On the east side of the entry into the harbour there is a small fort of six guns, close to which the depth is twenty fathoms.
After going in little more than a league, the wind began to veer about, and they cast anchor in twenty fathoms; but the ground, consisting entirely of slippery stones, and the wind now blowing strong at N.
About two miles right off these two rocks is a sunken rock, which is very dangerous, especially if sailing in twenty fathoms, but by keeping in twenty-four fathoms all danger is avoided.
The 10th May, the wind and current both against as, the general went to a green island, to the north or the salt hill, where we came to anchor in twenty fathoms on good sand.
So I bore up, and came to anchor, four or five leagues within the Cape, in twenty fathoms close by two rocks.
The wind falling short, we were constrained to anchor between that island and the main, where we had very good ground in nineteen or twenty fathoms.
In the entrances are from ten to twenty fathoms, therefore if the wind should baffle, or fail, an anchor may be dropped at any moment.
There we met with from forty to twenty fathoms depth, over sharp coral rocks; so that anchoring would have been attended with much more danger than landing.
In standing in, it was not possible to avoid running over the edges of some of the shoals, on which we found from ten to twenty fathoms water; and the moment we were over, had no ground at the depth of fifty fathoms.
Outside this irregular border of Madrepores, the water deepens gradually to twenty fathoms, which depth generally is found at the distance of from half to three-quarters of a mile from the reef.
Cook found deep water (twenty fathoms) in some of the harbours within the reef.
At twenty fathoms, one sounding brought up a fragment of Madrepora apparently M.
At the base is a bank of Seriatopora, from fifteen to twenty fathoms in height.
The finer kinds are found only at a depth of from twelve to twenty fathoms.
Millepora alcicornis extends from the surface to the depth of twelve fathoms; the Madrepores and Seriatopores down to twenty fathoms.
On the 22d of December, night overtaking us, within about twenty miles of the Arcas, we anchored in twenty fathoms of water, in the open sea.
The water was of a chalky whiteness, a little tinged with green, resembling the water on the Bahama Banks, and we ran along in a depth of twenty fathoms, the entire day, scarcely varying a foot.
As soon as we had a cast of twenty fathoms, I anchored for the night, judging it much better than to be drifting about without any knowledge of the locality and currents to which we were subjected.
It is surrounded by a reef, three miles from which soundings were obtained, in twenty fathoms water.
At midnight, the water shoaled to twenty fathoms, when I dropped the anchor until daylight.
Strait of Magellan, ten to twenty fathoms, attached to shells; often entirely surrounding pebbles, forming globular masses; associated with Verruca laevigata.
North-eastern shores of England, fifteen to twenty fathoms, imbedded in dead shells of Fusus antiquus and Buccinum undatum (A.
The depth of water in the lake varied from four to six fathoms; but in the narrow neck which connects it with the sea the depth is from ten to twenty fathoms, being deepest at the narrowest parts.
Our soundings in crossing varied from fifteen to twenty fathoms, chiefly over rocky ground.
We can't see bottom at twenty fathoms even in water as clear as this.
It was off the western shore of the island, probably close to the reef, in twenty fathoms.
There he lies, twenty fathoms down, probably covered with barnacles and waiting to be rescued.
There, at twenty fathoms, he and Scotty shook hands solemnly while the tiny fish swam around them like curious gnats.
The wreck of the Warrior, after slipping off the ledge on which she struck, sank in twenty fathoms water.
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