 | 1857 - 426 Seiten
...— moving onwards like a great glacial river seeking outlets at every ford and valley, rolling its icy cataracts into the Atlantic and Greenland seas,...a mighty frozen torrent into unknown Arctic space. — Dr. Kane's Second Expedition. CEDAR SWAMPS OF NEW JERSEY. From the recent report on the geological... | |
 | Elisha Kent Kane - 1856 - 524 Seiten
...onward like a great glacial river, seeking outlets at every fiord and valley, rolling OF HUMBOLDT. 227 icy cataracts into the Atlantic and Greenland seas;...pouring out a mighty frozen torrent into unknown Arctic space.(4S) It is thus, and only thus, that we must form a just conception of a phenomenon like this... | |
 | 1857 - 424 Seiten
...this—moving onwards like a great glacial river seeking outlets at every ford and valley, rolling its icy cataracts into the Atlantic and Greenland seas,...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... | |
 | Frank Boott Goodrich - 1858 - 656 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...a mighty frozen torrent into unknown Arctic space. . . . Here was a plastic, moving, semi-solid mass, obliterating life, swallowing rocks and islands,... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1857 - 494 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...and, having at last reached the Northern limit of the laud that has borne it up, pouring out a mighty torrent into unknown Arctic space. The Summer of 1854... | |
 | Frank Boott Goodrich - 1858 - 614 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, peeking outlets at every fiord and valley, rolling icy cataracts into the Atlantic and Greenland seas,... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1859 - 812 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... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1859 - 1008 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...northern limit of the land that has borne it up, pouring ont a mighty frozen torrent into unknown arctic space. It is thus, and only thus, that we must form... | |
 | Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1862 - 392 Seiten
...increase from the water-shed of vast snow-covered mountains, and from all the precipitations of the atmosphere upon its own surface. Imagine this moving...at last reached the northern limit of the land that had borne it up, pouring out a mighty frozen torrent into unknown Arctic space. . . . Here was a plastic,... | |
 | Arctic discovery - 1799 - 424 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...mighty frozen torrent into unknown Arctic space." Lord Dufferin, in his "Letters from High Latitudes," gives an almost equally vivid description of the... | |
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Imagine now the centre of such a continent, occupied through nearly its 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... 
