. Sea and sail; or, Marvelous adventures on the ocean. Being interesting, instructive and graphic accounts of the most popular voyages on record, remarkable shipwrecks, hair-breadth escapes, naval adventures, the whale fishery, etc., etc. ... halcis in the Euripus, near the coast ofSmreee, which alternately absorbs and rejects the water seventimes every twenty-four hours. Charybdis, near the Strait ofSicily, rejects and absorbs the water thrice in twenty-four largest known whirlpool is the Maelslrom in the Norwegiansea, the circumference of which exceeds 20 leagues. CLASSIFICATION OF
. Sea and sail; or, Marvelous adventures on the ocean. Being interesting, instructive and graphic accounts of the most popular voyages on record, remarkable shipwrecks, hair-breadth escapes, naval adventures, the whale fishery, etc., etc. ... halcis in the Euripus, near the coast ofSmreee, which alternately absorbs and rejects the water seventimes every twenty-four hours. Charybdis, near the Strait ofSicily, rejects and absorbs the water thrice in twenty-four largest known whirlpool is the Maelslrom in the Norwegiansea, the circumference of which exceeds 20 leagues. CLASSIFICATION OF CLOUDS. The clouds are aqueous vapors, which hover at a considerableheight above the surface of the earth. They ditJer from fogs onlyLy their height and less degree of transparency. The distauceof the clouds from the surface of the earth is very different. Thinand light clouds are higher than the highest mountains; thickand heavy clouds on the contrary, touch low mountains, steeples,and even trees. The average height of the clouds is calculatedto be two miles and a half Innumerable as the forms of cloudi CLASSIFICATION OF CLOUDS. 48i may appear to be, correct observers have stated that they maybe all comprised in seven These following modifications are arranged in the order oftbe> ordinary elevation, but which is very frequently derangedWe give the names both in Latin and English; the former areperhaps most generally used. The figures refer to the aboveengraving. Fig. 1, Cirrus ... . Curl-Cloud. 2, Cjrrocuimulus . Sonder-Cloud. 41 Vn OF CLOUBS. Fig. 3, 4, 5, (), 7, CiiuiosTRATUs . . Wane-Cloud 9, CuMULOsTRATUs . . Twain-Cloud 9, Cumulus ... Slacken-Cloud 11. Nimbus Rain-Cloud 11, Stratus ... Fall-Cloud Fig. I The curling and flexuous formg of this cloud most obvious external character, and from these it derives itaname. It may be distinguished from all others by the ightnessof its appearance, its fibrous texture, and the great
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