New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-02-15

Junction OF inc Norm ana EAst h'clt ile heFIuW
channel aud the natural DISTINCTIONS %, Htlnale VIII
account for It's tardy movement.
The range or rise aud ia oi the spring tide nj i'm.
portant points is follow: Al HGyre France. ,, feet
at London. lei, az Liverpool "; Mt Bristol (iing
Road a. nj NJ. John n. H., 23i az Saokyiile. n b.
90; Mt Quoboc 49, at Portland %, at Boston, 49, ri
Now Haven. 62i at New York, 5li West Point 12i
Albany 2.5 Phi'adclphi,, o.6 Baltimore, l.5; Wash.
ington "a Charleston. o. a little less ihin 0nohalf
oi each of these sums would respectively express the
range o. the ncup tide.
mo dcclnaton .. the moon has importer, relation
10 te periodical decrease In the hight Vi The dcWayc.
IL viii be readily perceived the waters cannot in
sauly respond TO Ae power OF the moon and there is
consequently . lassi8s u the great primary wave.
UsEFUL APPLICATION or TIDAL POWER.
l. The lido Ia used TO register It's own movements
The sctregistering tide gauge, used In The United
States Coast Survey constructed by the wei known
American inventor Joseph Saxton. A iul description
~ this instrument may 10 found In tic Coast Survey
Report Tor 1888. Tho importance of this instrument ia
recording an unusual action u TIE ocean will DO appre
cutcd by citing single case. On the 2id and 2oh oi
December lroi the tide gauge al San Diego registered
unusual curyos which noted by Lieut. 1rowbrldge
Oft Coast Survey and In communicating this fact
Prof Pache he added there seycry reason presume
that the effect was caused by sub marine earthquake
No shock had been felt along the Pacific Coast On the
2oiA OF June following accounts wero received In this
city Of violent earthquake at Japan. by which the
Russian frigae Diana in the port Of Simoda, was SO
injured as 10 be rendered useless.
Letters from japan gave the time at which these
shocks occurred OF these claimed 10 bo an extract
from tho logbook Of the Diana From thsso state.
mens and the registered both ut San Diego and
San Francisco Prof Bache calculated the rate OF mo-
ton OF the earthquakcwaycs at from 355 TO $40
miles per hour and tho length Of the waves on tho San
Diego path ut from lt3 TO 1872 miles; that on the San
Francisco path at 20 to 97 miles. Tho average depth
OF the on the San Francisco path was also cacu
lated from the ongth aud repidity OF the wave 10 be
900 hthomsi that on tho San Diego path at 2,l00
tuthoms.
The waves thus measured by Prof Bache, produced
by the heaylng OF the earth. form third class which
may be distinguished ~ waves Of Displacement.
An Interesting discussion followed the useful appli.
cation OF the power Of the tides and waves In which
M,ssrs. Wizard Garyoy, Rowoll Fisher and Miller par.
tcipaed.
The chairman remarked that the highest waves seen
on the Atlantic ocean did not exceed 20 ieot. In tie
southern ocean, which Is very deep aud unobsructod
10y islands, the waves are higher. on Cape Of Good
Hope some were estimated % have an elevation OF 40
feet wave form travels 10, own length IN tho lime Of
two oscillations; and the time OF an oscillation Is psopog
tOuIl TO spu0ro root of the WGyC leuFll.
MT. ENOs SIRyEAs Ioturrt-i 90 tic subject OF tides
and explained at length the oe, OF lp oOna dc cila-
L'u ulou tbs td,l ln high .tudes, A..cs "l.vA -Ae