| Edmund Burke - 1851 - 886 páginas
...path, and presenting a fearful prospect of their worst anticipations. But when least expected, their release was almost miraculously brought about : the...innumerable fragments, as if by some unseen power ! The crews now worked with energy to warp the ships clear of the floes, bat it was not until the 25th... | |
| 1849 - 734 páginas
...expected by us, our release was almost miraculously brought about. The great field of ice was ren* into innumerable fragments as if by some unseen power....of the 24th, but it was not until noon of the 25th of September that the Enterprise could clear the pack It is impossible to convey any idea of the sensation... | |
| Charles Richard Weld - 1850 - 58 páginas
...Investigator, when athwart of Pond's Bay. But, in the words of Sir James Ross, " when least expected, their release was almost miraculously brought about." The...field of ice was rent into innumerable fragments, which were tossed here and there in chaotic confusion, literally realizing Coleridge's lines in the... | |
| Peter Lund Simmonds - 1852 - 424 páginas
...Sound. " After passing its entrance, the ice drifted in a more southerly direction , along the western shore of Baffin's Bay, until we were abreast of Pond's...innumerable fragments, as if by some unseen power." By energetic exertion, warping, and sailing, the ships got clear of the pack, and reached an open space... | |
| 1854 - 604 páginas
...icebergs obstructed the way, and every one expected the ships would be dashed to pieces, when suddenly the great field of ice was rent into innumerable fragments, as if by some unseen power, and the ships floated free in open water, after enduring for one whole month the idea of certain and... | |
| University magazine - 1854 - 790 páginas
...icebergs obstructed the way, and every one expected the ships would be dashed to pieces, when suddenly the great field of ice was rent into innumerable fragments, as if by some unseen power, and the ships floated free in open water, after enduring for one whole month the idea of certain and... | |
| 1854 - 796 páginas
...icebergs obstructed the way, and every one expected the ships would be dashed to pieces, when suddenly the great field of ice was rent into innumerable fragments, as if by some unseen power, and the ships floated free in open water, after enduring for one whole month the idea of certain and... | |
| Samuel Mosheim Smucker - 1857 - 1074 páginas
...Sound. " After passing its entrance, the ice drifted in a more southerly direction , along the western shore of Baffin's Bay, until we were abreast of Pond's...innumerable fragments, as if by some unseen power." By energetic exertion, warping, and sailing, the ships got clear of the pack, and reached an open space... | |
| Samuel Mosheim Smucker - 1857 - 530 páginas
...more southerly direction , along the western shore of Baffin's Bay, until we were abreast offPond's Bay, to the southward of which we observed a great...innumerable fragments, as if by some unseen power." By energetic exertion, warping, and sailing, the ships got clear of the pack, and reached an open space... | |
| Thomas Frost - 1874 - 366 páginas
...Saunders to meet Ross. 197 expected by us, our release was almost miraculously brought about. This great field of ice was rent into innumerable fragments, as if by some unseen power." By great exertions on the part of the crews, continued during many days, the ships were extricated... | |
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