Hidden fields
Books Books
" We found we were fast closing this chain of bergs, so closely packed together, that we could distinguish no opening through which the ships could pass, the waves breaking violently against them, dashing huge masses of... "
The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist - Page 481
1847
Full view - About this book

A Voyage of Discovery and Research in the Southern and Antarctic ..., Volume 1

Sir James Clark Ross - Antarctica - 1847 - 478 pages
...smaller dimensions. We found we were fast closing this chain of bergs, so closely packed together that we could distinguish no opening through which the ships...them nearly to their summit, then forcing them again fajr beneath their water-line, and sometimes rending them into a multitude of brilliant fragments against...
Full view - About this book

The Cottager's monthly visitor, Volume 28

1848 - 444 pages
...dimensions. We found we were fast closing this chain of bergs, so closely packed together, that we could distinguish no opening through which the ships...summit, then forcing them again far beneath their water line, and sometimes rending them into a multitude of brilliant fragments against their projecting...
Full view - About this book

The North British Review, Volumes 8-9

1848 - 626 pages
...James Ross, " We found we were fast closing this chain of bergs. so closely packed together that we could distinguish no opening through which the ships...breaking violently against them, dashing huge masses of pack-ice auainst the precipitous faces of the bergs; now lifting them nearly to their summit, then...
Full view - About this book

Visitor: Or Monthly Instructor

1848 - 530 pages
...says sir James, we found we were fast closing this chain of bergs, so closely packed together that we could distinguish no opening through which the ships...breaking violently against them, dashing huge masses of pack-ice against the precipitous faces of the bergs ; now lifting them nearly to their summit, then...
Full view - About this book

Friends' Review: A Religious, Literary and Miscellaneous Journal, Volume 1

Enoch Lewis, Samuel Rhoads - Society of Friends - 1848 - 856 pages
...J. C. Ross, "We found we were fast closing this chain of bergs, so closely packed together that we could distinguish -no opening through which the ships...breaking violently against them, dashing huge masses of pack-ice against the precipitous faces of the bergs ; now lifting them nearly to their summit, then...
Full view - About this book

Summer in the Antarctic Regions: A Narrative of Voyages of Discovery Towards ...

Charles Tomlinson - Antarctica - 1848 - 214 pages
...dimensions. "We found we were fast closing this chain of bergs, so closely packed together that we could distinguish no opening through which the ships...the waves breaking violently against them, dashing masses of pack ice against the precipitous faces of the bergs ; now lifting them nearly to their summit,...
Full view - About this book

The American Journal of Science and Arts

1849 - 1118 pages
...found," says the narrator, " we were fast closing this chain of bergs so closely packed together that we could distinguish no opening through which the ships...the waves breaking violently against them, dashing large masses of pack ice against the faces of the bergs ; now lifting them nearly to their summit,...
Full view - About this book

A universal geography

Thomas Milner - 1850 - 604 pages
...1841 : — "We found that we were fast closing a chain of bergs, so closely packed together that we could distinguish no opening through which the ships...ice against the precipitous faces of the bergs ; now lifiing them nearly to their summit, then forcing them again far beneath their water-line, and sometimes...
Full view - About this book

Voyages round the world, from the death of captain Cook to the present time

World - 1852 - 588 pages
...says Sir James Ross, " we were fast closing this chain of icebergs, so closely packed together that we could distinguish no opening through which the ships could pass, the waves breaking violently against CHAP. vm. them, dashing huge masses of pack-ice against the precipitous face of the bergs, now lifting...
Full view - About this book

Dizionario francese, italiano, inglese. A concise dictionary of the French ...

Alfred Elwes - 1872 - 306 pages
...dimensions. We found we were fast closing1 this chain of bergs, so closely packed together that we could distinguish no opening through which the ships...breaking violently against them, dashing huge masses of pack-ice2 against the precipitous faces of the bergs ; now lifting them nearly to their summit, then...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF