A Collection of the Most Celebrated Voyages & Travels, from the Discovery of America to the Present Time: Arranged in Systematic Order, Geographical and Chronological. The Whole Exhibiting a Faithful and Lively Delineation of the World. Carefully Selected from Writers of Different Nations. In Four Volumes, Bind 2Mackenzie and Dent, 1818 |
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Side 55
... mountain - cabbage , whose ma- jestic trunk , and fine palmated foliage , stand unrivalled in the vegetable world . While we were gazing at this vegetable giant , Vandyke cut on its bark the initials of our frames , and the date of our ...
... mountain - cabbage , whose ma- jestic trunk , and fine palmated foliage , stand unrivalled in the vegetable world . While we were gazing at this vegetable giant , Vandyke cut on its bark the initials of our frames , and the date of our ...
Side 93
... to look at . The waves were running , what those who delight in hyperbolical description would call , mountains high . GRAY'S LETTERS FROM CANADA . 93 the topographical description of a country so little known to ...
... to look at . The waves were running , what those who delight in hyperbolical description would call , mountains high . GRAY'S LETTERS FROM CANADA . 93 the topographical description of a country so little known to ...
Side 94
... mountains high . In fact , we were so deeply immersed sometimes , and the waves were rolling so high around us , that we could not see the top- gallant royals of a frigate that happened to be within a few hundred yards of us , so that ...
... mountains high . In fact , we were so deeply immersed sometimes , and the waves were rolling so high around us , that we could not see the top- gallant royals of a frigate that happened to be within a few hundred yards of us , so that ...
Side 95
... mountains , or islands of ice which are known to float in these latitudes at this season of the year . Those floating islands are of great height , some have been ascertained to rise upwards of 200 feet from the surface of the sea ; the ...
... mountains , or islands of ice which are known to float in these latitudes at this season of the year . Those floating islands are of great height , some have been ascertained to rise upwards of 200 feet from the surface of the sea ; the ...
Side 99
... mountains appear to be of great height , and they are all covered with snow . ' On the south side of the river St. Lawrence , the province of Canada extends to the entrance of the river at cape Rosier , where you have the district of ...
... mountains appear to be of great height , and they are all covered with snow . ' On the south side of the river St. Lawrence , the province of Canada extends to the entrance of the river at cape Rosier , where you have the district of ...
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