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Example sentences for "nine fathoms"

  • From hence we fell in with a bank of from three to nine fathoms, which extends along the coast above 180 leagues.

  • Next morning we beat down the main channel, which was called the Queen's, the deep water varying from five to nine fathoms being on the west side.

  • We had a shoal cast of nine fathoms (eight at low-water) ten miles west from Point Pearce.

  • The latter winds round to the South-East for a distance of 15 miles, with an average width of two, and a depth of nine fathoms.

  • The 18th we came to anchor in nine fathoms on fine sand in the road of Tammarin, a league from shore, and right over against the king's house.

  • The anchorage under its command is in nine fathoms downwards.

  • At ten o'clock, finding the ebb began, I anchored in nine fathoms water, over a gravelly bottom.

  • At low water, having weighed and towed the ship into the harbour, we anchored there in nine fathoms water, over a bottom of sand and mud.

  • We now stood to the southward; and, after running six leagues, shoaled the water to seven fathoms, but it soon deepened to nine fathoms.

  • The basin is very shoal, but there is a narrow channel in the centre, with from five to nine fathoms water.

  • When you have opened the inlet, steer in, and, having passed the inner cape, haul in to a sandy bay on the eastern side, where you may anchor in eight or nine fathoms at pleasure.

  • In the former case the anchor may be dropped in nine fathoms, at a quarter to half a mile from the beach of the island.

  • The 30th June we anchored in nine fathoms, about two leagues from the coast of Coromandel, where we rode four days, being hardly able to visit each other in all that time, owing to W.

  • I went over it in nine fathoms, at which time the two high hills over Gogo were nearly N.

  • Upon this we weighed, and stood in till dark, and then anchored in nine fathoms, having a fine, clear, sandy bottom.

  • We coasted this low shore, as we had done in the preceding voyage, at the distance of two or three miles, having from twenty-three to twenty-nine fathoms water.

  • We at length, however, struck soundings with twenty-nine fathoms of line, and at eight P.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    after his; find water; gave place; last word; little paper; mental attitude; nine cases; nine children; nine days; nine degrees; nine dollars; nine eggs; nine fathoms; nine feet; nine guns; nine knots; nine members; nine miles; nine shillings; nineteen hundred; ninety feet; ninety miles; one hundred thousand francs; silver penny; somewhere else; this day