The Polar World: a Popular Description of Man and Nature in the Arctic and Antarctic Regions of the GlobeHarper & Brothers, 1869 - 486 páginas |
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... masses . The large ice - fields which the whaler encounters in Baffin's Bay , or on the seas between Spitzbergen and Greenland , constitute one of the marvels of the deep . There is a solemn grandeur in the slow majestic motion with ...
... masses . The large ice - fields which the whaler encounters in Baffin's Bay , or on the seas between Spitzbergen and Greenland , constitute one of the marvels of the deep . There is a solemn grandeur in the slow majestic motion with ...
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... masses not seldom twenty or thirty miles in diameter , and each weigh- upon the ice ; some have had their hulls ... mass- es that overhang the sea or have been undermined by its waters ; and in the winter , when the air is probably 40 ...
... masses not seldom twenty or thirty miles in diameter , and each weigh- upon the ice ; some have had their hulls ... mass- es that overhang the sea or have been undermined by its waters ; and in the winter , when the air is probably 40 ...
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... masses to which these give birth . In a high sea the waves beat against an iceberg as against a rock ; and in calm weather where there is a swell , the noise made by their rising and falling is tremendous . Their usual form is that of a ...
... masses to which these give birth . In a high sea the waves beat against an iceberg as against a rock ; and in calm weather where there is a swell , the noise made by their rising and falling is tremendous . Their usual form is that of a ...
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... masses , the water being discharged from lakes of melt- ed snow and ice which reposed in quietude far up in the valleys separating the high icy hills of their upper surface . From other bergs large pieces were now and then detached ...
... masses , the water being discharged from lakes of melt- ed snow and ice which reposed in quietude far up in the valleys separating the high icy hills of their upper surface . From other bergs large pieces were now and then detached ...
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... masses , fronting the storm like bulwarks , not seldom afford protection to ships mooring under their lee . Anchoring to a berg is , however , not always unattended with danger , par- ticularly when the summer is far advanced , or in a ...
... masses , fronting the storm like bulwarks , not seldom afford protection to ships mooring under their lee . Anchoring to a berg is , however , not always unattended with danger , par- ticularly when the summer is far advanced , or in a ...
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Página 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.
Página 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...