 | 1868 - 746 sider
...with awful violence against the edge of the field on the farther side of the channel before us. These collisions were so tremendous that large masses were...ice which still divided the channel from the open sea would soon be completely destroyed." Upon finding he could proceed no farther, he adds : " With... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1840 - 650 sider
...collisions were so tremendous, mendouB, that large masses were every instant broken away, and it wu evident that the portion of ice which still divided...the floating pieces of ice, we should not have found linn footing upon our arrival. Even on oar own side fresh lanes of water were continually forming,... | |
 | 1840 - 1176 sider
...ocean, and were thrown by the waves with awful violence against the edge of the icefield on the farther side of the channel before us. The collisions were...attempted to have ferried ourselves across upon one of tbe floating pieces of ice, we should not have found firm footing upon our arrival. Even on our own... | |
 | Ferdinand Petrovich baron Wrangel - 1841 - 328 sider
...with awful violence against the edge of the field on the farther side of the channel before us. These collisions were so tremendous that large masses were...ice which still divided the channel from the open sea would soon be completely destroyed. Had we made the attempt to ferry ourselves across upon one... | |
 | Sir George Simpson - 1847 - 498 sider
...ocean, and were thrown by the waves with awful violence against the edge of the icefield on the farther side of the channel before us. The collisions were...attempted to have ferried ourselves across, upon one o£ the floating pieces of ice, we should not have found firm footing upon our arrival. Even on our... | |
 | Samuel Mosheim Smucker - 1857 - 1074 sider
...more than a hundred and fifty fathoms across. * * * * We climbed one of the loftiest icehills, where we obtained an extensive view towards the north, and...pieces of ice, we should not have found firm footing upqn our arrival. Even on our own side, fresh lanes of water were continually forming, and extending... | |
 | Georg Hartwig - 1869 - 602 sider
...us a melancholy spectacle ! Fragments of ice of enormous size floated on the surface of the water, and were thrown by the waves with awful violence against...soon be completely destroyed. Had we attempted to ferry ourselves across upon one of the floating pieces of ice, we should not have found firm footing... | |
 | Georg Hartwig - 1869 - 500 sider
...water, and were thrown by the waves with awful violence against the edge of the ice-field on the farther side of the channel before us. The collisions were...soon be completely destroyed. Had we attempted to ferry ourselves across upon one of the floating pieces of ice, we should not have found firm footing... | |
 | Georg Ludwig Hartwig - 1869 - 614 sider
...with awful violence against the edge of the ice-field on the further side of the channel before iis. The collisions were so tremendous, that large masses...soon be completely destroyed. Had we attempted to ferry ourselves across upon one of the floating pieces of ice, we should not have found firm footing... | |
 | Georg Hartwig - 1871 - 776 sider
...channel before us. The collisions were so tremendous that large masses were every instant broken awny, and it was evident that the portion of ice which still...soon be completely destroyed. Had we attempted to ferry ourselves across upon one of the floating pieces of ice, we should not have found firm footing... | |
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... side of the channel before us. The collisions were so tremendous, that large masses were every instant broken away, and it was evident that the portion of ice which still divided the channel from the open ocean, would soon be completely destroyed.... 
