 | George Chaplin Child- Chaplin - 1866 - 308 Seiten
...mountains, and all the precipitation of the atmosphere upon its own surface. Imagine this moving onwards like a great glacial river, seeking outlets at every fiord and valley, rolling cataracts into the Atlantic and Greenland seas ; and having at last reached the northern limit of the... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1857 - 598 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.' Another of these sledge expeditions... | |
 | John Tillotson - 1869 - 368 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...mighty frozen torrent into unknown Arctic space." But notwithstanding Kane's earnest desire to approach the great glacier, his health prevented him.... | |
 | 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 Ihe recent report on the geological... | |
 | Frank Boott Goodrich - 1873 - 726 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,... | |
 | R. M. DEVENS - 1876 - 1014 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 out a mighty frozen torrent into unknown Arctic space." This ingenious... | |
 | 1878 - 842 Seiten
...atmosphere upon its own surface Imagine (his moving on like a great glacial river, seeking an outlet at every fiord and valley, rolling icy cataracts into the Atlantic and Greenland sea. It is thus, and thus only, that we must form a just conception of a great glacier. It was slowly... | |
 | George Frederick Wright - 1889 - 704 Seiten
...perennial increase from the water-shed of vast snow-covered mountains and all the precipitations of its 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 Frederick Wright, Warren Upham - 1889 - 662 Seiten
...perennial increase from the water-shed of vast snow-covered mountains and all the precipitations of its atmosphere upon its own surface. Imagine this, moving...rolling icy cataracts into the Atlantic and Greenland "Arctic Explorations," vol. i, p. 135. seas ; and, having at last reached the northern limit of the... | |
 | George Frederick Wright - 1891 - 698 Seiten
...rolling icy cataracts into the Atlantic and Greenland sees ; and, having at last reached the northera limit of the land that has borne it up, pouring out...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... | |
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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... 
