It covers the area of a market-place, and makes the water alive for fathoms down.
A gentle slope gravitated to an uneven bottom whose depth was about fifteen fathoms.
Soundings showed seven fathoms where before the eruption there were thirty-six fathoms of water.
Two broke, from the heat of the fire; the other ten were sunk three hundred fathoms deep into the sea.
Each canoe should be provided with thirty fathoms of strong line for towing over swift water, and every man well armed.
Its shores seemed covered with greenery from its beaches to its summits inland, crowned by Mt. Kapogo, which is 476 fathoms high.
Every vessel has at least two negroes in it, who are very dextrous in diving to the depth of six fathoms, where they find good store of pearls.
Conseil rejoined me, and gluing his huge copper capsule to mine, his eyes gave me a friendly greeting. But this lofty plateau measured only a few fathoms, and soon we reentered Our Element.
With a northerly blow she might turn rather close to the shore, where the soundings run to 3 fathoms, but behind such a stretch of ice she could scarcely get a sea or swell without warning.