 | Mollusks - 1837 - 168 pages
...impenetrable to the moon, and the stars, throws such a light upon the ship and rigging as to enable sailors to execute their allotted tasks with certainty,...appearance which it gives to the breakers, so as to ren" der them visible at a considerable distance." THE OPOSSUM SHRIMP, (Mysis chamceleon.) THIS small... | |
 | Light - Astronomy - 1838 - 298 pages
...the rigging, that the sailors may execute their allotted tasks with certainty, and at all times it points out to the cautious mariner the lurking danger of sunken rocks, shoals, and unknown coasts. How delightful is it to dwell on such proofs of the Divine care ! " Are not," said the gracious Redeemer,... | |
 | Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) - Astronomy - 1840 - 444 pages
...the rigging, that the sailors may execute their allotted tasks with certainty ; and at all times it points out to the cautious mariner the lurking danger of sunken rocks, shoals, and unknown coasts. How delightful is it to dwell on such proofs of the Divine care ! " Are not," said the gracious Redeemer,... | |
 | New York (N.Y.) - 1845 - 398 pages
...and rigging, that the sailors may execute their allotted tasks with certainty, and at all times it points out to the cautious mariner the lurking danger of sunken rocks, shoals and unknown coasts. It is well known that sea animals, larger than those minute creatures of which we have been speaking,... | |
 | Seashore biology - 1847 - 282 pages
...it greatly diminishes the dense gloom which at such times is often impenetrable to the moon and the stars, throws such a light upon the ship and rigging...to render them visible at a considerable distance." 134 CHAPTER VI. THE Saw-leaved Fucus, I observed to you, is of little use in the manufacture of kelp.... | |
 | Thomas Rymer Jones - Marine animals - 1858 - 588 pages
...dense gloom which at such times is often impenetrable to the moon or stars, throws such a light about the ship and rigging as to enable the sailors to execute...to the breakers, so as to render them visible at a con>iderable distance, or, where certain forms of it appear, lets him know that he is within soundings,... | |
 | David M. Damkaer - Science - 2002 - 328 pages
...honor. As to why indicator, Thompson wrote a very appealing argument— as good as any for his time: Meditating upon this subject, I think it not improbable,...distance; where again the diffused luminous appearance of the Sapphirina indicator is seen, he may be certain that he is in soundings, and probably at no... | |
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... stars, throws such a light upon the Ship and rigging as to enable the sailors to execute their allotted tasks with certainty, and at all times points out to the cautious mariner the lurking danger of sunken rocks, shoals, and unknown coasts, by the... 