Man on the Ocean: A Book for BoysT. Nelson, 1863 - 408 pages |
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... iron , we can imagine that they soon bethought them of flattening the surface of their rafts , and then finding them unwieldy and difficult to manage , no doubt , they hit upon the idea of hollowing out the logs . Adzes were probably ...
... iron , we can imagine that they soon bethought them of flattening the surface of their rafts , and then finding them unwieldy and difficult to manage , no doubt , they hit upon the idea of hollowing out the logs . Adzes were probably ...
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... iron invented saws ; logs were ripped up ; planks were formed ; pitch oozed ready to hand from the trees ; with grass , perchance , they caulked the seams ; - and soon the first boat floated on the water , ―clumsy and tub- like , no ...
... iron invented saws ; logs were ripped up ; planks were formed ; pitch oozed ready to hand from the trees ; with grass , perchance , they caulked the seams ; - and soon the first boat floated on the water , ―clumsy and tub- like , no ...
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... of small stones or sand ; but these were not long of being superseded by iron anchors with teeth or flukes . The Romans were not at first so strong in naval power as their neighbours , but in order to keep pace 5 ANCIENT SHIPS . 65.
... of small stones or sand ; but these were not long of being superseded by iron anchors with teeth or flukes . The Romans were not at first so strong in naval power as their neighbours , but in order to keep pace 5 ANCIENT SHIPS . 65.
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... iron should have this tendency - this polarity - is one of the mys- teries which man has not yet been able to penetrate , and probably never will . Having explained the nature of the compass , as far as explanation is possible , we ...
... iron should have this tendency - this polarity - is one of the mys- teries which man has not yet been able to penetrate , and probably never will . Having explained the nature of the compass , as far as explanation is possible , we ...
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... iron , and also of imparting to iron its own attractive power , was known to the Chinese before the year 121 , in which year a famous Chinese dictionary was com- pleted , wherein the word magnet is defined as " the name of a stone which ...
... iron , and also of imparting to iron its own attractive power , was known to the Chinese before the year 121 , in which year a famous Chinese dictionary was com- pleted , wherein the word magnet is defined as " the name of a stone which ...
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anchor Atlantic barque began billows Bligh boat Bounty bowsprit brig broken built cabin cable called canoes Captain Cook carried CHAPTER coast Columbus commander compass course crew danger dashed deck deep Eastern engines Esquimaux fastened fear feet fire fleet Fletcher Christian floating fore-mast gale Grace Darling Gulf Stream guns gunwale harbour harpoon hour hundred inches iron island John Adams keel land launched Lieutenant life-boat Longstone mariners masts midshipman miles minutes mutineers named natives navigation night oars ocean paddle passed passengers peculiar pieces PITCAIRN ISLAND planks port Pytheas raft rigging river rocks rope round Royal Royal Charter rushed sail sailors savages scarcely schooner seemed seen ship ship's shore side sloop soon South Sea steam steamer stern storm tide tons top-mast vessel voyage walrus watch waterspouts waves weather whale wind wreck yards
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Page 124 - Behold also the ships, which, though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth.
Page 40 - There is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts it never fails, and in the mightiest floods it never overflows. Its banks and its bottoms are of cold water, while its current is of warm. The Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its mouth is in the Arctic Seas. It is the Gulf Stream. There is in the world no other such majestic flow of waters. Its current is more rapid than the Mississippi or the Amazon, and its volume more than a thousand times greater.
Page 17 - And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark : and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged...
Page 59 - O well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay! And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill; But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand, And the sound of a voice that is still! Break, break, break, At the foot of thy crags, O Sea! But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to me.
Page 56 - There with its waving blade of green, The sea-flag streams through the silent water, And the crimson leaf of the dulse is seen To blush like a banner bathed in slaughter; There with a light and easy motion The fan-coral sweeps through the clear deep sea, And the yellow and scarlet tufts of ocean Are bending like corn on the upland lea...
Page 45 - The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits. All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
Page 59 - They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters ; These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.
Page 303 - Notwithstanding the wind and tide, which were adverse to its approach, they saw with astonishment that it was rapidly coming towards them ; and when it came so near that the noise of the machinery and paddles was heard, the crews — if what was said in the newspapers of the time be true — in some instances shrunk beneath their decks from the...
Page 261 - May, when we bore away under a reefed lug foresail; and having divided the people into watches, and got the boat into a little order, we returned thanks to God for our miraculous preservation ; and, in full confidence of his gracious support, I found my mind more at ease than it had been for some time past.
Page 208 - ... danger, till an accident happened which gave a fatal turn to the affair. The boats, which had been stationed across the bay, having fired at some canoes that were attempting to get out, unfortunately had killed a chief of the first rank. The news of his death arrived at the village where Captain Cook was, just as he had left the king and was walking slowly toward the shore.