 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1844 - 574 ページ
...The rotation of the air in the body of the storm is, on the north side of the equator, from the right to the left, or contrary to the movement of the hands of a watch ; and, in southern latitudes, from the left to the right, or with the hands of a watch. Its violence... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 370 ページ
...travelled at double this speed. In these whirlwinds, the rotatory movement is always from right to left, or contrary to the movement of the hands of a watch ; in the storms of the southern hemisphere, the reverse is the case. Knowing, therefore, the direction... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1852 - 372 ページ
...travelled at double this speed. In these whirlwinds, the rotatory movement is always from right to left, or contrary to the movement of the hands of a watch ; in the storms of the southern hemisphere, the reverse is the case. Knowing, therefore, the direction... | |
 | 1864 - 428 ページ
...other parts of the southern hemisphere, is that the rotation of the winds takes place from right to left, or contrary to the movement of the hands of a watch. Therefore the wind veers from North toN.W., to SW, to SE, &c., &c., whilst in the northern hemisphere... | |
 | Charles Philippe de Kerhallet - 1870 - 310 ページ
...starboard tack, barometer falling: "1. If the wind hanl by the compass to the right, or in the direction of the movement of the hands of a watch, the ship is to the right of the path of the center, in the dangerous semicircle, and should run close-hanled on the starboard... | |
 | United States hydrographic office - 1872 - 26 ページ
...tack, barometer falling : " 1. If the wind hauls by the compass to the right, or in the direction of the movement of the hands of a watch, the ship is to the right of the path of the center, in the dangerous semicircle, and should run close-hauled on the starboard... | |
 | 1888 - 618 ページ
...kind of motion is determinate. Storms rotate, in the northern hemisphere, invariably from right to left, or contrary to the movement of the hands of a watch ; in the southern, with equal uniformity, from left to right. The tracks they pursue are laid down... | |
 | John P. Finley - 1888 - 114 ページ
...quadrant to some point in the northeast quadrant. 2. The whirling or gyratory motion, always from right to left, or contrary to the movement of the hands of a watch with the face upward. 3. The curvi-linear motion. Frequently the cloud rises from the earth, breaking... | |
 | 1893 - 666 ページ
...parts of the southern hemisphere, is that the ordinary change in the wind takes place from right to left, or contrary to the movement of the hands of a watch. Therefore the wind generally backs from north to north-west, to south-west, to southeast, &c., &c.,... | |
 | 1885 - 566 ページ
...parts of the southern hemisphere, is that the ordinary change in the wind takes place from right to left, or contrary to the movement of the hands of a watch. Therefore the wind generally backs from north to north-west, to south-west, to south-east, &c., &c.,... | |
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... becoming a violent snow-storm on the White Mountains. It performed a journey of 2200 miles in about six days, at the average rate of about fifteen miles and a half per hour. More violent hurricanes have travelled at double this speed. In these whirlwinds,... 