The Nautical Magazine: A Journal of Papers on Subjects Connected with Maritime Affairs, Volume 30Brown, Son and Ferguson, 1861 - Naval art and science |
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... leave their wives and families on shore to clean and dry the fish , whilst the men are out catching more . Small American and other schooners make a good thing of it by exchanging provisions for the green fish , and bartering for skins ...
... leave their wives and families on shore to clean and dry the fish , whilst the men are out catching more . Small American and other schooners make a good thing of it by exchanging provisions for the green fish , and bartering for skins ...
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... leaving me only on shore . I remained in my little wooden hut on this bleak desolate land in order that I might continue my observations until the last moment . As I was walking backward and forward during the night , waiting until ...
... leaving me only on shore . I remained in my little wooden hut on this bleak desolate land in order that I might continue my observations until the last moment . As I was walking backward and forward during the night , waiting until ...
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... leave these magnificent gardens for the southern town , we find nothing there but streets not paved and houses badly arranged , and generally without an upper story . The crowd of passengers is enormous , and to move among them most ...
... leave these magnificent gardens for the southern town , we find nothing there but streets not paved and houses badly arranged , and generally without an upper story . The crowd of passengers is enormous , and to move among them most ...
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... leave the docks and port in one tide , without the aid of steam . Its distance from the coast of Kent ( Dover ) ... leaves nothing to be desired . The harbour ac- commodation is ample for any number of steam - vessels from 1000 tons ...
... leave the docks and port in one tide , without the aid of steam . Its distance from the coast of Kent ( Dover ) ... leaves nothing to be desired . The harbour ac- commodation is ample for any number of steam - vessels from 1000 tons ...
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... leaving it is also fair for rounding Cape La Hogue . A pier of masonry , 600 feet long , shelters the port from westerly winds ; another , 130 feet long , par- tially protects it against those from N.E. The port suffers from the ...
... leaving it is also fair for rounding Cape La Hogue . A pier of masonry , 600 feet long , shelters the port from westerly winds ; another , 130 feet long , par- tially protects it against those from N.E. The port suffers from the ...
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Page 279 - Union ; and in every event the utmost care will be observed, consistently with the objects aforesaid, to avoid any devastation, any destruction of, or interference with property, or any disturbance of peaceful citizens in any part of the country...
Page 279 - Constitution and the laws, have thought fit to call forth, and hereby do call forth, the militia of the several States of the Union to the aggregate number of 75,000, in order to suppress said combinations and to cause the laws to be duly executed.
Page 279 - States have been for some time past and now are opposed, and the execution thereof obstructed, in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law: Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, in virtue of the power in me vested by the Constitution and the laws, have thought fit to call forth,...
Page 535 - I first entered this city the whole of the machinery was executed by hand. There were neither planing, slotting, nor shaping machines, and with the exception of very imperfect lathes tml a few drills, the preparatory operations of construction were effected entirely by the hands of the workmen. Now everything is done by machine tools, with a degree of accuracy which the unaided hand could never accomplish.
Page 64 - Americans may freely buy from Japanese and sell to them any articles that either may have for sale, without the intervention of any Japanese officers in such purchase or sale, or in making or receiving payment for the same ; and all classes of Japanese may purchase, sell, keep, or use any articles sold to them by the Americans.
Page 521 - But the real and legitimate goal of the sciences is the endowment of human life with new inventions and riches.
Page 657 - ... carries with it all the sods that have been chucked in, and scatters them, scalded , and half-digested, at your feet. So irritated has the poor thing's stomach become by the discipline it has undergone, that even long after all foreign matter has been thrown off it goes on retching and sputtering, until at last nature is exhausted, when, sobbing and sighing to itself, it sinks back into the bottom of its den.
Page 279 - Deeming that the present condition of public affairs presents an extraordinary occasion, I do hereby, in virtue of the power in me vested by the Constitution, convene both houses of Congress.
Page 279 - Whereas an insurrection against the government of the United States has broken out in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas...
Page 656 - As he has no basin to protect him from these liberties, you can approach to the very edge of the pipe, about five feet in diameter, and look down at the boiling water which is perpetually seething at the bottom. In a few minutes the dose of turf you have just administered begins to disagree with him ; he works himself up into an awful passion — tormented by the qualms of incipient sickness, he groans and hisses, and boils up, and spits at you with malicious vehemence, until at last, with a roar...