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Article CONTEMPORARY LETTERS ON THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. ← Page 3 of 3 Article THE OCEAN. Page 1 of 2 →
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Contemporary Letters On The French Revolution.
The Prince de Concle ancl the other great houses haA'e plastered over the arms Avhich ivere on the gates of their hotels , so that they look like little sentinel boxes . As the Queen Avas getting into the carriage , AVednesday , the Poissardes said " notre Reine vous nous rcgardez pas de
bonne Avril . " She turned round and smiled . She Avas perfectly mistress of herself , the Avhole clay Avas uncommonly fine , and looked very cheerfull , the propos of the Poissardes must therefore have been determined before hand .
As my whole letter has been chit-chat , I cannot conclude it better than with a bon mot of Madame , which you may perhaps not have heard . The first time the King saw her after the titles ivere abolished , he said " Bon jour , Capet , " she immediately answered , "Bon jour Capofc . "
The Ocean.
THE OCEAN .
BY BRO . J . A . K . SOME of the early philosophers referred all things to Avater , and not Avithout reason . It is the agent of all terrestrial activity ,
the universal percolator and solvent , tho transferer of atoms from body to body , of soils from place to jilace , and of land itself into the silent bosom of its OAVII depths . Its tides and currents , its oA'aporations , its ' circuitsas cloudsrainand mistsand
, , , , its subservience to heat and atmospheric pressure , render it tho universal fertilizer . The tides are constantly iloAving and ebbing , ebbing and Sowing—never at rest . Once in every thirteen hours the tide taps at the door of every Avharfinger on the
Thames and other rivers , and asks , " Is there anything to go up , or is there anything to go down file river to-day ? for I am just ready to take it , " So punctual a servant is the tide that ive may place implicit reliance on its return at a proper time .
It is necessary , hoAvever , to Avatch its movements , for , unless kept Avithin bounds , it will take unbounded liberties , and not only tap at the door , but sometimes enter
the itemise . ? , and perhaps destroy the contents , if it does not carry them aAvay . Some people attribute the changeable character of the tide to its bavin" formed an o intimate connection ivith the Moon , for when tho Moon is in its infancy , or Avhen it is full groAvnthe tides arc always the
, most rampant , and are called springs ; ancl they are especially so at the time of the equinoxes in March ancl September . When the Moon is at either her first or third
quarter , then the tides are least active and are called neaps . The ocean rises and falls alternately , and its depth is observed to be greatest at any given place a certain time after tho Moon has passed tho meridian of that place ; after Avhich it decreases until it
reaches a certain point , when it again gradually rises . As there are two tides in each lunar clay , and as tho Moon comes to tho meridian ] later each day , so the tides are on an average fifty-two minutes later each clay , tho interval fluctuating at
different times of the year . At the London Docks the spring tides rise about 24 feet from IOAV Avater ; the neap tides about 18 feet . At Chepstow , in the Bristol Channel , the tide sometimes rises 50 feet . At the Bay of Fundy , Nova Scotia 60 or
, 70 feet . At Anapolis , 100 or 120 feet . In the middle of largo oceans the tides are much less . The spring tides in the middle of the Pacific only rise four or five foot , and the neaps two or two and a half feet . In the Mediterranean tho tides are
scarcely observable in consequence of the entrance being too contracted to admit of sufficient influx and reflux from the Atlantic to materially alter tho level , excepting for a limited distance ivithin the Strait of Gibraltar . The same cause operates with regard to tho Baltic and also with
lakes . There is an upper current constantly flowing into the Mediterranean through the Strait of Gibraltar , and in all probability an under current HOAVS out . Contrary currents passing along , side by
side , are not uncommon , In the Cattcgat , or northern current , it Hows out of tho Baltic along the coast of SAVeden , while a southern one enters the Baltic along tho coast of Denmark . When two opposite currents of about equal force meet one another , they sometimes , especially in
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Contemporary Letters On The French Revolution.
The Prince de Concle ancl the other great houses haA'e plastered over the arms Avhich ivere on the gates of their hotels , so that they look like little sentinel boxes . As the Queen Avas getting into the carriage , AVednesday , the Poissardes said " notre Reine vous nous rcgardez pas de
bonne Avril . " She turned round and smiled . She Avas perfectly mistress of herself , the Avhole clay Avas uncommonly fine , and looked very cheerfull , the propos of the Poissardes must therefore have been determined before hand .
As my whole letter has been chit-chat , I cannot conclude it better than with a bon mot of Madame , which you may perhaps not have heard . The first time the King saw her after the titles ivere abolished , he said " Bon jour , Capet , " she immediately answered , "Bon jour Capofc . "
The Ocean.
THE OCEAN .
BY BRO . J . A . K . SOME of the early philosophers referred all things to Avater , and not Avithout reason . It is the agent of all terrestrial activity ,
the universal percolator and solvent , tho transferer of atoms from body to body , of soils from place to jilace , and of land itself into the silent bosom of its OAVII depths . Its tides and currents , its oA'aporations , its ' circuitsas cloudsrainand mistsand
, , , , its subservience to heat and atmospheric pressure , render it tho universal fertilizer . The tides are constantly iloAving and ebbing , ebbing and Sowing—never at rest . Once in every thirteen hours the tide taps at the door of every Avharfinger on the
Thames and other rivers , and asks , " Is there anything to go up , or is there anything to go down file river to-day ? for I am just ready to take it , " So punctual a servant is the tide that ive may place implicit reliance on its return at a proper time .
It is necessary , hoAvever , to Avatch its movements , for , unless kept Avithin bounds , it will take unbounded liberties , and not only tap at the door , but sometimes enter
the itemise . ? , and perhaps destroy the contents , if it does not carry them aAvay . Some people attribute the changeable character of the tide to its bavin" formed an o intimate connection ivith the Moon , for when tho Moon is in its infancy , or Avhen it is full groAvnthe tides arc always the
, most rampant , and are called springs ; ancl they are especially so at the time of the equinoxes in March ancl September . When the Moon is at either her first or third
quarter , then the tides are least active and are called neaps . The ocean rises and falls alternately , and its depth is observed to be greatest at any given place a certain time after tho Moon has passed tho meridian of that place ; after Avhich it decreases until it
reaches a certain point , when it again gradually rises . As there are two tides in each lunar clay , and as tho Moon comes to tho meridian ] later each day , so the tides are on an average fifty-two minutes later each clay , tho interval fluctuating at
different times of the year . At the London Docks the spring tides rise about 24 feet from IOAV Avater ; the neap tides about 18 feet . At Chepstow , in the Bristol Channel , the tide sometimes rises 50 feet . At the Bay of Fundy , Nova Scotia 60 or
, 70 feet . At Anapolis , 100 or 120 feet . In the middle of largo oceans the tides are much less . The spring tides in the middle of the Pacific only rise four or five foot , and the neaps two or two and a half feet . In the Mediterranean tho tides are
scarcely observable in consequence of the entrance being too contracted to admit of sufficient influx and reflux from the Atlantic to materially alter tho level , excepting for a limited distance ivithin the Strait of Gibraltar . The same cause operates with regard to tho Baltic and also with
lakes . There is an upper current constantly flowing into the Mediterranean through the Strait of Gibraltar , and in all probability an under current HOAVS out . Contrary currents passing along , side by
side , are not uncommon , In the Cattcgat , or northern current , it Hows out of tho Baltic along the coast of SAVeden , while a southern one enters the Baltic along tho coast of Denmark . When two opposite currents of about equal force meet one another , they sometimes , especially in