Voyages of discovery in the Arctic and Antarctic seas, and round the world. To which are added an autobiography [&c.]., Volume 11884 |
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Overige edities - Alles bekijken
Voyages of Discovery in the Arctic and Antarctic Seas, and Round the World ... Dr Robert McCormick Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2015 |
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Voyages of Discovery in the Arctic and Antarctic Seas, and Round the World ... Robert McCormick Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2018 |
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
albatross amongst anchor Antarctic Antarctic Circle appeared ascended barrier basalt beach birds blue blue petrel boat breakfast breeze Cape Cape François Cape petrel Captain Ross chionis colour cove crossed Cumberland Bay dark deck dined distance eggs eight p.m. eleven a.m. Erebus excursion fathoms feet five p.m. forming four p.m. Friday gale grass greenstone Gregson gulls Harbour heavy hills Hobart Town horizon island land large berg latitude Lieutenant light longitude Martin's Cove miles Monday morning Mount Erebus mountain native night nine a.m. noon pack passed peak penguin phonolite piece of ice pole Possession Island reached returned on board ridge river rocks round sail Salvador Bay Saturday ship shore shot side Simon's Town six p.m. snow specimens Spitzbergen summit Swan Bay teal Terror thermometer three p.m. Thursday to-day trees Tuesday valley Vincent Brooks weather Wednesday whilst white petrel wind windward wood
Populaire passages
Pagina 38 - THE GENTLE SHEPHERD OF SALISBURY PLAIN. FARMER PECK'S. Multum in parvo ! pro bono publico ! Entertainment for man or beast, all of a row ; Lekker kost, as much as you please ; Excellent beds, without any fleas. Nos patriam fugimus ! now we are here, Vivamus ! let us live by selling beer. On donne a boire et a manger ici ; Come in and try it, whoever you be.
Pagina 162 - As we made a nearer approach, however, this apparent snow drift resolved itself into a dense column of black smoke, intermingled with flashes of red flame emerging from a magnificent volcanic vent, so near the South Pole, and in the very centre of a mighty mountain range encased in eternal ice and snow. The peak itself, which rises to an altitude of 12,400 feet above the level of the sea, is situated in the latitude of 77° 31' South and in longitude 167° 1' E., and was named after our ship, 'Mount...
Pagina 162 - At 10 am, upon going on deck, my attention was arrested by what appeared to be a fine snowdrift, driving from the summit of a lofty crater-shaped peak.
Pagina 184 - ... in the eccentricity of the earth's orbit, and the precession of the equinoxes. Mr.
Pagina 150 - ... projecting headland against a strong current setting us into the bight amid a great ice-ripple, so that we were obliged to bear up and run through an opening in the ice to leeward, a perfect race, so rapid that had the water been shallow enough to ground the boat, she would have been upset instantly. The margin or ice-foot on which we at last effected a landing took us upon a nearly level surface, a guano-bed in fact, formed by a colony of penguins for ages past. It had attained such a depth...
Pagina 150 - It would afford valuable cargoes of guano for whole fleets of ships for years to come, could they only penetrate the vast packs of ice we have just forced our way through at such risk, and which constitute an impassable barrier to ships as they are ordinarily constructed. "The penguins indeed, with their young all covered with down, formed such a rookery here, that the whole place and sea around seemed alive with them. In such countless myriads were they congregated, not only over the incubation...
Pagina 129 - Our future for the next few months is so exceptionally novel, so full of interest, so promising in the prospective of great discoveries in a region of our globe fresh and new as it was at creation's first dawn, and to the more sanguine and enthusiastic there is the possibility at least of unfurling our flag at the ice-girt Pole itself.
Pagina 186 - ... 55.9 seconds shorter than a mean solar day. It revolves around the sun in one sidereal year, which is 365 days, 6 hours, 9 minutes, and 9 seconds. Its orbit or path around the sun is an ellipse, having the sun in one of the foci. The earth's mean distance from the sun is 93,000,ooo miles. Its axis is inclined to the plane of its orbit at an angle of 23° 27
Pagina 249 - At 3.30 pm Captain Ross and the gentlemen from the midshipmen's berth dined in the gun-room, and although surrounded by ice, and having been some time at sea, we managed to provide a very fair dinner on the occasion, roast goose and plenty of fresh meat.
Pagina 163 - S., and in longitude 167 1' E., and was named after our ship, Mount Erebus. Adjacent to it, and only separated by a saddle of ice-clad land on its east, arose a sister mountain to the height of 10,900 feet, but now extinct.... It received the name of Mount Terror.