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Omphalos: An Attempt to Untie the Geological Knot

Omphalos: An Attempt to Untie the Geological Knot

Gosse, Philip Henry

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Classic Fiction

ISBN10: 1515299562
ISBN13: 9781515299561
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jul 30 2015
Pages: 142
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
You have not allowed for the wind, Hubert, said Locksley, in Ivanhoe; or that had been a better shot. I remember, when I was in Newfoundland, some five-and-twenty years ago, the disastrous wreck of the brig Elizabeth, which belonged to the firm in which I was a clerk. The master had made a good observation the day before, which had determined his latitude some miles north of Cape St. Francis. A thick fog coming on, he sailed boldly by compass, knowing that, according to his latitude, he could well weather that promontory. But lo! about midnight the ship plunged right against the cliffs of Ferryland, thirty miles to the south, crushing in her bows to the windlass; and presently went down, the crew barely saving their lives. The captain had not allowed for the polar current, which was setting, like a sluice, to the southward, between the Grand Bank and the land.

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