 Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place in the progress of their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them, than the accumulated...  The Eclectic Review - Pagina 372geredigeerd door - 1829Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1845 - 352 pagina’s
...them than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We learn that while some of them draw the line or strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others...pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil." The first whaling expedition of the people of Nantucket took place within twenty or thirty years of... | |
 | Peter Burke - 1845 - 490 pagina’s
...restingplace in the progress of their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them, than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run •the... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1845 - 494 pagina’s
...resting-place in the progress of their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them, than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude... | |
 | 1846 - 594 pagina’s
...resting-place in the progress of their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of both the poles....strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run down the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin North - 1846 - 454 pagina’s
...place, in the progress || of their || victorious Industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them, than the accumulated winter || of both the poles. We know || that whilst some of them draw the line, || and strike the harpoon, / on the coast of Africa, others run... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell - 1847 - 372 pagina’s
...them beneath the Arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold. We know that while some of them draw the line and...longitude and pursue their gigantic game along the coasts of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries, no climate that is not witness to their... | |
 | 1848 - 580 pagina’s
...resting-place in the progress of their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of both the poles....longitude and pursue their gigantic game along the coasts of Brazil. No sea but is vexed by their fisheries ; no climate that is not witness to their... | |
 | Elias Lyman Magoon - 1848 - 498 pagina’s
...resting-place in the progress of their victorious industry.* Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of both the poles....longitude and pursue their gigantic game along the coasts of Brazil. No sea but is vexed by their fisheries ; no climate that is not witness to their... | |
 | 1848 - 616 pagina’s
...resting-place in the progress of their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of both the poles....draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Afinca, others run the longitude and pursue their gigantic game along the coasts of Brazil. No sea... | |
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