Excerpt from Chamber's Home Book or Pocket Miscellany, Vol. 6 We had hoped to reach Sierra Leone on Sunday morn ing, just a fortnight after leaving Cape Town, but were disappointed. The wind was contrary, and the increasing warmth of the atmosphere and the water (diminishing the condensing power of the engine) was also unfavorable to our progress. The air was filled with vapor, and showers fell occasionally. Towards nig the horizon was veiled with So thick a haze, that it w difficult to distinguish the line Of separation ...
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Excerpt from Chamber's Home Book or Pocket Miscellany, Vol. 6 We had hoped to reach Sierra Leone on Sunday morn ing, just a fortnight after leaving Cape Town, but were disappointed. The wind was contrary, and the increasing warmth of the atmosphere and the water (diminishing the condensing power of the engine) was also unfavorable to our progress. The air was filled with vapor, and showers fell occasionally. Towards nig the horizon was veiled with So thick a haze, that it w difficult to distinguish the line Of separation between Sky and sea. Soundings were taken in the afternoon, and bottom was found at twenty-five and eighteen fathoms. On this part of the coast, the water shoals very gradually, a depth Of only twenty fathoms being found at sixty miles from the land. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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