 | 1843 - 586 páginas
...means of the ice.' At the head of Magdalena bay is a high pyramidal mountain of granite, termed Kotge Hill, from the myriads of small birds of that name which frequent its base, and which appear to prefer its environs to every other part of the harbour. This bird with a foreign name,... | |
 | Frederick William Beechey - 1843 - 392 páginas
...with headlong impetuosity upon the beach, to the great hazard of any boat that may chance to be near. At the head of the bay there is a high pyramidal mountain...small birds of that name which frequent its base, and which appear to prefer its environs to every other part of the harbour. They are so numerous, that... | |
 | 1843 - 590 páginas
...slightest desire to attempt to approach it again by means of the ice.' At the head of Magdulena bay is a high pyramidal mountain of granite, termed Rotge...small birds of that name which frequent its base, and which appear to prefer its environs to every other part of the harbour. This bird with a foreign name,... | |
 | Peter Lund Simmonds - 1852 - 424 páginas
...of six thousand years, Amidst immensity they tower sublime, Winter's eternal palace, built by Time." At the head of the bay there is a high pyramidal mountain...frequent its base, and appear to prefer its environs to every other part of the harbor. " They are so numerous that we have frequently seen an uninterrupted... | |
 | David Landsborough - 1852 - 206 páginas
...of their nesting there. Captain Beechy, in his account of the Voyage towards the North Pole in 1815, remarks: " At the head of the bay there is a high pyramidal mountain of granite termed Rotge (ic, Little Auk) Hill, from the myriads of small birds of that name which frequent its base. They are... | |
 | 1855 - 334 páginas
...Admiral Beechey, in his narrative, speaks of a high pyramidal mountain of granite in Magdalena Bay, " termed Rotge Hill, from the myriads of small birds of that name which frequent its base, and which appear to prefer its environs to every other part of the harbour. They are so numerous, that... | |
 | Samuel Mosheim Smucker - 1857 - 1074 páginas
...of six thousand years. Amidst immensity they tower sublime, Winter's eternal palace, built by Time." At the head of the bay there is a high pyramidal mountain...frequent its base, and appear to prefer its environs to every other part of the harbor. " They are so numerous that we have frequently seen an uninterrupted... | |
 | Francis Orpen Morris - 1857 - 430 páginas
...Pole, writes thus of them, in describing the scenery of Magdalen Bay, on the west of the island. — "At the head of the Bay there is a high pyramidal mountain of granite, termed Rodge Hill, from the myriads of birds, the Rotche, that frequent its base, and which appeared to prefer... | |
 | Samuel Mosheim Smucker - 1857 - 530 páginas
...of six thousand years, Amidst immensity they tower sublime, Winter's eternal palace, built by Time." At the head of the bay there is a high pyramidal mountain of granite, termed Eotge Hill, from the myriads of small birds of that name which frequent its base, and appear to prefer... | |
 | Peter Lund Simmonds - 1860 - 346 páginas
...cf six thousand years, Amidst immensity they tower sublime, Winter's eternal palace, built by Time." At the head of the bay there is a high pyramidal mountain...frequent its base, and appear to prefer its environs to every other part of the harbour. " They are so numerous that we have frequently seen an uninterrupted... | |
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Hill, from the myriads of small birds of that name which frequent its base, and appear to prefer its environs to every other part of the harbour. " They are so numerous that we have frequently seen an uninterrupted line of them extending full half way... 
