 | 1858 - 394 Seiten
...conclusion that these so-called vast whirlwinds gyrate in the Northern Hemisphere from right to left, or in a direction contrary to the movement of the hands of a watch, while in the Southern Hemisphere may move from left to right. spirally inwards, and ascends in the... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 370 Seiten
...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 in which... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1852 - 372 Seiten
...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 in which... | |
 | 1858 - 388 Seiten
...conclusion that these so-called vast whirlwinds gyrate in the Northern Hemisphere from right to left, or in a direction contrary to the movement of the hands of a watch, while in the Southern Hemisphere may move from left to right. In the meantime we may here point out... | |
 | David M. Warren - 1863 - 116 Seiten
...hour. In the Northern Hemisphere, the direction of the whirlwind is from right to left, or opposite to the movement of the hands of a watch. In the Southern Hemisphere, the direction of the wind is from left to right, or with the movement of the hands of a watch. The storm... | |
 | George William Blunt - 1866 - 46 Seiten
...opposite directions — in N. latitudes against the course of the sun, that is to say, from right to left, or in a direction contrary to the movement of the hands of a watch, and in S. latitude from left to right ; and secondly, it is known that, no matter how great or how... | |
 | Edmund March Blunt - 1867 - 994 Seiten
...opposite directions — in N. latitudes against the course of the sun, that is to say, from right to left, or in a direction contrary to the movement of the hands of a watch, and in S. latitude from left to right: and secondly, it is known that, no matter how great or how little... | |
 | David M. Warren, Adolph Steinwehr - 1869 - 128 Seiten
...in these storms is always the same. In the Northern Hemisphere it is from right to left, or opposite to the movement of the hands of a watch. In the Southern Hemisphere it is from left to right, or with the movement of the hands of a watch. The storm is most furious,... | |
 | Charles Philippe de Kerhallet - 1870 - 310 Seiten
...hove-to on the port tack, the barometer falling : "1. If the wind hanls by the compass to the left, in a direction contrary to the movement of the hands of a watch, the ship is to the left of the path of the centre, in the dangerous semicircle ; she should run close-hanled... | |
 | United States hydrographic office - 1872 - 26 Seiten
...hove-to on the port tack, the barometer falling : "Д. If the wind hauls by the compass to the left, in a direction contrary to the movement of the hands of a watch, the ship is to the left of the path of the center, in the dangerous semicircle ; she should run close-hauled... | |
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N. latitudes against the course of the sun, that is to say, from right to left, or in a direction contrary to the movement of the hands of a watch, and in S. 
