 | Heinrich Wilhelm Dove - 1862 - عدد الصفحات: 374
...which is an opening between the clouds. The ' bull's-eye ' is the cloud referred to by Sir JFW Herechel (Encyc. Brit., article ' Meteorology '), F. Franklin...Washington „ 38 55 „ „ 5 „ New York „ 40 40 „ „ 10 „ Albany „ 44 0 „ 22 Daybreak. In the year 1811 At Cape Hatteras, Lat. 34° 15' on... | |
 | Heinrich Wilhelm Dove - 1866 - عدد الصفحات: 424
...auf einer 1747 herausgegebenen Karte von Pennsylvanien: „all our great storms begin to leewards, thus a NE storm shall be a day sooner in Virginia than in Boston." Mitchil fand im Jahre 1802, dafs ein Nordoststurm eintrat: in Charleston 34° 45' Br. 21. Februar 2... | |
 | Josiah Dwight Whitney - 1889 - عدد الصفحات: 496
...the name and orographic character of the Appalachian Mountains. On this map he remarks as follows : " All our great storms begin to Leeward : thus a NE storm shall be a Day sooner in Virginia than Boston." In various papers in which the leading points of his theory of storms were published, between... | |
 | Maryland. Weather Service - 1899 - عدد الصفحات: 734
...Parliament. The text on the face of the map contains the statement attributed to Benj. Franklin: " All our great storms begin to Leeward: thus a NE storm shall be a day sooner in Virginia than Boston . .-. ." FASSIG, OLIVER L. The heavy rainfall at Jewell, Anne Arundel County, July 26 and 27,... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - 1906 - عدد الصفحات: 466
...and here we find, among various items, a significant statement regarding the movement of storms : " All our great storms begin to leeward ; thus a NE...shall be a day sooner in Virginia than in Boston." This brief statement has been taken to be the first recognition, as it surely seems to be the first... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - 1906 - عدد الصفحات: 470
...and here we find, among various items, a significant statement regarding the movement of storms : " All our great storms begin to leeward ; thus a NE...shall be a day sooner in Virginia than in Boston." This brief statement has been taken to be the first recognition, as it surely seems to be the first... | |
 | Library of Congress. Map Division, Philip Lee Phillips - 1901 - عدد الصفحات: 1170
...counties: by Lewis Evans. 1749. L. Herbert sculp. 25 x 19. Philadelphia, L. Evans, 1749. NOTE. — " AH our great storms begin to leeward: thus a ne storm shall be a day sooner in Virginia than Boston." The above is considered to be the first statement in literature of the fact that our storms... | |
 | Mark Monmonier - 2000 - عدد الصفحات: 352
...the British "middle colonies," included a map that contained several short notes, one of which read "All our great storms begin to leeward: thus a NE...shall be a day sooner in Virginia than in Boston" — an observation that geographer William Morris Davis attributed to Franklin. See William Morris... | |
 | Mark Monmonier - 1999 - عدد الصفحات: 354
...the British "middle colonies." included a map that contained several short notes, one of which read "All our great storms begin to leeward: thus a NE storm shall be a day sooner in Virginia than in Boston"—an observation that geographer William Morris Davis attributed to Franklin. See William Morris... | |
 | عدد الصفحات: 500
...and here we find, among various items, a significant statement regarding the movement of storms : " All our great storms begin to leeward ; thus a NE...shall be a day sooner in Virginia than in Boston." This brief statement has been taken to be the first recognition, as it surely seems to be the first... | |
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... generalization on the part of the author, who must be ranked as an early leader among American geographers. The map contains a number of explanatory legends, inserted where topographical details were wanting ; and here we find, among various items,... 