This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1745 Excerpt: ... to stop the Progress of the Ruffian Arms: For though their present Empress is in strict Alliance with us j yet I dread the consequences of their future Power. We did not touch again at El/inore, but continued our Voyage without stopping, till we cast Anchor in Yarmouth Road. 18. N. B. The Straits between Schonen and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1745 Excerpt: ... to stop the Progress of the Ruffian Arms: For though their present Empress is in strict Alliance with us j yet I dread the consequences of their future Power. We did not touch again at El/inore, but continued our Voyage without stopping, till we cast Anchor in Yarmouth Road. 18. N. B. The Straits between Schonen and Denmark are froze over every Winter, and a great singularity of the Baltick Sea, as well as of the Mediteranean, is, That there is very little if any Tide at all in it: And as the Water is not disturbed and muddied thereby, so you may distinctly fee a Stone which is no bigger than my Head lay at the bottom, in six or seven fathom of Water. Give me leave to add, That there is the self fame transparency in the Sea, between Nevis and the Salt-pond Hills in Saint Christopher % where the Tides are scarce perceptible; and farther still, that it is matter of wonder to me, that the Adriatick Sea mould have very regular Tides, when the Mediteranean has none, according to the common opinion, which opinion I think justly question-able.. Good Good Sir, 19. As I was very young in 1700, so the whole Voyage made such a strong impression upon my Mind, as time never can erase; and I very well remember too, that after I was at Oxford, I used (as often as I had opportunity) with the highest gratification to myself, to talk over the affair with my Father, Captain Kirkman and others, who were at Narva both then and since. It was my custom always to keep Books of Remarks; the two first Volumes whereof containing, Gibson's Notes upon Drummond's Poem, entituled, PolemoMiddinia, Mr. Andrew Bruce's upon the fame, which were never printed; my own Tract upon Government, that was chiefly levelled at Machiavel, Hobbs, and Milton, &c. &c. I burnt many years ago; and ...
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