The Polar World: a Popular Description of Man and Nature in the Arctic and Antarctic Regions of the GlobeHarper & Brothers, 1869 - 486 sider |
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Side xii
... Sound in the " Advance " ( 1853 ) .— Winters in Rensselaer Bay . - Sledge Journey along the Coast of Greenland . The Three - brother Turrets . -Tennyson's Monument . - The Great Humboldt Glacier . - Dr . Hayes crosses Kennedy Channel ...
... Sound in the " Advance " ( 1853 ) .— Winters in Rensselaer Bay . - Sledge Journey along the Coast of Greenland . The Three - brother Turrets . -Tennyson's Monument . - The Great Humboldt Glacier . - Dr . Hayes crosses Kennedy Channel ...
Side 25
... sounds that ever disturb the repose of these awful solitudes . When the tropical hurricane sweeps over the virgin forests , it awakens a thousand voices of alarm ; but the Arctic storm , however furiously it may blow , scarce- ly calls ...
... sounds that ever disturb the repose of these awful solitudes . When the tropical hurricane sweeps over the virgin forests , it awakens a thousand voices of alarm ; but the Arctic storm , however furiously it may blow , scarce- ly calls ...
Side 27
... in Smith's Sound ( 78 ° 37 ' N. lat . ) , the mean of his best spirit - ther- mometer showed the unexampled temperature of -68 ° or 100 ° below the freezing - point of water . Then chlóric ether became THE ARCTIC LANDS . 27.
... in Smith's Sound ( 78 ° 37 ' N. lat . ) , the mean of his best spirit - ther- mometer showed the unexampled temperature of -68 ° or 100 ° below the freezing - point of water . Then chlóric ether became THE ARCTIC LANDS . 27.
Side 28
... Sound ( 76 ° 52 ' N. ) . Whym- per , on December 6 , 1866 , experienced -58 at Nulatto , Alaska ( 64 ° 42 ' N. ) . Whether the temperature of the air descends still lower on advancing to- ward the pole , or whether these extreme degrees ...
... Sound ( 76 ° 52 ' N. ) . Whym- per , on December 6 , 1866 , experienced -58 at Nulatto , Alaska ( 64 ° 42 ' N. ) . Whether the temperature of the air descends still lower on advancing to- ward the pole , or whether these extreme degrees ...
Side 29
... Sound ( 76 ° N. ) by the Swedish naturalists , who also discovered a plantain and a linden as high as 78 ° and 79 ° in King's Bay - a proof that in those times the climate of Spitzbergen can not have been colder than that which now ...
... Sound ( 76 ° N. ) by the Swedish naturalists , who also discovered a plantain and a linden as high as 78 ° and 79 ° in King's Bay - a proof that in those times the climate of Spitzbergen can not have been colder than that which now ...
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Side 6 - A Greek-English Lexicon. Compiled by HG LIDDELL, DD Dean of Christ Church, and R. SCOTT, D,D. Dean of Rochester.
Side 3 - WHYMPER'S ALASKA. Travel and Adventure in the Territory of Alaska, formerly Russian America— now Ceded to the United States— and in various other parts of the North Pacific.
Side 428 - Whenever it is low water, winter or summer, night or day, they must rise to pick shell-fish from the rocks ; and the women either dive to collect sea-eggs, or sit patiently in their canoes, and with a baited hair-line, without any hook, jerk out little fish. If a seal is killed, or the floating carcass of a putrid whale discovered, it is a feast ; and such miserable food is assisted by a few tasteless berries and fungi.
Side 393 - The head of the bay, as well as two places on each side, was terminated by perpendicular ice-cliffs of considerable height. Pieces were continually breaking off, and floating out to sea ; and a great fall happened while we were in the bay, which made a noise like cannon. The inner parts of the country were not less savage and horrible. The wild rocks raised their...