Sir John Franklin and the Arctic Regions: With Detailed Notices of the Expeditions in Search of the Missing Vessals Under Sir John FranklinGeo. H. Derby and Company, 1852 - 396 páginas |
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... four months at a time , exploring the bare rocks and everlasting ice , with no companion but the white bear or the Arctic fox , may be all very romantic at a distance ; but the mere thought of a winter residence there , frozen fast in ...
... four months at a time , exploring the bare rocks and everlasting ice , with no companion but the white bear or the Arctic fox , may be all very romantic at a distance ; but the mere thought of a winter residence there , frozen fast in ...
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... four vessels to pro- ceed toward the North Pole , under the command of Captain John Ross . No former expedition had been fitted out on so extensive a scale , or so completely equipped in every respect as this one . The circum- stance ...
... four vessels to pro- ceed toward the North Pole , under the command of Captain John Ross . No former expedition had been fitted out on so extensive a scale , or so completely equipped in every respect as this one . The circum- stance ...
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... four centuries , was found to be accessible from the 70th to the 80th degree of latitude , and the interme- diate sea between it and Spitzbergen was so entirely open in the latter parallel , that a Hamburgh ship had actually sailed ...
... four centuries , was found to be accessible from the 70th to the 80th degree of latitude , and the interme- diate sea between it and Spitzbergen was so entirely open in the latter parallel , that a Hamburgh ship had actually sailed ...
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... four o'clock A. M. , the land was seen at the bottom of the inlet by the officers of the watch , but before I got on deck a space of about seven degrees of the compass was obscured by the fog . The land which I then saw was a high ridge ...
... four o'clock A. M. , the land was seen at the bottom of the inlet by the officers of the watch , but before I got on deck a space of about seven degrees of the compass was obscured by the fog . The land which I then saw was a high ridge ...
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... four huge gla- ciers , of which the most remarkable , though the small- est in size , is situated 200 feet above the sea , on the slope of a mountain . From its peculiar_appearance this glacier has been termed the Hanging Iceberg . Its ...
... four huge gla- ciers , of which the most remarkable , though the small- est in size , is situated 200 feet above the sea , on the slope of a mountain . From its peculiar_appearance this glacier has been termed the Hanging Iceberg . Its ...
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