its whole length is nearly 900 miles, and it is navigable for vessels of about 12 feet draught as far as Salto 220 miles above Buenos Ayres, and for small steamers beyond it.