 As we approached the land under all studding sails, we perceived a low white line extending from its eastern extreme point as far as the eye could discern to the eastward. It presented an extraordinary appearance, gradually increasing in height as we...  Man and the Glacial Periodpor George Frederick Wright - 1892 - 385 páginasVista de fragmentos - Acerca de este libro
 | 1847 - 610 páginas
...under all studdingsails, we perceived a low white line extending from its extreme eastern point as far as the eye could discern to the eastward. It presented...and proving at length to be a perpendicular cliff of ire between 150 and 200 feet above the level of the fea, perfectly flat and level at the top, and without... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1850 - 782 páginas
...land under all sail, ' we perceived a low white line extending from its eastern extreme point as far as the eye could discern to the eastward. It presented...length to be a perpendicular cliff of ice, between 150 and 200 feet above the level of the sea, perfectly flat and level at the top, and without any fissures... | |
 | John Stilwell Jenkins - 1853 - 534 páginas
...Here the southern progress of the voyagers was brought to a close by the appearance of a continuous perpendicular cliff of ice between one hundred and fifty and two hundred feet above the level of the sea. It extended from the extreme point of land as far as the eye could see, in an easterly direction,... | |
 | 1856 - 580 páginas
...land under all sail, ' we perceived a low white line extending from its eastern extreme point as far as the eye could discern to the eastward. It presented...length to be a perpendicular cliff of ice, between 150 and 200 feet above the level of the sea, perfectly flat and level at the top, and without any fissures... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1917 - 688 páginas
...under all studding-sails, we perceived a low white line extending from its eastern extreme point as far as the eye could discern to the eastward. It presented...length to be a perpendicular cliff of ice, between 150 and 200 feet above the level of the sea, perfectly flat and level at the top, and without any fissures... | |
 | Josiah Dwight Whitney - 1882 - 420 páginas
...Erebus, 12,400 feet] we perceived a low white line extending from its extreme eastern point as far as the eye could discern to the eastward. It presented...length to be a perpendicular cliff of ice, between 150 and 200 feet above the level of the sea, perfectly flat and level at the top, and without any fissures... | |
 | George Frederick Wright, Warren Upham - 1889 - 662 páginas
...same navigator says : " We perceived a low white line extending from its extreme eastern point as far as the eye could discern to the eastward. It presented...length to be a perpendicular cliff of ice, between 150 and 200 feet above the level of the sea, perfectly flat and level at the top, and without any fissures... | |
 | 1886 - 896 páginas
...perceived a low white line extending from its extreme eastern point as far as the eye could perceive to the eastward. It presented an extraordinary appearance,...length to be a perpendicular cliff of ice between 150 and 200 feet above the level of the sea, perfectly flat and level at the top, and without any fissures... | |
 | 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
...under all studding sails, we perceived a low white line extending from its eastern extreme point as far as the eye could discern to the eastward. It presented...length to be a perpendicular cliff of ice between 150 and 200 feet above the level of the sea, perfectly flat and level at the top, and without any fissures... | |
 | George Frederick Wright - 1911 - 848 páginas
...navigator says : •' We perceived a low white line extending from its extreme eastern point as far as the eye could discern to the eastward. It presented...length to be a perpendicular cliff of ice, between 150 and 200 feet above the level of the sea, perfectly flat and level at the top, and without any fissures... | |
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