Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific: And Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volumen1Harper & brothers, 1840 |
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... floe of ice , like a bay , by which name it is sometimes called . BLINK . A peculiar brightness in the atmosphere , often assuming an arch - like form , which is generally perceptible over ice or land covered with snow . The blink of ...
... floe of ice , like a bay , by which name it is sometimes called . BLINK . A peculiar brightness in the atmosphere , often assuming an arch - like form , which is generally perceptible over ice or land covered with snow . The blink of ...
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... floe . " STREAM - A long and narrow , but generally continuous , collec- tion of loose ice . TONGUE . A mass of ice projecting under water from an iceberg or floe , and generally distinguishable at a considerable depth of smooth water ...
... floe . " STREAM - A long and narrow , but generally continuous , collec- tion of loose ice . TONGUE . A mass of ice projecting under water from an iceberg or floe , and generally distinguishable at a considerable depth of smooth water ...
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... floe - ice " intermixed with them , be- yond which , to the westward , nothing but ice could be seen . At noon we had soundings , with one hundred and twenty fathoms of line , on a bottom of fine sand , which makes it probable that most ...
... floe - ice " intermixed with them , be- yond which , to the westward , nothing but ice could be seen . At noon we had soundings , with one hundred and twenty fathoms of line , on a bottom of fine sand , which makes it probable that most ...
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... floe till the weather should clear up . The afternoon was employed in taking on board a supply of water from the floe . It may be proper at once to remark that , from this time till the end of the voyage , snow - water was exclu- sively ...
... floe till the weather should clear up . The afternoon was employed in taking on board a supply of water from the floe . It may be proper at once to remark that , from this time till the end of the voyage , snow - water was exclu- sively ...
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... floe , called by the sailors a " natural dock . " 66 Early on the morning of the 26th there was clear water as far as we could see to the west- ward , which , on account of the fog , did not exceed the distance of three hundred yards ...
... floe , called by the sailors a " natural dock . " 66 Early on the morning of the 26th there was clear water as far as we could see to the west- ward , which , on account of the fog , did not exceed the distance of three hundred yards ...
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afforded amusement animals appeared Arctic Circle Aurora Borealis beach became began boat breeze canoes Cape Captain Lyon Captain Sabine circumstances clear water close coast cold considerable continued course direction distance drift eastward eight P.M. endeavour Esquimaux fathoms favourable feet five floe fore four fresh frostbites gale glaucous gulls Greenland Griper ground half past heavy hill hole hundred yards huts Iligliuk immediately inches inlet Kabloona land length Lieutenant Liddon lying Melville Island miles morning musk-ox navigation nearly night noon northward Northwest Passage o'clock observed occasion officers Okotook party piece Possession Bay present ptarmigan quantity quarter ravine remark Repulse Bay sail scarcely scorbutic seal seen seven ships shore side situation six P.M. sledge snow snowdrift soon Southampton Island southward stones Strait temperature tents thermometer thick tion usual walked weather westward whole wind Winter Harbour Winter Island