 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1845 - 574 pagina’s
...the preceding winter of 1841 he had seen the ice, in spite of the tide, which ran at the rate of 10 miles an hour, extending in one uninterrupted mass...examined these fallen blocks of amygdaloid scattered round me, and observed in them numerous geodes coated with quartz crystals. I have no doubt that the... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1845 - 262 pagina’s
...the preceding winter of 1841 he had seen the ice, in spite of the tide, which ran at the rate of 10 miles an hour, extending in one uninterrupted mass...fell from the summit of the cliff) a pile of which, d, fig. 16, lay at its base, were often frozen into the ice, and moved along with it. I then examined... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1845 - 320 pagina’s
...the preceding winter of 1841 he had seen the ice, in spite of the tide, which ran at the rate of 10 miles an hour, extending in one uninterrupted mass...fell from the summit of the cliff, a pile of which, d, fig. 16., lay at its base, were often frozen into the ice, and moved along with it. I then examined... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1845 - 560 pagina’s
...extending in one uninterrupted mass from the shore where we stood to the opposite coast at Parrshorough, and that the icy blocks, heaped on each other, and...often frozen into the ice, and moved along with it. 1 then examined these fallen blocks of amygdaloid scattered round me, and observed in them numerous... | |
 | 1846 - 508 pagina’s
...neighborhood as to the amount of ice with which the shores were loaded in winter, and received answer " that the icy blocks, heaped on each other, and frozen...often frozen into the ice, and moved along with it." The conclusion was satisfactory, both that the floating ice had, in the lapse of countless ages, whilst... | |
 | 1846 - 524 pagina’s
...neighborhood as to the amount of ice with which the shores were loaded in winter, and received answer " that the icy blocks, heaped on each other, and frozen...often frozen into the ice, and moved along with it." The conclusion was satisfactory, both that the floating ice had, in the lapse of countless ages, whilst... | |
 | 1847 - 586 pagina’s
...extending in one uninterrupted mass from the shore where we stood to the opposite coast at 'Parrsborougli, and that the icy blocks, heaped on each other, and...often frozen into the ice, and moved along with it. 1 then examined these fallen blocks of amygdaloid scattered round me, and observed in them numerous... | |
 | Joseph George Cumming - 1848 - 466 pagina’s
...uninterrupted mass from that side of the bay to the opposite coast of Parisborough, and that the icy rocks, heaped on each other, and frozen together, or packed...rose over the sandstone ledges. He also stated that blocks of a black amygdaloid, containing numerous geodes coated with quartz crystals, fell from the... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1855 - 304 pagina’s
...the preceding winter of 1841 he had seen the ice, in spite of the tide, which ran at the rate of 10 miles an hour, extending in one uninterrupted mass...fell from the summit of the cliff, a pile of which, d, fig. 16., lay at its base, were often frozen into the ice, and moved along with it. I then examined... | |
 | Hugh Miller, Harriet Myrtle - 1859 - 450 pagina’s
...mass from the shore where we stood, to the opposite coast of Parrsborough, and that the ice-blocks, heaped on each other and frozen together, or packed...often frozen into the ice, and moved along with it. And I have no doubt that the hardness of these gravers, firmly fixed in masses of ice, which, though... | |
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Parrsborough, and that the icy blocks, heaped on each other, and frozen together or ' packed,' at the foot of Cape Blomidon, were often fifteen feet thick, and were pushed along when the tide rose, over the sandstone ledges. He also stated that fragments... 
