 | Geological Society of London - 1853 - 560 Seiten
...northward along the coast of West Greenland, and thus diminish the annual mean temperature both of the sea and of the atmosphere, we find the glacier approaches...land, for a space of probably seventy or eighty miles. * Appendix to Capt. Penny's Voyages. t Appendix to Sutherland's Journal of Capt. Penny's Voyage, 1852,... | |
 | Geological Society of London - 1862 - 664 Seiten
...between these apparent islands the enormous glacial accumulations slowly seek their passage to the sea." In Melville Bay (lat. 75°), it presents to the sea...continuous wall of ice, unbroken by land for a space of 70 or 80 miles; and the average thickness, he tells us, is 1200 to 1500 feet, but in some of tie valleys... | |
 | Geological Society of London - 1853 - 576 Seiten
...northward along the coast of West Greenland, and thus diminish the annual mean temperature both of the sea and of the atmosphere, we find the glacier approaches...land, for a space of probably seventy or eighty miles. * Appendix to Capt. Penny's Voyages. t Appendix to Sutherland's Journal of Capt. Penny's Voyage, 1852,... | |
 | Sir Edward Augustus Inglefield, George Dickie, Peter Cormack Sutherland - 1853 - 274 Seiten
...atmosphere, we find the glacier approaches nearer and nearer the coast-line, until in Melville Bay, latitude 75°, it presents to the sea one continuous wall of...southward of Melville Bay there are numerous outlets in the coast for the ice, and they vary in breadth from two or three up to fifteen to twenty miles.... | |
 | Sir Edward Augustus Inglefield, George Dickie, Peter Cormack Sutherland - 1853 - 282 Seiten
...northward along the coast of West Greenland, and thus diminish the annual mean temperature both of the sea and of the atmosphere, we find the glacier approaches...and nearer the coast-line, until in Melville Bay, latitude 75°, it presents to the sea one continuous wall of ice, unbroken by land for a space of probably... | |
 | Geological Society of London - 1862 - 720 Seiten
...between these apparent islands the enormous glacial accumulations slowly seek their passage to the sea." In Melville Bay (lat. 75°), it presents to the sea...continuous wall of ice, unbroken by land for a space of 70 or 80 miles ; and the average thickness, he tells us, is 1200 to 1500 feet, but in some of the valleys... | |
 | Henry Youle Hind - 1865 - 302 Seiten
...inequalities of the surface."} of west Greenland, and thus diminish the annual mean temperature both of the sea and of the atmosphere, we find the glacier approaches nearer and nearer the coast line, until in Melville Bay, latitude 75°, it presents to the sea one continuous wall of ice,... | |
 | Thomas Rupert Jones - 1875 - 906 Seiten
...northward along the coast of West Greenland, and thus diminish the annual mean temperature both of the sea and of the atmosphere, we find the glacier approaches...by land, for a space of probably seventy or eighty m iles. To the southward of Melville Bay, there are numerous outlets for the ice in the coast, and... | |
 | Geological Society of London - 1853 - 572 Seiten
...northward along the coast of West Greenland, and thus diminish the annual mean temperature both of the sea and of the atmosphere, we find the glacier approaches...75°, it presents to the sea one continuous wall of icej unbroken by land, for a space of probably seventy or eighty miles. * Appendix to Capt. Penny's... | |
 | 1927 - 852 Seiten
...the atmosphere, we find the glacier approaches nearer the coast-line, until in Melville Bay, latitude 75°, it presents to the sea one continuous wall of...for a space of probably seventy or eighty miles." In 1869 the American artist Bradford, accompanied by Dr. Hayes, made a journey to West Greenland by... | |
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... in Melville Bay, lat. 75°, it presents to the sea one continuous •wall of ice, unbroken by land, for a space of probably seventy or eighty miles. 