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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... instant destruction from the rapid whirling and bursting of those huge floating masses , known by the * Colonial Magazine , vol . xiii , p . 340 . name of icebergs . Yet so powerfully infused into the 28 PROGRESS OF ARCTIC DISCOVERY .
... instant destruction from the rapid whirling and bursting of those huge floating masses , known by the * Colonial Magazine , vol . xiii , p . 340 . name of icebergs . Yet so powerfully infused into the 28 PROGRESS OF ARCTIC DISCOVERY .
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... aground in 61 fathoms . When they had ascended to the top , which was perfectly flat , they found a huge * Vol . I , p . 241-46 , 8vo . ed . white bear in quiet possession of the mass , who 44 PROGRESS OF ARCTIC DISCOVERY .
... aground in 61 fathoms . When they had ascended to the top , which was perfectly flat , they found a huge * Vol . I , p . 241-46 , 8vo . ed . white bear in quiet possession of the mass , who 44 PROGRESS OF ARCTIC DISCOVERY .
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... mass , who , much to their mortification and astonishment , plunged with- out hesitation into the sea from the edge of the preci- pice , which was fifty feet high . From careful observation it was found that there was no such land in ...
... mass , who , much to their mortification and astonishment , plunged with- out hesitation into the sea from the edge of the preci- pice , which was fifty feet high . From careful observation it was found that there was no such land in ...
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... masses of ice which floated in succes- sion past , was slow , and these , from their novelty , were regarded with peculiar attention from the grotesque shapes they assume . The progress of a vessel through such a labyrinth of frozen masses ...
... masses of ice which floated in succes- sion past , was slow , and these , from their novelty , were regarded with peculiar attention from the grotesque shapes they assume . The progress of a vessel through such a labyrinth of frozen masses ...
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... masses— " Whose blocks of sapphire seem to mortal eye Hewn from cerulean quarries in the sky , With glacier battlements that crowd the spheres , The slow creation of six thousand years , Amidst immensity they tower sublime , Winter's ...
... masses— " Whose blocks of sapphire seem to mortal eye Hewn from cerulean quarries in the sky , With glacier battlements that crowd the spheres , The slow creation of six thousand years , Amidst immensity they tower sublime , Winter's ...
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Admiralty Arctic arrived attempt August Back Baffin's Bay Barrow's Strait Beechey Behring's Strait boats Boothia Cape Walker Capt Captain Parry Captain Sir coast Commander Coppermine Coppermine River course crew deer direction discovery dispatched drift eastward endeavor England Enterprise Erebus and Terror Esquimaux examine expedition exploring feet floes frozen Fury gale harbor Hecla hope Hudson's Bay Hudson's Bay Company Indians journey July June Lady Franklin Lake Lancaster Sound land latitude Lieut Lieutenant Mackenzie River Melville Island miles named navigation North Somerset northern northward northwest passage officers pack Parry's party passage passed Plover Polar Sea proceeded provisions quarters reached Regent Inlet Repulse Bay Rescue Richardson Ross's sailed seamen season sent ships shore Sir James Ross Sir John Franklin Sir John Ross sledges snow southward Spitzbergen tion vessels Victoria Land voyage Wellington Channel westward whalers wind winter