Three Voyages for the Discovery of a North-west Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific: And a Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the the North Pole, Volumen1Harper, 1840 |
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... feet , and , be- ing accompanied with a loud noise , exactly re sembling the roar of distant thunder , presented a scene at once sublime and terrific . We could find no bottom near these icebergs with one hundred and ten fathoms of line ...
... feet , and , be- ing accompanied with a loud noise , exactly re sembling the roar of distant thunder , presented a scene at once sublime and terrific . We could find no bottom near these icebergs with one hundred and ten fathoms of line ...
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... feet in thickness . The wind died away towards midnight , and the weather was serene and clear . At six A.M. on the 23d , a thick fog came on , which rendered it impossible to see our way any farther . We therefore warped to an iceberg ...
... feet in thickness . The wind died away towards midnight , and the weather was serene and clear . At six A.M. on the 23d , a thick fog came on , which rendered it impossible to see our way any farther . We therefore warped to an iceberg ...
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... feet above the sea , there was scarcely any snow , but the mountains at the back were completely covered with it . Some pieces of birch - bark having been picked up in the bed of this stream in 1818 , which gave reason to suppose that ...
... feet above the sea , there was scarcely any snow , but the mountains at the back were completely covered with it . Some pieces of birch - bark having been picked up in the bed of this stream in 1818 , which gave reason to suppose that ...
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... feet upon the banks of the stream , which appeared so fresh that he at first imagined them to have been recently made by some natives , but which , on examination , were distinctly ascertained to be the marks of our own shoes , made ...
... feet upon the banks of the stream , which appeared so fresh that he at first imagined them to have been recently made by some natives , but which , on examination , were distinctly ascertained to be the marks of our own shoes , made ...
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... feet in length ; and he stated that he had several times heard them emit a shrill , ringing sound , not unlike that of mu- sical glasses when badly played . This sound , he farther observed , was most distinctly heard when they happened ...
... feet in length ; and he stated that he had several times heard them emit a shrill , ringing sound , not unlike that of mu- sical glasses when badly played . This sound , he farther observed , was most distinctly heard when they happened ...
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afforded amusement animals appeared beach began boat breeze cabin canoes Cape Captain Lyon Captain Sabine circumstances clear water close coast continued course deck direction distance drift eastward eight P.M. endeavour Esquimaux fathoms favourable feet five floe fore four fresh frostbites gale glaucous gulls Gore Bay Greenland Griper half past heavy Hecla hill hundred yards huts Iligliuk immediately inches inlet island Kabloona land length Lieutenant Liddon lying masses of ice Melville Island miles morning musk-ox navigation nearly night noon northward Northwest Passage o'clock observed occasion officers Okotook party passage pieces Possession Bay present quantity quarter ravine remark Repulse Bay round sail scarcely seal seen ships shore side situation six P.M. sledge snow soon Southampton Island southward stones Strait temperature tents thermometer thick tion to-day usual voyage walked weather westward whole wind Winter Harbour Winter Island