Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold ; that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland Island, which seemed... The Island World of the Pacific Ocean - Seite 182von Charles Marion Tyler - 1887 - 337 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1845 - 604 Seiten
...circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold ; that they are near the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent...south ! Falkland island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of British ambition, is but a stage and resting-place, in the progress... | |
| Paul Preston, Thomas Picton - 1847 - 346 Seiten
...mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Uavis's Straits ; while we are looking for them beneath the...seemed too remote and too romantic an "object for (British) national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place for their victorious industry. Nor is... | |
| Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1848 - 662 Seiten
...behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits,—whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle,...South. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place, in the progress of their... | |
| New Hampshire Historical Society - 1850 - 354 Seiten
...behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay ar/d Davis's Straits ; whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle,...South. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting place in the progress... | |
| Success - 1851 - 362 Seiten
...behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits; whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle,...south. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place in the progress... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1852 - 558 Seiten
...behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle,...south. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place in the progress... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 Seiten
...behold them penctrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay, and Davis' Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the Arctic Circle,...South. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place in the progress... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1852 - 568 Seiten
...behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay, and Davis' Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the Arctic Circle,...South. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place in the progress... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1852 - 552 Seiten
...behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle,...south. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place in the progress... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 Seiten
...Davis' Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the Aretic Cirele, we hear that they have piereed into the opposite region of Polar cold, that they...South. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an objeet for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place in the progress... | |
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