What little wind there was carried to us the murmurs of the waves circulating round these coasts so far over a flat country.
Thackeray went off in a steamboat about the time the French were before Mogadore; he was to see thosecoasts and to visit Jerusalem!
The pirate raids from which the coastssuffered were of varied nationality--Saracen and Turk, Uscoc and bands of native pirates.
The pirates in the Adriatic were first the Narentans and next the Saracens, who devastated the coasts of Dalmatia in 840, fruitlessly besieging Ragusa for fifteen months, and afterwards taking Taranto and Bari.
The close relations between the two coastsat the period when they were governed from one centre, either Eastern or Western, make these influences probable.
The original Ostracion of Linnaeus we may interpret as being Ostracion cubicus of the coasts of Asia, a species similar to the Ostracion rhinorhynchus.
In like fashion, young fishes from the tropics drift northward in the Kuro Shiwo to the coasts of Japan, but never finding a permanent breeding-place and never joining the ranks of the Japanese fishes.
There is a continuous inland passage in fresh or brackish waters, traversable by such fishes, from Chesapeake Bay nearly to Cape Fear; and similar conditions exist on the coasts of Louisiana, Texas, and much of Florida.
Most of the species belong to the typical genus Raja, and these are especially numerous on the coasts of all northern regions, where they are largely used as food.
One of the most notable of these is the family of viviparous surf-fishes (Embiotocidae), of which numerous species abound on the coasts of California and Japan, but which enter neither the waters of the frigid nor of the torrid zone.
They live buried in sand in shallow waters along the coasts of warm seas.
It is rather scarce on the coasts of Europe, and was once taken on Cape Cod.
Some of the species, known on our coasts as "barn-door skates," reach a length of four or five feet.
These small, harmless sharks abound on almost all coastsin warm regions, and are largely used as food by those who do not object to the harsh odor of shark's flesh.
Equally effective is the "muchacho" on the coasts of Mexico.
Most of them disappear to the southward, along the coasts of Brazil and Peru.
In the renewed efforts of Great Britain to discover the northwest passage and outline the continental coasts of North America, it was deemed important to supplement the efforts being made by Parry at sea with a land expedition.
The praiseworthy conduct of Franklin and of his companions in prosecuting the work of outlining the arctic coasts of North America is not to be measured alone by the fortitude and courage shown in crossing the barren grounds.
Strange as it may now seem, a century since the entire northern coasts of North America were wholly unknown, save at two isolated and widely separated points--the mouth of the Coppermine and the delta of the Mackenzie.
Of all the nations of the earth, we are the people to land upon the coasts of England and Ireland.
He would only say, at present, that coasts and cities could be defended without great fleets at sea.
A fleet for home purposes, to cruise continually along her coasts, and to watch the neighboring coasts of her often enemies, was, then, a necessity of her insular position.
Wherever the trade exists, the combined powers must follow it: for good is not to be done by halves, and philanthropy is not to be circumscribed by coasts and latitudes.
She limited herself to the coasts and islands where she had settlements, and left Great Britain and the United States to share the continent between themselves.
The enemy, relieved from the pressure of our arms on his coasts and in the populous parts of the interior, would direct his attention to this line, and selecting an isolated post for attack, would concentrate his forces upon it.
A few of the frontier-districts and maritime coasts were indeed possessed by some of the more ancient Egyptian Pharaohs; but the entire country was never subdued or conquered either by the Assyrians, the Persians, or the Macedonian conquerors.
Moriscoes, terminated under Philip the Third, with the barbarous expulsion of the whole Moorish population to the coasts of Africa.
I now appreciate Ruskin's advice to oil-painters to go and study thecoasts of Devon and Cornwall, instead of lingering about the muddy seas and tame cliffs of the Channel and the German Ocean.
In 1441 exploration began again in earnest with the venture of Antam Goncalvez, who brought to Portugal the first slaves and gold-dust from the Guinea coasts beyond Bojador; while Nuno Tristam in the same year pushed on to Cape Blanco.
HENNA, the Persian name for a small shrub found in India, Persia, the Levant and along the African coasts of the Mediterranean, where it is frequently cultivated.
The sea coasts are however both pleasant and fertile, the low lands being cloathed in perpetual verdure, and the hills covered with a variety of trees, mostly bearing fruit.
Straits of Magellan or Le Maire, and thence northwards again along the western coast, to the supposed Straits of Anian, thus including the entire coasts of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
It is also remarked, that hurricanes rarely happen in the middle of the wide ocean, but chiefly on the coasts of such countries as abound with minerals, and off the mouths of large rivers.
Mr Kuster sent an immediate account of their arrival to the commandant of the coasts of Java, who instantly forwarded it to Mr Swaardekroon, at that time governor-general of the East Indies.
He also refers to the reports of the officers appointed to examine the Pacific Coasts of the United States, in order to select suitable sites for fortifications and naval depots there.
The Sea-Coasts round about the Island were formerly under their Power and Government, and so held for many years.
These Malabars then are voluntary Inhabitants in this Island, and have a Countrey here; tho the Limits of it are but small: it lyes to the Northward of the King's Coasts betwixt him and the Hollander.
Money is not very plentiful in this Land, but by means of these Nuts, which is a great Commodity to carry to the Coasts of Cormandel, they furnish themselves with all things they want.
It is the chief City on the Sea-coasts where the chief Governour hath his residence.
The next victim of universal sea-power may not be on the ravaged fields of mid-Europe, but mid the wasted coasts and bombarded seaports of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
Carthage got her soldiers from Spain, her seamen, her slingers from the Balearic Islands and the coastsof Africa, her money from the trade of the world.
Thus the Pleuronectes flesus is the common flounder of English terminology, found along the coasts of northern Europe from the Bristol Channel to Iceland.
The coasts have deep bays and extensive rounded gulfs, where are situated the principal villages (kampongs).
Tenders from Margate, Ramsgate, Deal and Dover watched the lower Thames estuary, swept the Downs, and kept a sharp lookout along the coasts of Kent and Sussex, of Essex and of Norfolk.
On the Scottish coasts fishermen and ferrymen--the latter a numerous class on that deeply indented seaboard--offered up one man in every five or six on the altar of protection.
On the coasts of Scotland commanders of warships whose carpenters had run or broken their leave, and who perhaps were left, like Capt.
From the smuggling vessels infesting the coasts the sea-going gangs drew sure returns and rich booty.
All alike were subject to the attacks of the Norse sea-rovers, hardy pirates who not only scourged all the coasts of Europe but penetrated, burning and harrying, far inland up the great waterways.
The conditions referred to provide, among other things, that the commission shall henceforth only comprise representatives of States situated on the Danube or the European coasts of the Black Sea.
Under Queen Elizabeth, as at present, she strove for possession of East Prussia to extend her Baltic coasts and to insure her domination of the Baltic.
And from that time forth we hear of their long ships again and again, hovering hawk-like around the coasts of Ireland and Scotland.
They are generally in good preservation, and some of the species appear almost identical with those found upon the coasts of Brazil; others, on the contrary, found with them are not known.
Amongst the most interesting perhaps of these I may mention-- The original Diaries of Don Juan de la Piedra, sent out from Spain, in 1778, to explore the coasts of Patagonia.
East and West had united their strength in a great expedition to put down the incessant Vandal piracies, which made all the coasts of the Mediterranean insecure.
It continued with changing fortune in the provinces of Tuscany, Æmilia, the plain of the Po, the coasts of the Hadriatic.
All this indicates a more preponderating, and an earlier infusion of Norse along the coast of Scotland, than that which took place under the Danes upon the coasts of England, in the days of Alfred and under the reign of Canute.
And all the coasts thereof from the Arnon to the Jaboc, and from the wilderness to the Jordan.
And saying these things, they cast away out of their coasts all the idols of strange gods, and served the Lord their God: and he was touched with their miseries.
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