 | History - 1778 - 626 pages
...of Newport was ever smooth while any whaling-vessels were in it : which probably arose from hencej that the blubber which they sometimes bring loose...oil to mix with that water, which from time to time (¡icy pump out to keep ihe vessel fret1; and that same oil might spread over the surface of the water... | |
 | History - 1791 - 634 pages
...which they fometimes bring loofe in the hold, or the leakage of their barrels, might afi'ord forae ou to mix with that water, which from time to time they pump out to keep the veflcl free ; and that fame oi! might fpread over the furface of the water in the harbour, and... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 610 pages
...proceeding from their bodies. A gentleman from Rhode Island told me, it had been remarked, that the harbor of Newport was ever smooth while any whaling vessels...might spread over the surface of the water in the harbor, and prevent the forming of any waves. This prevention I would thus endeavor to explain. There... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Economics - 1835 - 340 pages
...pi;ocecding from their bodies. A gentleman from Rhode- island told me, it had heen remarked, that the harbonr of Newport was ever smooth while any whaling vessels were in it; which prohably arose from henee, that the blnbher which they sometimes bring loose in the hold, or the leakage... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1840 - 640 pages
...it arises. In our journey to the North, -when -we- had the .pleasure of seeing you at Ormathwaite, we visited the celebrated Mr. Smeaton, near Leeds....from time to time they pump out, to keep their vessel v free, and that some oil might spread over the surface of the water in the harbour, and prevent the... | |
 | James Parton - Biography & Autobiography - 1864 - 668 pages
...proceeding from their bodies. " A gentleman from Rhode Island told me it had been remarked, that the harbor of Newport was ever smooth while any whaling vessels...some oil might spread over the surface of the water ha tho harbor, and prevent the forming of any waves." Such were his facts. The simple explanation at... | |
 | James Parton - 1865 - 672 pages
...proceeding from their bodies. " A gentleman from Rhode Island told me it had been remarked, that the harbor of Newport was ever smooth while any whaling vessels...might spread over the surface of the water in the harbor, and prevent the forming of any waves." Such were his facts. The simple explanation at which... | |
 | Jeremiah Chaplin - Biography & Autobiography - 1876 - 416 pages
...large, clear space. . . " A gentleman from Rhode Island told me it had been rejiarked, that the harbor of Newport was ever smooth, while any whaling vessels were in it; from which some oil might spread over the surface of the water. • • • • " Now I imagine that... | |
 | Philip Gengembre Hubert - Inventors - 1893 - 332 pages
...smooth as a looking glass. " A gentleman from Rhode Island told me it had been remarked that the harbor of Newport was ever smooth while any whaling vessels...might spread over the surface of the water in the harbor and prevent the forming of any waves." Thus Franklin collected his facts, taking them far and... | |
 | Philip Gengembre Hubert - 1895 - 330 pages
...smooth as a looking glass. " A gentleman from Rhode Island told me it had been remarked that the harbor of Newport was ever smooth while any whaling vessels...and that some oil might spread over the surface of ths water in the harbor and prevent the forming of any waves." Thus Franklin collected his facts, taking... | |
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... were, by the smoothness of the water over them, which might possibly be occasioned, he thought, by some oiliness proceeding from their bodies. A gentleman from Rhode Island told me, it had been remarked, that the harbor of Newport was ever smooth... 
