| 1844 - 688 Seiten
...perennial increase from the \vater-ahed of vast snow-covered mountains and all the precipitations of the atmosphere upon its own surface. Imagine this, moving...unknown Arctic space. It is thus, and only thus, that we must form a juat conception of a phenomenon like this great glacier. I had looked in my oirn mind... | |
| 1856 - 604 Seiten
...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, seeking nutlets at every fiord and valley, rolling icy cataracts into the Atlantic and Greenland seas, and,... | |
| Seba Smith, Elizabeth Oakes Prince Smith - 1856 - 592 Seiten
...mountains and all the precipitations of the atmosphere upon its own surface. Imagine this, moving on like a great glacial river, seeking outlets at every...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,... | |
| Elisha Kent Kane - 1856 - 506 Seiten
...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...seeking outlets at every fiord and valley, rolling OF HUMBOLDT. icy cataracts into the Atlantic and Greenland seas; and, having at last reached the northern... | |
| Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - 1856 - 708 Seiten
...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, seeking outlet at every fiord and valley, rolling icy cataracts into the Atlantic and Greenland seas ; and,... | |
| 1856 - 702 Seiten
...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, seeking outlet at every fiord and valley, roiling icy cataracts into the Atlantic and Greenland seas ; and,... | |
| Samuel Mosheim Smucker - 1857 - 1074 Seiten
...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...unknown Arctic space. " It is thus, and only thus, that we must form a just conception of a phenomenon like this Great Glacier. I had looked in my own mind... | |
| 1857 - 920 Seiten
...perennial increase from the watershed of vast snow-covered mountains, and all the precipitations of the atmosphere upon its own surface. Imagine this moving...the northern limit of the land that has borne it up, pouriug out a mighty frozen torrent into unknown Arctic space." During the short summer, various other... | |
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