 | 1879 - 624 pagina’s
...the Princess Victoria. " This, then," says Back, "maybe considered as the mouth of the Thlew-ee-choh, which, after a violent and tortuous course of 530...embarrassing to the navigator, and broken into falls and rapids to the number of no less than eighty-three in tho whole, pours its waters into the Polar... | |
 | Richard Perry - 1882 - 856 pagina’s
...estuary of the river. " This, then," says he, " may be considered as the mouth of the Thlew-ee-Choh, which, after a violent and tortuous course of 530...tree on the whole line of its banks, expanding into five large lakes, with clear horizon, most embarrassing to the navigator, and broken into falls, cascades... | |
 | Richard Perry - 1883 - 866 pagina’s
...estuary of the river. " This, then," says he, " may be considered as the mouth of the Thlew-ec-Choh, which, after a violent and tortuous course of 530...tree on the whole line of its banks, expanding into five large lakes with clear horizon, most embarrassing to the navigator, and broken into falls, cascades... | |
 | William Henry Giles Kingston - 1884 - 290 pagina’s
...the lower extremity of Bathurst Islet. It runs rapidly in a tortuous course of 530 geographical miles through an iron-ribbed country, without a single tree on the whole line of its banks, expanding here and there into five large lakes, and broken by thirty-three falls, cascades, and rapids ere it... | |
 | Samuel Mosheim Smucker - 1886 - 682 pagina’s
...Princess Victoria. " This, then," observes Back, " may be considered as the mouth of the Thlew-ee-choh, which after a violent and tortuous course of 530 geographical...tree on the whole line of its banks, expanding into five large lakes, with clear horizon, most embarrassing to the navigator, and broken into falls, cascades,... | |
 | William John Gordon - 1907 - 464 pagina’s
...THE GREAT FISH RIVER 161 For five hundred and thirty geographical miles the river was found to run through an iron-ribbed country without a single tree...rapids, to the number of no less than eighty-three, pouring its waters into the Polar Sea in latitude 67° 11' and longitude 94° 30'; so that his explorations... | |
 | Helen Saunders Wright - 1910 - 622 pagina’s
...violent and tortuous course of five hundred and thirty geographical miles, running through an iron ribbed country, without a single tree on the whole line of its banks, expanding into five large lakes, with clear horizon most embarrassing to the navigator, and broken into falls, cascades,... | |
 | David C. Woodman - 1992 - 412 pagina’s
...days of unremitting labour to accomplish the "violent and tortuous course of five hundred and thirty geographical miles, running through an iron-ribbed...cascades, and rapids, to the number of no less than eighty three."9 Back encountered a large band of friendly Inuit encamped at Lake Franklin, a short... | |
 | Jeannette Mirsky - 1970 - 400 pagina’s
...irresistible whirlpools." " Success was theirs when they "arrived at the mouth of the Thlewee-choh-desseth, which, after a violent and tortuous course of 530...iron-ribbed country without a single tree on the whole of its banks, expanding into fine, large lakes with clear horizons most embarrassing to the navigator,... | |
 | Fergus Fleming - 2001 - 542 pagina’s
...and tempestuous course of five hundred and thirty geographical miles, running through an iron ribbed country without a single tree on the whole line of its banks'. 5 By this time Back was no longer trying to rescue Ross, news of whose safe arrival home had been despatched... | |
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may be considered as the mouth of the Thlew-ee-choh, which after a violent and tortuous course of 530 geographical miles, running through an iron-ribbed country, without a single tree on the whole line of its banks... 
