The Gateway to the Polynia: A Voyage to SpitzbergenH.S. King, 1873 - 355 páginas |
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... floating , toiling ice . Here is a plain of some twenty square yards burthened with little mounds of ice covered with folds of frozen snow ; here is a patch of a hundred square yards more heavily weighted with little hummocks , as the ...
... floating , toiling ice . Here is a plain of some twenty square yards burthened with little mounds of ice covered with folds of frozen snow ; here is a patch of a hundred square yards more heavily weighted with little hummocks , as the ...
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... floating ice , driving it with sudden force , and grinding each block against its immediate neighbour ; then the brittle floor soon gets crushed and shattered in every direction . The newly - exposed fracture glints in the sunlight with ...
... floating ice , driving it with sudden force , and grinding each block against its immediate neighbour ; then the brittle floor soon gets crushed and shattered in every direction . The newly - exposed fracture glints in the sunlight with ...
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... float- ing object we are watching will plunge head foremost into the waves , and what was but recently its sub- merged ... floating masses of ice , and the distant pros- pect is laden with heavy looking blocks , interspersed with flatter ...
... float- ing object we are watching will plunge head foremost into the waves , and what was but recently its sub- merged ... floating masses of ice , and the distant pros- pect is laden with heavy looking blocks , interspersed with flatter ...
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... floating over the surrounding sea which have an interest of their own nearly equal to the lustre of the ice itself- we mean the air and water - worn portions of the ice , which , in their dissolution , grow into the resemblance of ...
... floating over the surrounding sea which have an interest of their own nearly equal to the lustre of the ice itself- we mean the air and water - worn portions of the ice , which , in their dissolution , grow into the resemblance of ...
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... float above the surface , their thickness can easily be calculated , for we only see one - tenth of the sub- merged mass above the sea . A block of ice of twelve feet elevation presents its front to the approaching ship . We must ever ...
... float above the surface , their thickness can easily be calculated , for we only see one - tenth of the sub- merged mass above the sea . A block of ice of twelve feet elevation presents its front to the approaching ship . We must ever ...
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