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Comprising Some of the Most Striking Narratives on Record Davis Wasgatt Clark. WISH VS THE WIND - SOVTH DANIEL B FEARING NEWPORT RI 5.4.5 . 586. 1892 W. p . 261-267 Andrew W. Webster . June 1857.
Comprising Some of the Most Striking Narratives on Record Davis Wasgatt Clark. WISH VS THE WIND - SOVTH DANIEL B FEARING NEWPORT RI 5.4.5 . 586. 1892 W. p . 261-267 Andrew W. Webster . June 1857.
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... Wind River Mountains , which form the loftiest land in the northern continent , and are at all times covered with snow of daz- zling whiteness . From the great hight above the level of the sea which the party had at- tained , the ...
... Wind River Mountains , which form the loftiest land in the northern continent , and are at all times covered with snow of daz- zling whiteness . From the great hight above the level of the sea which the party had at- tained , the ...
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... wind " rose to a heavy gale , and the waves ran to a prodigious hight . At one mo- ment our frail bark danced upon the crest of a wave , and at the next fell with a surge into the trough of the sea ; and as we looked at the swell before ...
... wind " rose to a heavy gale , and the waves ran to a prodigious hight . At one mo- ment our frail bark danced upon the crest of a wave , and at the next fell with a surge into the trough of the sea ; and as we looked at the swell before ...
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... wind . In about an hour it lulled a little , and Captain Wyeth ordered the boats to be again launched , in the hope of being able to weather a point about five miles below before the gale again . commenced , where we could lie by till ...
... wind . In about an hour it lulled a little , and Captain Wyeth ordered the boats to be again launched , in the hope of being able to weather a point about five miles below before the gale again . commenced , where we could lie by till ...
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... wind which swept over the ice . " In one moment , " says the trav- eler , " without a chance of escape , the fall of the bridge might have precipitated them into the gulf beneath . Yet no such idea ever en- tered the imagination of my ...
... wind which swept over the ice . " In one moment , " says the trav- eler , " without a chance of escape , the fall of the bridge might have precipitated them into the gulf beneath . Yet no such idea ever en- tered the imagination of my ...
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