 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1852 - 624 pages
...Honda, as far as Cape Florid^ or at least as far as Sol•dier key, is so shoal that it will forever remain inaccessible, except to -very small vessels....where they converge towards the main land, extending in the ferm of a flat crescent in a southwesterly direction, gradually receding from the main land... | |
 | A. R. Phippen - Education - 1854 - 472 pages
...will be seen that they are studded with a range of islands called the Florida Keys. These keys rise but a few feet, perhaps from six to eight or ten,...the sea. They begin to the north of Cape Florida, and extend in a southwesterly direction, gradually receding from the land until opposite Cape Sable.... | |
 | U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey - 1852 - 914 pages
...rising but a few feet, perhaps from six to eight or ten, or at the utmost tb Uvelve or thirteen ièet, above the level of the sea. They begin to the north...where they converge towards the main land, extending in -the form of a flat crescent in a southwesterly direction, gradually receding from the main land... | |
 | George William Fitch - History - 1856 - 276 pages
...will be seen that they are studded with a range of islands called the Florida Keys. These keys rise but a few feet, perhaps from six to eight or ten,...the sea. They begin to the north of Cape Florida, and extend in a southwesterly direction, gradually receding from the land until opposite Cape Sable.... | |
 | George William Fitch - History - 1856 - 274 pages
...will be seen that they are studded with a range of islands called the Florida Keys. These keys rise but a few feet, perhaps from six to eight or ten,...the sea. They begin to the north of Cape Florida, and extend in a southwesterly direction, gradually receding from the land until opposite Cape Sj.ble.... | |
 | James Dwight Dana - Coral reefs and islands - 1872 - 430 pages
...washed." Professor Agassiz gives the following general account of the Keys and Reefs (see also map) : " The Keys consist of an extensive range of low islands,...the sea. They begin to the north of Cape Florida, when they converge toward the main land, extending in the form of a flat crescent in a southwesterly... | |
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Sol•dier key, is so shoal that it will forever remain inaccessible, except to -very small vessels. The keys consist of an extensive range of low islands, rising but a few feet, perhaps from six to" eight or ten, or at the utmost to twelve or thirteen... 