 | William Longman - 1857 - 112 Seiten
...still more extraordinary sight presented itself. A kind of baby-glacier actually hung suspended halfway on the hill-side, like a tear in the act of rolling down the furrowed cheek of the mountain." — P. 300. 42 SLATE SINKS INTO GLACIER. into an elliptical form by the motion of the glacier, is a... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1858 - 924 Seiten
...more extraordinary sight presented itself. A kind of baby glacier actually hung suspended half-way on the hill-side, like a tear in the act of rolling down the furrowed cheek of the mountain. — Pp. 298-300. The narrator doubts his. own powers of language. Failing words, he tries the pencil,... | |
 | 1859 - 386 Seiten
...sight presented itself — a kind of baby glacier actually hung suspended half over on the hill side, like a tear in the act of rolling down the furrowed cheek of the mountain." But these wonderful glaciers, Lord Dufferin tells us, are by no means the largest in the island ; and... | |
 | William Jordan Unwin - 1862 - 374 Seiten
...extraordinary sight presented itself. A kind of baby glacier actually hung suspended half way on the hill side, like a tear in the act of rolling down the furrowed cheek of the mountain. The glaciers are the principal characteristic of the scenery in Spitzbergen ; the bottom of every valley... | |
 | Arctic discovery - 1799 - 424 Seiten
...more extraordinary sight presented itself. A kind of baby glacier actually hung suspended half-way on the hill-side, like a tear in the act of rolling down the furrowed cheek of the mountain. "In this case so unaccountable did it seem that the overhanging mass of ice should not continue to... | |
 | Wonders - 1866 - 400 Seiten
...more extraordinary sight presented itself. A kind of baby glacier actually hung suspended half-way on the hill-side, like a tear in the act of rolling...the falling impetus impressed on the surface of the Jan-Mayen ice-rivers ; but in this case, so unaccountable did it seem that the overhanging mass of... | |
 | James Macaulay - 1879 - 418 Seiten
...more extraordinary sight presented itself. A kind of baby glacier actually hung suspended half-way on the hill-side, like a tear in the act of rolling down the furrowed cheek of the mountain. " In this case, so unaccountable did it seem that the overhanging mass of ice should not continue to... | |
 | Jeannette Mirsky - 1970 - 400 Seiten
...with the barren valleys. "A kind of baby glacier actually hung suspended half way on the hill side, like a tear in the act of rolling down the furrowed cheek of the mountain." 8 The land that Barents had touched at, the land whose teeming fauna Hudson had observed, had known... | |
 | William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1858 - 598 Seiten
...more extraordinary sight presented itself. A kind of baby glacier actually hung suspended half-way on the hill-side, like a tear in the act of rolling down the furrowed cheek of the mountain.' — Pp. 298-300. The narrator doubts his own powers of language. Failing words, he tries the pencil,... | |
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... distinguish the further mountains peeping up above its surface. The height of the precipice where it fell into the sea, I should judge to have been about 120 feet. On the left a still more extraordinary sight presented itself. A kind of baby glacier... 