 ... are constantly becoming detached from this icy precipice, and tumble into the sea with a terrific roar and splash, and of course render it highly dangerous to go near the base in a boat. The surrounding sea is always filled with these fragments of...  Yachting in the Arctic Seas - Pagina 241door Sir James Lamont - 1876 - 387 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | James Lamont - 1861 - 362 pagina’s
...of thirty or thirty-two English miles, and protrudes in three great sweeping arcs, for at least five miles beyond the coast line. It has a precipitous...constantly becoming detached from this icy precipice, and tumble into the sea with a terrific roar and splash, and of course render it highly dangerous .to go... | |
 | 1862 - 448 pagina’s
...of thirty to thirty-two English miles, and protrudes in three great sweeping arcs for at least five miles beyond the coast line. It has a precipitous...feet in height ; pieces from the size of a church downward are constantly becoming detached from this icy precipice, and tumble into the sea with a terrific... | |
 | 1862 - 446 pagina’s
...of thirty to thirty-two English miles, and protrudes in three great sweeping arcs for at least five miles beyond the coast line. It has a precipitous...feet in height ; pieces from the size of a church downward are constantly becoming detached from this icy precipice, and tumble into the sea with a terrific... | |
 | 1862 - 476 pagina’s
...of thirty to thirty-two English miles, and protrudes in three great sweeping arcs for at least five miles beyond the coast line. It has a precipitous...hundred feet in height; pieces from the size of a church downward arc constantly becoming detached from this icy precipice, and tumble into the sea with a terrific... | |
 | John Francis Campbell - 1865 - 554 pagina’s
...English miles,t and protrudes in three great sweeping arcs for at least five miles beyond the coastline. It has a precipitous and inaccessible cliff of ice...constantly becoming detached from this icy precipice, and tumble into the sea with a terrific roar and splash, and of course render it highly dangerous to go... | |
 | 1865 - 458 pagina’s
...of thirty to thirty-two English miles, and protrudes in three great sweeping arcs for at least five miles beyond the coast line. It has a precipitous...feet in height ; pieces from the size of a church downward are constantly becoming detached from this icy precipice, and tumble into the sea with a terrific... | |
 | John Francis Campbell - 1865 - 548 pagina’s
...great sweeping arcs for at least five miles beyond the coastline. It has a precipitous and inaecessible cliff of ice all along its face, varying from twenty...hundred feet in height : pieces from the size of a chureh downwards are constantly becoming detached from this icy precipice, and tumble into the sea... | |
 | Henry Youle Hind - 1865 - 302 pagina’s
...seaward face from 30 to 32 English miles, and protrudes in three great sweeping areas for at least five miles beyond the coast line. It has a precipitous...inaccessible cliff of ice all along its face, varying from 20 to 100 feet in height. It has of course no visible terminal moraine above water, but Mr. Lamont... | |
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