 | Books and bookselling - 1788 - 588 pages
...current?, every moveable thing is carried farther and farther along the (helving bottom of the fea, towaids the unfathomable regions of the ocean. If the vegetable foil is thus conibntly removed from the fmface of the land, and if its place is thus to be fupilied from the dirTolution... | |
 | English literature - 1797 - 618 pages
...Thefemovcable materials, delivered into the, fea, cannot, for a long continuance, reft upon the more ; for, by the agitation of the winds, the tides and...moveable thing is carried farther and farther along the flislving bottom of the fea, towards the unfathomable regions of the ocean. • If the vegetable foil... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Books - 1797 - 612 pages
...cannot, for a long continuance,, reft upon the fhore ; for, by the agitation of the winds, the tide* and currents, every moveable thing is carried farther and farther along the {helving bottom of the fea, towards the unfathomable regions of the ocean. ' If the vegetable foil... | |
 | Royal Society of Edinburgh - Science - 1788 - 678 pages
...Thefe moveable materials, delivered into the fea, cannot, for a long continuance, reft upon the fhore j for, by the agitation of the winds, the tides and...moveable thing is carried farther and farther along the {helving bottom, of the fea, towards the unfathomable regions of the ocean. IF the vegetable foil is... | |
| |
... mountains; and those travelling materials are still pursued by the moving water, and propelled along the inclined surface of the earth. These moveable materials, delivered into the sea, cannot, for a long continuance, rest upon the shore; for, by... 