 | Eliza Robbins - 1833 - 270 pagina’s
...thirty-six miles from the mouth of Mackenzie's Kiver, the intrepid traveller proceeded to the Polar Sea. " The purpose of the expedition was now completed, and...fury of the elements ; but the name of Mackenzie is recorded in the annals of discovery, as the first person who penetrated from sea to sea across the... | |
 | Patrick Fraser Tytler - 1841 - 376 pagina’s
...characters, upon the face of the rock under whose shelter they had slept, this simple memorial: " Alexandex Mackenzie, from Canada by land, the twenty-second...ninety-three." The inscription was only written in vermillion, and has probably long ago been washed away by the fury of the elements ; but the name of... | |
 | Charles Grenfell Nicolay - 1846 - 248 pagina’s
...Vancouver, Mackenzie inscribed in large characters with vermilion, mixed in melted grease, this brief memorial : — " Alexander Mackenzie, from Canada,...twenty-second of July, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four." He computed the latitude at 52° 21' N. "On the 23rd he reached the mouth of the river... | |
 | Patrick Fraser Tytler, Robert Michael Ballantyne - 1853 - 456 pagina’s
...they had slept, thin simple memorial: — "Alexander Mackenzie from Canada by land, the twenty- second of July, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three."...written in vermilion, and has probably long ago been • Mackenzie's Trarels, p. 331. washed away by the fury of the elements ; but the name of Mackenzie... | |
 | Patrick Fraser Tytler, Robert Michael Ballantyne - 1854 - 528 pagina’s
...now completed, and its indefatigable leader painted in large characters, upon the face of the rook under whose shelter they had slept, this simple memorial:...twenty-second of July, one thousand seven hundred and ninety- three." The inscription was only written in vermilion, and has probably long ago been washed... | |
 | Thomas Thomson - 1855 - 466 pagina’s
...vermilion in melted grease, and inscribed upon a rock on which he had passed the 423 night, this short memorial : " Alexander Mackenzie, from Canada by land,...July, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three." It was a necessary precaution, as only the day after, when he was upon his return homeward, he very... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Thomas Thomson - 1855 - 728 pagina’s
...grease, and inscribed upon a rock on which he had passed the 423 night, this short memorial : " Alezander Mackenzie, from Canada by land, the twenty-second...July, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three." It was a necessary precaution, as only the day after, when he was upon his return homeward, be very... | |
 | Robert Michael Ballantyne - 1872 - 184 pagina’s
...and thereon was written, in large letters, with a mixture of melted grease and vermilion, this brief memorial — " Alexander Mackenzie, from Canada, by...one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three." The return journey was scarcely less arduous than the outward, but they undertook it with the knowledge... | |
 | Sandford Fleming, Canadian Pacific Railway Company - 1874 - 328 pagina’s
...in large characters, on the southeast face of the rock on which we had slept last night, this brief memorial, — "ALEXANDER MACKENZIE, FROM CANADA, BY...TWENTY-SECOND OF JULY, ONE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED iSD NINETY-THREE." * * * * tThls I found to be the cheek of Vancouver's CASCADE CANAL. • 237 APPENDIX... | |
 | United States National Museum - 1905 - 1130 pagina’s
...there, in latitude 52° 20' north, left his mark on a rock by the seaside bearing the inscription: "Alexander Mackenzie from Canada by land the twenty-second...July, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three." Mackenzie's discoveries added new regions to the realms of British Empire and commerce, and in doing... | |
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I now mixed up some vermilion in melted grease, and inscribed, in large characters, on the South-East face of the rock on which we had slept last night, this brief memorial - 'Alexander Mackenzie, from Canada, by land, the twenty-second of July, one thousand... 
