 | Elisha Kent Kane - 1856 - 524 pagina’s
...From one of these rugged islets, the nearest to the glacier which could be approached with any thing like safety, I could see another island larger and...mere wrinkles, expanded as they came nearer, and were THE ESCALADED STRUCTURE. crossed almost at right angles by long continuous lines of fracture parallel... | |
 | Elisha Kent Kane - 1856 - 514 pagina’s
...From one of these rugged islets, the nearest to the glacier which could be approached with any thing like safety, I could see another island larger and...feature indicated activity, energy, movement. THE ESCA LADED STRUCTURE. The surface seemed to follow that of the basiscountry over which it flowed. It... | |
 | Elisha Kent Kane - 1856 - 504 pagina’s
...From one of these rugged islets, the nearest to the glacier which could be approached with any thing like safety, I could see another island larger and...feature indicated activity, energy, movement. THE ESCA LADED STRUCTURE. The surface seemed to follow that of the basiscountry over which it flowed. It... | |
 | Elisha Kent Kane - 1857 - 490 pagina’s
...ice still detaching themselves and splintering as they fell upon that portion which protruded. Kepose was not the characteristic of this seemingly solid...mere wrinkles, expanded as they came nearer, and were THE ESCALADEO STRUCTURE. crossed almost at right angles by long continuous lines of fracture parallel... | |
 | Eli Bowen - 1865 - 512 pagina’s
...could see another island, larger and closer in shore, already half covered by the encroaching faee of the glacier, and great masses of ice still detaching...plain, with a general inclination of some nine degrees, (till diminishing toward the foreground. Crevasses, in the distance mere wrinkle.*, expanded as they... | |
 | Geological Society of Glasgow - 1868 - 290 pagina’s
...to the south, its face seemed broken with piles of earth and rock-stained rubbish. Repose, however, was not the characteristic of this seemingly solid...every feature indicated activity, energy, movement. From one of the rugged islets, the nearest to the glacier which could be approached with anything like... | |
 | John Wells Foster - 1869 - 480 pagina’s
...table-land, with a relief and depression corresponding with the surface of the soil. '•Repose," says Kane, "was not the characteristic of this seemingly solid...every feature indicated activity, energy, movement." While the external air might have a temperature of — 30", the glacier indicated + 20 , yielding an... | |
 | George Frederick Wright - 1889 - 704 pagina’s
...The atmosphere favored me : the blue tops of Washington Land [to the north] were in full view, and, losing itself in a dark water-cloud, the noble head-land...broken plain with a general inclination of some nine degree's, still diminishing toward the foreground. Crevasses, in the distance mere wrinkles, expanded... | |
 | George Frederick Wright, Warren Upham - 1889 - 662 pagina’s
...The atmosphere favored me : the blue tops of Washington Land [to the north] were in full view, and, losing itself in a dark water-cloud, the noble head-land...toward the sea it represented a broken plain with u general inclination of some nine degrees, still diminishing toward the foreground. Crevasses, in... | |
 | 1890 - 746 pagina’s
...impossible to look at it, he says, without seeing that it is not a mass at rest, but a mass in motion. "Repose was not the characteristic of this seemingly...solid mass : every feature indicated activity, energy, movement."1 Its surface seemed to follow that of the basis country over which it flowed. It was undulatory... | |
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From one of these rugged islets, the nearest to the glacier which could be approached with anything like safety, I could see another island, larger and closer in shore, already half covered by the encroaching face of the glacier, and great masses of ice... 