Excerpt from Galveston Jacinto River and Buffalo Bayou enter it from. The west 18 miles lower down. The mean rise and fall of tide at Galveston is. 1 - 116 feet, but spring-tides occasionally rise more than 3 feet above, and fall nearly two feet be low the plane of mean low water, and fluctua tions between much wider limits are not un common under the influence of heavy winds During a storm which occurred in October 1867, the water rose Gifio feet above mean low water stage, and in September, 1875, it rose in ...
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Excerpt from Galveston Jacinto River and Buffalo Bayou enter it from. The west 18 miles lower down. The mean rise and fall of tide at Galveston is. 1 - 116 feet, but spring-tides occasionally rise more than 3 feet above, and fall nearly two feet be low the plane of mean low water, and fluctua tions between much wider limits are not un common under the influence of heavy winds During a storm which occurred in October 1867, the water rose Gifio feet above mean low water stage, and in September, 1875, it rose in some portions of the bay 7 feet, and in others. 9 feet above the same level. Two years later there was a rise of 512 - 0 feet, produced by an on shore wind which reached a maximum velocity of 60 miles per hour. The lowest tide of which. We have any record fell 3726 feet below mean low-water level, thus giving a difference of 12373; feet between the highest and the lowest recorded tides. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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