Unpublished paper, 'On the tides, bed and coasts of the North Sea or German Ocean' by John Murray

Description

Murray remarks that great similarity of outline pervades the western shores of Ireland, Scotland and Norway. He then observes that the great Atlantic flood-tide wave, having traversed the shores of the former countries, strikes with great fury the Norwegian coast between the Lafoden Isles and Stadland, one portion proceeding to the north, while the other is deflected to the south, which last has scooped out along the coast, as far as the Sleeve at the mouth of the Baltic, a long channel from 100 to 200 fathoms in depth, almost close in shore, and varying from 50 to 100 miles in width. After describing his method of contouring and colouring the Admiralty chart of the North Sea, he traces the course of the tide-wave among the Orkney and Shetland Islands along the eastern shores of Scotland and England to the Straits of Dover, and along the western shores of Norway, Denmark and the Netherlands, to the same point. Annotations in pencil throughout.

Subject: Oceanography

Received 20 March 1852. Read 10 June 1852. Communicated by George Rennie.

Written by Murray at 5 Whitehall, Westminster [London].

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 6 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'On the tides, bed and coasts of the North Sea or German Ocean'.

Reference number

AP/33/19

Earliest possible date

17 March 1852

Physical description

Ink and graphite pencil on paper

Page extent

25 pages

Format

Manuscript