gulph

In the latitude of 29° 30 ', longitude 41° 30', the wind slackened and veered more to the S.E. We now began to see some of that sea-plant, which is commonly called gulph-weed, from a supposition that it comes from the Gulph of Florida.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 15 Forming A Complete History Of The Origin And Progress Of Navigation, Discovery, And Commerce, By Sea And Land, From The Earliest Ages To The Present Time Robert Kerr 1784

We set sail, steering our course towards the East Indies through the Persian gulph, which is formed by the coasts of Arabia Felix on the right, by those of Persia on the left, and, according to common account, is seventy leagues in the broadest place.

The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01 Anonymous

To finish the description of this place, which may well be called the gulph, as nothing ever returns from it, it is not possible for ships to get off from it, when once they come within ft certain distance of it.

The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01 Anonymous

In the bofom of the gulph is a low ifland of conliderable extent.

Travels round the world, in the years 1767, 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771 1791

Dunsfold would probably be thankful if to-day the "gulph" were wider.

Highways and Byways in Surrey Eric Parker 1912

He had already almost crossed, without the least hazard, the great gulph which is betwixt

The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 16 John Dryden 1665

I was driving to Croydon one morning in my four-wheeled one-'oss chay, and just as I got to Lilleywhite, the blacksmith's, below Brixton Hill, they had thrown up a drain -- a 'gulph' I may call it -- across the road for the purpose of repairing the gas-pipe -- I was rayther late as it was, for our 'ounds are werry punctual, and there was nothing for me but either to go a mile and a half about, or drive slap over the gulph.

Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities Robert Smith Surtees 1833

But an earthquake had changed the scene -- under our very feet the earth yawned -- deep and precipitous the gulph below opened to receive us, while the hours charioted us towards the chasm.

Dave Astor: Mary Shelley and 9/11 Dave Astor 2011

But an earthquake had changed the scene -- under our very feet the earth yawned -- deep and precipitous the gulph below opened to receive us, while the hours charioted us towards the chasm.

Dave Astor: Mary Shelley and 9/11 Dave Astor 2011

In these . . . they descend the river on trading and hunting expeditions on the sea coast, neighboring islands and keys . . . and sometimes cross the gulph of Mexico, extending their navigations to the Bahama Islands and even to Cuba.

A Vessel of Indian Culture Stuart Ferguson 2011