 It was a beautifully clear evening, and we had a most enchanting view of the two magnificent ranges of mountains whose lofty peaks, perfectly covered with eternal snow, rose to elevations varying from seven to ten thousand feet above the level of the...  The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist - Page 4771847Full view - About this book
 | Enoch Lewis, Samuel Rhoads - Society of Friends - 1848 - 856 pages
...discovered, which they ascertained to be 10,000 feet high, and 30 miles from the coast. "It was a beautiful clear evening, and we had a most enchanting view of...intervening valleys, and which descended from near the mountains' summits, projected in many places several miles into the sea, and terminated in lofty perpendicular... | |
 | Sir John Richardson - Antarctica - 1861 - 438 pages
...fragments of volcanic stones. In the evening, says Captain Ross, the atmosphere was beautifully clear, " and we had a most enchanting view of the two magnificent...with eternal snow, rose to elevations varying from 7000 to 10,000 feet above the level of the ocean. The glaciers filled their intervening valleys, which... | |
 | Thomas Milner - Australia - 1872 - 684 pages
...eminent individuals at home were given. Near views of the newly-discovered country are thus described : ' It was a beautifully clear evening ; and we had a...with eternal snow, rose to elevations varying from 7000 to 10,000 feet above the level of the ocean. The glaciers that filled their intervening valleys,... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1882 - 262 pages
...M individuals at homo were given. Xcar views of the newly-discovered country are thus described : ' It was a beautifully clear evening ; and we had a...enchanting view of the two magnificent ranges of mountains, whoso lofty peaks, perfectly covered with eternal snow, roso to elevations varying from 7000 to 10,000... | |
 | National cyclopaedia - 1884 - 670 pages
...Mount Erebus and Beaufort Island. Near views of the newly-discovered country are tbna described: — "It was a beautifully clear evening; and we had a most enchanting view of the t wo magnificent ranges of mountains, whose lofty pcakx, perfectly covered with eternal enow, row to... | |
 | New Zealand Institute - Science - 1874 - 638 pages
...illustrate the subject, I cannot do better than transcribe the explorer's own words. He says : — " It was a beautifully clear evening, and we had a most...varying from seven to ten thousand feet above the ocean. The glaciers that filled their intervening valleys, and which descended from near the mountain... | |
 | Maurice James Ross - History - 1994 - 476 pages
...that it was a continent. By the evening, they were close to the land but could not make a landing. "It was a beautifully clear evening, and we had a...seven to ten thousand feet above the level of the ocean."23 The range of mountains stretching to the northwest was named the Admiralty Range. Measurements... | |
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