 | Trumbull White - 1902 - 752 Seiten
...perennial increase from the water-shed of vast snow-covered mountains and all the precipitations of that 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,... | |
 | 1904 - 816 Seiten
...perennial increase from the water-shed of vast snowcovered mountains and all the precipitations of the atmosphere upon its own surface. Imagine this moving...like a great glacial river, seeking outlets at every fjord and valley, rolling icy cataracts into the Atlantic and Greenland seas ; and, having at last... | |
 | Helen Saunders Wright - 1910 - 622 Seiten
...perennial increase from the water-shed of vast snow-covered mountains, and all the precipitation of the atmosphere upon its own surface. Imagine this moving...outlets at every fiord and valley, rolling icy cataracts and having at last reached the northern limit of the land that has borne it up, pouring out a mighty... | |
 | George Frederick Wright - 1911 - 840 Seiten
...cataracts into the Atlantic and Greenland 'Arctic Explorations," vol. i, p. 135. seas ; and, having at lust reached the northern limit of the land that has borne...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 - 1911 - 848 Seiten
...from the water-shed of vast snow-covered mountains and all the precipitations of its atmosphere npon its own surface. Imagine this, moving onward like...rolling icy cataracts into the Atlantic and Greenland * " Arctic Explorations," vol. i, p, 135. seas ; and, having at last reached the northern limit of... | |
 | 1857 - 872 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...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 iny own mind... | |
 | 1927 - 852 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...last reached the northern limit of the land that has born it up, pouring out a mighty frozen torrent into unknown Arctic space." His description of the... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1857 - 730 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... | |
 | 1857 - 872 Seiten
...mountains, and all the precipitations of the atmosphere upon its own surface. Imagine this moving onwaid like a great glacial river, seeking outlets at, every...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 - 588 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...rolling icy cataracts into the Atlantic and Greenland eeas, and having at last reached the northern limit of the land that has borne it up, pouring out a... | |
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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... 
