When the fleet sailed up in July 1842 many of the soundings taken were over paddy-fields, and altogether out of the bed of the river, as the soundings and observations of the Espiegle clearly demonstrated.
After they had landed the ballast, cable and all heavy stores, they took careful soundings in the boat and marked the best line to the pool by bearings from the shore.
One could see no marks, the captain durst not stop for proper soundingsand the hand-lead, used from a platform that constantly changed its level, was not much guide.
Then they turned a quarter circle, the line got faint, as if it ran back to the East, and after they took soundings Mossamedes steamed into a wide, shallow bay.
Had soundings at seventy-five fathoms; the bottom a fine greenish sand.
We tried for soundings but could not anywhere find bottom at 25 and 30 fathoms depth.
We had regular soundingsall the way to Samarang, off which place we anchored on the 22nd in the afternoon; the church bearing south-east; distance from the shore half a league: depth of water two fathoms.
I tried for soundings but found no bottom at 230 fathoms depth.
The soundings in Adventure Bay are very regular: near the west shore are some patches of weed but no shoal or danger, the depth on them being from five to nine fathoms.
In this position we had soundingsat 57 fathoms, a sandy bottom.
The water appeared, at a much greater distance, considerably discoloured, from which I think there is reason to suppose that the soundings from this part of the coast run farther off to the westward.
A Chart of Botany-Bay, Port Jackson, and Broken-Bay, with the Coast and Soundings 7.
I did formerly believe, that there was an easy channel over the flats into the west river, but on this examination I think it rather difficult, if practicable at all, as the soundings are very irregular.
In the afternoon, seeing a brig at anchor under the land, we bore up in order to speak her, and in standing in, had regular soundings to seven fathoms.
During the night, we had regular soundings from 13 to 25 fathoms.
The dry part of this sand-bank is so very small, that in bad weather the sea must break entirely over it: there is regular soundings between it and the Brothers, from twenty-five to seventeen fathoms.
The 'Aurora' next day steamed round North Head and took a series of soundings between the main island and the Judge and Clerk.
Two soundings were obtained in one thousand nine hundred fathoms.
An inspection of the chart reveals the fact that the main direction of the shallowest water is in a north-west and south-east direction, but the number of soundings obtained was too small to give more than a general outline.
A few soundings had been made proving a depth of four hundred fathoms within one and a half miles of the land.
More than one hundred soundings were taken, which Blake, the geological surveyor, was to plot on the chart of the island which he had almost completed.
Very little was known of the sea-floor in this area, there being but a few odd soundings only, beyond a moderate distance from the Australian coast.
She then crept into the lee of the cliffs, a boat was dropped and soundingsdisclosed a deep passage at the mouth of Caroline Cove and ample water within.
Soundings were taken at frequent intervals with a hand lead-line, manipulated by Madigan.
After being at sea for a whole fortnight we had only three soundings to our credit, and it was, therefore, resolved to make for Macquarie Island.
By soundings the fringe of the Antarctic Continent as well as the Continental Shelf has been indicated through 55 degrees of longitude.
Several soundings made by Wilkes were indicative of the approach to land, but he must have frequently mistaken for it distant ice-masses frozen in the pack.
Five soundingswere taken, and, on July 9, the trawl was put over in three hundred and forty-five fathoms.
While skirting this obstacle, we disclosed by soundings a steep rise in the ocean's floor from a depth of about fifteen hundred fathoms to within seven hundred fathoms of the surface, south of which there was deep water.
The bottom was very irregular, and as an extra precaution, soundingswere taken every few minutes.
In Mr. White’s garden there are Chinese junks and catamarans afloat in a pond, and even the walls around are not allowed to be quite of dry land, being painted with sea soundings and charts of the neighbouring coasts.
Soundings of 18 and 21 fathoms are found on the northeast part.
Soundings show from 15 to 30 fathoms upon them, with a broken, rocky bottom.
On these inner groundssoundings are from 12 to 15 fathoms over sand and gravel.
It is a hake ground on the deeper soundings from September to December.
This is a good halibut bank, the fish being in 33 to 60 fathoms in June and July; the southwest soundings and the southeast soundings are most productive always.
Extends from the shore soundingsat White Island (one of the isles of Shoals) 7 or 8 miles SE.
It is known of course, that most species frequent the shallows and the deep water at the various seasons: also, that certain other species are found on the deeper soundingsduring virtually all the year.
On the shore soundings between Boston Harbor and Plymouth to Sandwich are many rocky ledges, which are favorite feeding grounds for cod In winter and fall.
Therefore I kept my wits in the chains, taking soundings of them both.
To him I listened (for well he read), especially a psalm to which I could for ever listen, full of noble navigation, deeper even than our soundings in the Bay of Biscay.
In his crafty sheep's-eyed manner, made of crawling piety mixed with sharp and spiteful worldliness, he began to feel my soundings towards a scheme so low and infamous, that my blood within me boiled for being forced to bear with him.
The soundings on the American coast are so regular that a navigator knows as well where he has made land by the soundings, as he would by seeing the land.
As our soundings showed us to be off Block Island, our course was due east, to Nantucket Shoals and the South Channel; but the wind died away and left us becalmed in a thick fog, in which we lay the whole of Sunday.
Eight miles farther down the stream soundings were taken, showing a depth of fourteen feet in mid-channel.
Chesterfield inlet in the main channel exceeded five fathoms in depth at all points tried, and soundings were only taken when I could see bottom, which was plainly visible at thirty feet and even more.
There the bottom slopes very abruptly, descending precipitously at a point not far from the north-east coast of the main island, where soundings have shown 4655 fathoms.
Our soundings at first were seven fathom, which held so a great while, but at length it decreased to six.
Well, sir, 'tis there my idea of taking soundings comes in.
What in the name of thunder do you want to take soundings for?
For some distance no land was seen, but as the soundings were very regular, Captain Furneaux was of opinion that no straits existed between New Holland and Van Diemen's Land, but only a very deep bay.
The next morning more islands were seen and soundings found.
On Sunday the 6th, we weighed, and although the weather was unfavourable, contrived to work out of soundings until 3 P.
The lead was thrown overboard, but no soundings were obtained, proving, beyond doubt, that the concussion had been communicated to the vessel.
Rennick showed himself very expert with the deep-sea gear and got his soundings far more easily than we had done in the "Discovery" and "Morning" days.
Scott sent me out in the whaler with a party to assist the ship; we sounded all round and quickly made a plan of the relative disposition of the soundings round the "Terra Nova.
Having regard to your interests in such matters, they also are left mainly to your judgment, and I wish only to specify some lines on which any soundings taken would be especially important.
The northern shore is the steepest, and its precipices nine hundred to twelve hundred feet high, with soundings of one hundred and fifty fathoms a boat’s length from their base.
They confine themselves to "exploring," which includes the taking ofsoundings of harbors, especially Magdalena Bay.
From our position off Cape Frankland, we carried a line of soundings across the passage south of Craggy Island, passing two miles to the eastward of it in twenty-seven fathoms.
The soundings will be found to decrease to 40 fathoms thirty miles to the eastward of King Island, and will continue within a fathom or two of that depth for the remainder of the distance.
In the afternoon we stood to the westward, in very even soundings of 15 fathoms.
Passing four miles from the western extremity of the Vernon Isles, we had irregular soundings of ten and seven fathoms.
We made the best of our way thither, after securing some soundings to the South-West of Sweers Island and carrying a line eastwards from it, midway across the gulf, where we found a very even dark sandy mud bottom, with a depth of 7 fathoms.
The tide hurried the Beagle past between these reefs with some rapidity, the soundings at the time being 19 fathoms.
She overshot Cape Race without knowing it and came to the soundings on the bank south of St. Peter's, where they found twenty fathoms, and then the course was set northwest by north for Cape Ray.
The soundings which the charts give on the banks are few, and, as all the books state, very uncertain, because no one has taken the trouble to survey this inhospitable island.
In the end they made shift to give us the soundings by signing with their fingers.
As the weather became warmer it was possible to penetrate through the ice so as to enable them to take soundings as to the depth of the sea.
I could do no good after having made a chart of the soundings round the ship, and went at last on to the bridge to sketch the scene.
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