 ... feet above the level of the sea, perfectly flat and level at the top, and without any fissures or promontories on its even seaward face What was beyond it we could not imagine ; for, being much higher than our mast-head, we could not see anything...  Man and the Glacial Periodpor George Frederick Wright - 1892 - 385 páginasVista de fragmentos - Acerca de este libro
 | Sir James Clark Ross - 1847 - 470 páginas
...flat and level at the top, and without any fissures or promontories on its even seaward face. What was beyond it we could not imagine ; for being much higher than our mast-head, we could not see any thing except the summit of a lofty range of mountains extending to the southward as far as the... | |
 | 1847 - 640 páginas
...low white line extending from its without any fissures or promontories on its even seaward face. What was beyond it we could not imagine ; for being much higher than our mast's head, we could not see anything except the summit of a lofty range of mountains, extending to... | |
 | 1847 - 610 páginas
...flat and level at the top, and without any fissures or promontories on its even seaward face. Whal was beyond it we could not imagine; for being much higher than our mast's head, we could nol see anything except the summit of a lofly range of mountains, extending to... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1847 - 580 páginas
...flat and level at the top, and without any fissures or promontories on its even seaward face. What was beyond it we could not imagine; for being much higher than our mast's head, we could not see anything except the summit of a lofty range of mountains, extending to... | |
 | Charles Tomlinson - 1848 - 214 páginas
...and without any fissures or promontories on its even seaward face ; nothing could be seen beyond it except the summit of a lofty range of mountains, extending to the southward as far as the 79th degree of latitude. These mountains were named after Captain Sir WE Parry. This obstruction was... | |
 | John Stilwell Jenkins - 1853 - 534 páginas
...What was beyond it could only be guessed at, for the ice being much higher than the mast-heads, they could not see anything except the summit of a lofty...southward as far as the seventyninth degree of latitude, and to which the name of the Parry Mountains was given. If the coast line corresponds with the direction... | |
 | Charles Tomlinson - 1872 - 392 páginas
...and without any fissures or promontories on its even seaward face ; nothing could be seen beyond it except the summit of a lofty range of mountains, extending to the southward as far as the 79th degree of latitude. These mountains were named after Captain Sir WE Parry. This obstruction was... | |
 | George Frederick Wright, Warren Upham - 1889 - 662 páginas
...flat and level at the top, and without any fissures or promontories on its even seaward face. What was beyond it we could not imagine ; for, being much higher than our mast-head, we could npt see anything except the summit of a lofty range of mountains extending to the southward as far... | |
 | George Barnett Smith - 1900 - 276 páginas
...Beaufort Island, after Captain Francis Beaufort, hydrographer to the Admiralty. Next came into view a lofty range of mountains extending to the southward as far as the seventy-ninth degree of latitude, which Ross felt great satisfaction in naming after Captain Sir William Edward Parry, in remembrance... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1906 - 660 páginas
...perfectly flat and level at the top, and without any fissures or promontories on its even seaward face What was beyond it we could not imagine ; for, being much...mountains extending to the southward as far as the 79th degree of latitude. These mountains, being the southernmost land hitherto discovered, I felt great... | |
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