 | 1869 - 796 pagine
...points. The shocks were felt as far as the shores of Lakes Michigan and St. Clair on the north, to the Atlantic on the east, and the Gulf of Mexico on the south ; but it was only the first movement and possibly one or two of the heavier shocks which occurred... | |
 | George Rainsford Fairbanks - 1858 - 220 pagine
...and equable, at the same time that it is not enfeebling. The summer heats are prevented from beicg intense by the seabreeze, of which I have spoken....I do not wonder, therefore, that it is so much the rdfeort of invalids ; it would be more so if the softness of its atmosphere, and the beauty and serenity... | |
 | Frederick Trench Townshend - 1869 - 322 pagine
...is now estimated at three hundred thousand. It is already connected by railroads and by water with the Atlantic on the east and the Gulf of Mexico on the south. On the completion of the Union and Central Pacific Eailways, which are now nearly finished,... | |
 | Max Bloomfield - 1883 - 120 pagine
...being intense by the seabreeze, of which I have spoken. " I have looked over the work of JDr. Forty on the climate of the United States, and have been...the west, temper the airs that blow over it, making their. cooler in summer and warmer in winter. I do not wonder, therefore, that it is so much the resort... | |
 | James Aspdin - 1885 - 84 pagine
...the north by the well known States of Georgia and Alabama, and is a peninsula stretching down between the Atlantic on the east and the Gulf of Mexico on the west. SOIL. — It is possible that the emigrant who for the first time views the soils of Florida and California,... | |
 | 1892 - 450 pagine
...of water, where great differences in temperature are found in comparatively short distances."1 With the Atlantic on the east and the Gulf of Mexico on the south and west the temperature of Florida, and especially that 1 American Weattier, by Gen. AW Greely.... | |
 | Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.) - 1917 - 978 pagine
...crooked, and very picturesque stream, ing from the lake southward to the Gulf ; not bounded, however, by the Atlantic on the east and the Gulf of Mexico on the west, for there is on each side an inconsiderable uplift or ridge, and the Everglades fill the trough between... | |
 | Timothy O'Keefe, M. Timothy O'Keefe, Larry Larsen - 1992 - 196 pagine
...clumps too small to be included. Only about 30 are inhabited. They extend for 120 miles, bounded by the Atlantic on the east and the Gulf of Mexico on the west, to form the southernmost point in the continental US The Keys are actually emergent reminders of the... | |
 | Len Cacutt - 2000 - 178 pagine
...big-game angling first developed into a skill and an art. Florida's 719km-long (447-mile) peninsula, with the Atlantic on the east and the Gulf of Mexico on the west, is an angler's paradise. Australian author and billfishing expert Peter Goadby says that Florida 'leads... | |
 | Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.) - 1917 - 1092 pagine
...crooked, and very picturesque stream, ing from the lake southward to the Gulf ; not bounded, however, by the Atlantic on the east and the Gulf of Mexico on the west, for there is on each side an inconsiderable uplift or ridge, and the Everglades fill the trough between... | |
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... higher latitudes of the American continent. The climate of Florida is, in fact, an insular climate: the Atlantic on the east, and the Gulf of Mexico on the west, temper the airs that blow over it, making them cooler in summer and warmer in winter.... 