 | Andreas Andersen Feldborg - Denmark - 1824 - 474 pages
...but one ship can pass at a time. This entrance is every night shut up with a strong boom. The harbour is capacious enough to hold five hundred sail, where...good and safe, being fenced from the sea by a large sand bank, on the points of which float always a couple of buoys to direct all ships that come in or... | |
 | 1837 - 538 pages
...ships may be viewed near at hand, as easily and commodiously as if they lay on dry land. This harbour is capacious enough to hold five hundred sail, where...buoys to direct all ships that come in or go out. Here are no tides to fear; but always a sufficient depth of water: sometimes, indeed, according as... | |
 | Periodicals - 1837 - 260 pages
...ships may be viewed near at hand, e* easily and commodionsly as if they lay on dry land. This harbour is capacious enough to hold five hundred sail, where...couple of buoys to direct all ships that come in or go oi;t. Ilere are no tides to fear; but always a sufficient depth of water: sometimes, indeed, according... | |
 | Peter Parley (pseud.) - 1855 - 324 pages
...ships may be viewed near at hand as easily and commodiously as if they lay on dry land. The harbour is capacious enough to hold five hundred sail, where neither wind nor enemies can do them any mischief. The road without is very good and safe, being fenced from the sea by a large sand-bank.... | |
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... as if they lay on dry land. This harbour is capacious enough to hold five hundred sail, where neither wind nor enemies can do them the least mischief. The road without is very good and safe ; being fenced from the sea by a large sandbank, on the points... 