 | 1844 - 688 strani
...this, moving onward like a great glacial river, seeking outlets at every fiord and valley, rolling icy cataracts into the Atlantic and Greenland seas...a mighty frozen torrent into unknown Arctic space. It is thus, and only thus, that we must form a juat conception of a phenomenon like this great glacier.... | |
 | 1856 - 604 strani
...this, moving onward like a great glacial river, seeking nutlets at every fiord and valley, rolling icy cataracts into the Atlantic and Greenland seas,...and, having at last reached the northern limit of land that has borne it up, pouring out a mighty frozen torrent into unknown Arctic space. " It is thus,... | |
 | Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - 1856 - 708 strani
...Imagine this, moving onward like a great glacial river, seeking outlet at every fiord and valley, rolling icy cataracts into the Atlantic and Greenland seas...mighty frozen torrent into unknown Arctic space." This extract affords a good specimen of Dr. Kane's literary and descriptive powers, which arc of a... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1856 - 520 strani
...Imagine this moving onward like a great glacial river, seeking outlets at even' fiord and valley, rolling icy cataracts into the Atlantic and Greenland Seas;...a mighty frozen torrent into unknown Arctic space. It is thus, and only thus, that we must form a just conception of a phenomenon like this Great Glacier.... | |
 | 1856 - 702 strani
...Imagine this, moving onward like a great glacial river, seeking outlet at every fiord and valley, roiling icy cataracts into the Atlantic and Greenland seas...mighty frozen torrent into unknown Arctic space." The open Polar Sea was not seen by Dr. Kane himself, owing to the state of nis health, which prevented... | |
 | Seba Smith, Elizabeth Oakes Prince Smith - 1856 - 592 strani
...Imagine this, moving on like a great glacial river, seeking outlets at every fiord and valley, rolling icy cataracts into the Atlantic and Greenland Seas,...and. having at last reached the northern limit of land that has borne it up, pouring ont a mighty frozen torrent into unknown Arctic space. " It is thus,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1856 - 520 strani
...this moving onward like, a great glacial river, seeking outlets at every fiord and valley, rolling icy cataracts into the Atlantic and Greenland Seas ; and having at last reached the northern hmit of the land that has borne it up, pouring out a mighty frozen torrent into unknown Arctic space.... | |
 | 1857 - 424 strani
...snow-eovered mountains and all the precipitations of the atmosphere upon its surface. Imagine this—moving onwards like a great glacial river seeking outlets...pouring out a mighty frozen torrent into unknown Arctic space.—Dr. Kane's Second Expedition. CEDAR SWAMPS OP NEW JERSEY. From the recent report on the geological... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 500 strani
...Imagine this moving onward like a great glacial river, seeking outlets at every fiord and valley, rolling icy cataracts into the Atlantic and Greenland seas...a mighty frozen torrent into unknown Arctic space. " It is thus, and only thus, that we must form a just conception of a phenomenon like this Great Glacier.... | |
 | Samuel Mosheim Smucker - 1857 - 1074 strani
...Imagine this moving onward like a great glacial river, seeking outlets at every fiord and valley, rolling icy cataracts into the Atlantic and Greenland seas...a mighty frozen torrent into unknown Arctic space. " It is thus, and only thus, that we must form a just conception of a phenomenon like this Great Glacier.... | |
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... whole extent by a deep unbroken sea of ice, that gathers perennial increase from the water-shed of vast snow-covered mountains, and all the precipitations of the atmosphere upon its own surface. Imagine this moving onward like a great glacial river,... 
