This tree yields most water in those years when the Levant or easterly winds have prevailed for a continuance; for by these winds only, the clouds or mists are drawn hither from the sea.
This practice is thought to have been introduced into Greece from Phoenicia by Cadmus.
Thus we are told by Pliny, that in groves, ipsa silentia adoramus, the very silence of the place becomes the object of our adoration.
Three Miles from hence Easterly on the South shoare of Massachusits Bay is the Towne of Higham a handsome Towne supplying Boston also with wood, timber, leather and board, Some Masts are had there and store of provisions.
And hereabout the River trends away so much easterly that betweene that . Hudsons River it is not above 30 Miles.
The particular instance I have in mind was on Malaita, the most savage island in the easterly Solomons.
An easterly current instead of a westerly," said Captain "Davenport, glaring accusingly at McCoy, as if to cast the blame for it upon him.
McCoy was noncommittal, though he said that in the Paumotus there was no reason why it should not be an easterly current.
South of the shoal an easterly current had set them down upon it; north of the shoal an equally swift westerly current had clutched the ship and was sweeping her away.
We generally pick up aneasterly draught below three thousand at this time o' the year.
So we breakfast in the arms of an easterly slant which pushes us along at a languid twenty.
The noonday heat has now become noticeable, and seems greater on this easterly shoulder of the ridge.
Ontario is the last[136] and the most easterly of the chain of lakes.
Powder River, called Red Stone by Lewis and Clark, is the most easterly of the great southern affluents of the Yellowstone.
We glided rapidly down the Missouri, and soon passed the mouth of Teton River, which is about two miles and three quarters distant from Fort Pièrre in a south-easterly direction.
Along on the edge of Lincoln the highway continues; still in an easterly direction, for less than another half mile, this stretch being on rather higher ground, the northerly side of the road in Concord, the southerly side in Lincoln.
Down the easterly slope of Concord Hill they almost ran, in more or less confusion and intense excitement.
We have spoken of James Hayward of Acton, killed on the easterly side of Fiske Hill, and must add the name of Deacon Josiah Haynes of Capt.
Then the Americans returned the fire with better aim, and two Britons fell on the easterly side of the little stream, while several were wounded, among them Ensign Lester of the Tenth Regiment.
Down the road, now discontinued, in a southerly direction to the point of the triangle, then back towards the Bridge in an easterly direction, in all about a quarter of a mile, they marched.
The next house is the home of Timothy Tufts, on the easterly side of the road, nearly opposite Beech Street.
Then by the Hunnewell brothers on the easterly side at the turn of the road.
The building is still in existence, but has been moved easterly into Woburn Street across the railroad tracks.
His home was but a short distance down the road, and is still standing, next to the house on the easterly corner of Washington and Franklin Streets.
It stood easterly of the present (1911) Town Hall.
Along the summit the skirmishing was actively renewed, and continued down its easterly slope into Lincoln.
Down the easterly slope of Fiske Hill stands a modest little farmhouse, on the southerly side of the road.
Then comes an easterly bend in the road, though still continuing nearly level, and for about a quarter of a mile, to the Nelson house.
Consequently the two remoter companies were marched down from the hills and joined the third, and then all three marched to the easterly or nearer end of the bridge.
We had had very fine weather all the time, with a north or easterly wind, and I expected to find the ocean always as smooth and pleasant as it then was.
Had we been close in with the land, this would not have signified; but before we could beat up again, a continuance of northerly and easterly gales drove us to the southward of the Gut of Gibraltar.
The easterly winds we have had have sent a heavy sea rolling in here.
The pilot will carry her through the passage, and then steer an easterly course till you receive further orders.
The converging sections were considered aseasterly extensions of the station, and were not included in the East River Division.
Resident Engineer, embraced all tunnels from theeasterly end of the work near East Avenue in Long Island City to the meeting points under the river and also the permanent shafts in Long Island City.
Strong easterly winds blow daily from noon till midnight, and continue till the October or November rains set in.
Our path crossed the valley, in a north-easterly direction, up the course of a beautiful flowing stream.
Hans and his two companions took the moreeasterly course, the companions on this occasion being Bernhard and Victor.
He estimated that he had ridden about eight miles away from the spot on which he had first started the elephants, and in a nearly easterly direction.
Two parties were formed, one of which was to take the more easterly direction, and then to return by a southerly course; the other to take the more northerly, and return by a westerly and southerly course.
Some very likely-looking ground was seen from a hill, and which lay in the north-easterly direction.
Next morning we went over a steep spur of porphyry to reach a better place on the frozen river which was to afford us an easterlypassage up to Murgu.
Meanwhile a light south-easterly breeze disturbs again all the reflexions.
At the sixteenth point the depth has again decreased, the south-easterly breeze has ceased, and the lake is again a sheet of glass.
A fresh easterly breeze ruffled the surface of the lake, and the foam-tipped waves shone in the sun, but the day was beautiful and I was full of life, and eager to go out upon the lake.
If we went south-westwards we should come too near to Karma Puntso, and so we chose the south-easterly route.
The wild south-easterly waves were suppressed by it, and the undulations remained uncertain till the new wave system was established.
We passed sixteen tents, and near the last we crossed the Pedang-tsangpo, which runs to the Shovo-tso by a more easterly course.
The effect is the result of a certain temperature, a certain percentage of humidity, calm air, preceded by rain and a north-easterly storm.
The most easterly member of the system, originating N.
Near its summit are two large but shallow depressions, the more easterly having a very bright interior.
There are apparently five bright little mountains on the floor, the most easterly being rather the largest, and a great number of minute hillocks on the S.
The most easterly of a group of closely associated irregular walled-plains, of which Lindenau and Rabbi Levi are the other members, all evidently deformed and modified in shape by their proximity.
From the most easterly of these objects a light streak may be traced under a high sun, extending for many miles to another small crater on the N.
The two more easterly of the large ring-plains are connected by a cleft, and there are several short clefts and crater-rows associated with the smaller ring-plains.
The most easterly of the row of great ring-plains, which, beginning on the W.
Piccolomini in a north-easterly direction to the region between Tacitus and Catherina, a length of about 275 miles.
The north-easterly trend of the ridges and hillocks on the E.
Several days were lost in calms and easterly winds, and partly to catch the southerly breezes which might drive her N.
These are three small islands rising close to each other out of the bosom of the sea, the most north-easterly of which has been the most stripped.
He owns a magnificent farm, running pretty nigh into the heart of the city, golden with waving cereals and smiling flowers, and spreads out in an easterly direction.
The company, now numbering thirty-four, resumed their pilgrimage in an easterly direction for nearly two hundred miles.
Strong easterly gales seem by degrees to have accumulated the sand on this shallow run of the sea, which formerly separated Gibraltar from Spain.
For this reason, probably, we fell in with easterly breezes, so long as we had the Northern portion of Australia to the eastward of us.
Though the Line had been crossed at a more westerly point than usual, we were able, in the night from the 18th to the 19th of July, to pass easterly between the rocks Las Roccas and the island of Fernando da Noronha.
A calm still prevailed near Europa Point, but as the day wore on, the easterly breeze blew strong through the Straits, and, in company with innumerable other ships, the Pillars of Hercules were at length passed.
On the 30th May the wind changed to south, and as the current in the harbour was also favourable, we weighed anchor in the hope that in the Straits we might meet with an easterly wind.
The continuance of the south-easterly trade forced us to cross the Line at a more westerly point than usual.
By this time Fonseca was coasting along the shore, but the south-easterly winds preventing him from making Monterey, he entered the Bay of St. Francisco.
This stream was evidently one of the tributaries of the Red River, and was running in an easterly direction, and we were persuaded that it must flow through the chasm, and enter into the forest.
On getting out of it, he walked until he came to a dwelling a short distance easterly from what the fire had left of old Pearl Street.
The easterly end of Long Island is exceedingly ragged in its contour.
The moment he was again on board of his own ship, he took the helm himself, and he made as wide a sheer easterly as he could.
At hand is a railway-station, whence hundreds descend to take their pleasure, while easterly this once peaceful region is most populous and the Exmouth boats cross the estuary and land their passengers.
Far below, an estuary shone through the valley welter and ran a streak of dull silver from south to north; while easterly rose up the grey horizons of the sea.
