The Gateway to the Polynia: A Voyage to SpitzbergenH.S. King, 1873 - 355 páginas |
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... darkened the air above us , and , as they swept along like a thick cloud , wheeling suddenly in their flight , produced a curious effect , —the dull - looking OBJECTS OF THE SEA - SHORE . 95 mass by 94 A VOYAGE TO SPITZBERGEN .
... darkened the air above us , and , as they swept along like a thick cloud , wheeling suddenly in their flight , produced a curious effect , —the dull - looking OBJECTS OF THE SEA - SHORE . 95 mass by 94 A VOYAGE TO SPITZBERGEN .
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... mass by a rapid change shone out in the clear air , white as a snowdrift , and then cohort after cohort would float past again in another cloud - like mass . The noise , too , of so many wings , and the wild , scared cries from a host ...
... mass by a rapid change shone out in the clear air , white as a snowdrift , and then cohort after cohort would float past again in another cloud - like mass . The noise , too , of so many wings , and the wild , scared cries from a host ...
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... masses of 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 ...
... masses of 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 ...
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... masses , and they become undermined and eaten away along the edges as they drift southwards towards the warmer water flowing north from the Gulf Stream , which seems to find a limit to its force about this latitude . Spreading out like ...
... masses , and they become undermined and eaten away along the edges as they drift southwards towards the warmer water flowing north from the Gulf Stream , which seems to find a limit to its force about this latitude . Spreading out like ...
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... masses of ice , and the distant pros- pect is laden with heavy looking blocks , interspersed with flatter snow , covering all the fields on which little FIRST EXPERIENCES . 103 hummocks of ice have formed . 102 A VOYAGE TO SPITZBERGEN .
... masses of ice , and the distant pros- pect is laden with heavy looking blocks , interspersed with flatter snow , covering all the fields on which little FIRST EXPERIENCES . 103 hummocks of ice have formed . 102 A VOYAGE TO SPITZBERGEN .
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12 Paternoster Row 65 Cornhill amongst animals Arctic circle Author Barentsz bear boat Cape Captain coast crew Crown 8vo curious danger deer Demy 8vo difficulty direction distance drift east Edition expedition explored fathoms fiord floating floe flora gale Greenland Gulf Stream harpoon herd hope Humboldt Glacier hummock Iceland Illustrated INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER journey Lancaster Sound land latitude London look masses miles Miocene Moffen Island mountain narwhal northern Norwegian Nova Zembla observed once open water ourselves Parry party Polar Pole present Price published by Henry pursuit reached region reindeer rocks round sailed sailors Samoyedes SCALLOWAY CASTLE schooner scientific seal season seems seen ship shore shot side sight sledge Smith Sound snow southward Spitzbergen sport Strait surface temperature thick tion vessel vols Waigatz walrus WALTER BAGEHOT warm weather whale Willem Barentsz wind winter