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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... distance , about the cause of which naturalists and travellers by no means agree . Most probably it results from the great length of the two digits of the cloven hoof , which when the animal sets its foot upon the ground separate widely ...
... distance , about the cause of which naturalists and travellers by no means agree . Most probably it results from the great length of the two digits of the cloven hoof , which when the animal sets its foot upon the ground separate widely ...
Side 50
... distance like masses of burnished metal or solid flame . Nearer at hand they were huge blocks of Parian marble inlaid with mammoth gems of pearl and opal . One in particular exhibited the perfection of the grand . Its form was not ...
... distance like masses of burnished metal or solid flame . Nearer at hand they were huge blocks of Parian marble inlaid with mammoth gems of pearl and opal . One in particular exhibited the perfection of the grand . Its form was not ...
Side 52
... distance by their natural effulgence , and in foggy weather by a peculiar blackness in the atmosphere . As they are not unfrequently drifted by the Greenland stream considerably to the south of Newfoundland , sometimes even as far as ...
... distance by their natural effulgence , and in foggy weather by a peculiar blackness in the atmosphere . As they are not unfrequently drifted by the Greenland stream considerably to the south of Newfoundland , sometimes even as far as ...
Side 54
... distance of five or six leagues , may be discern- ed when just appearing above the horizon with a common perspective - glass , and the summits of mountains are visible at the distance of from sixty to a hundred miles . On such sunny ...
... distance of five or six leagues , may be discern- ed when just appearing above the horizon with a common perspective - glass , and the summits of mountains are visible at the distance of from sixty to a hundred miles . On such sunny ...
Side 55
... distance . Nothing can be more wonderful than the phenomena of the atmosphere de- pendent on reflection and refraction , which are frequently observed in the Arc- tic seas , particularly at the commencement or approach of easterly winds ...
... distance . Nothing can be more wonderful than the phenomena of the atmosphere de- pendent on reflection and refraction , which are frequently observed in the Arc- tic seas , particularly at the commencement or approach of easterly winds ...
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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...