A journal of a voyage of discovery to the Arctic regions, in His Majesty's ships Hecla and Griper, in the years 1819 & 1820Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme&Brown, 1821 - 320 pagina's |
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
afternoon amongst animal appeared Aurora Borealis azimuths beach boat breadth breeze of wind chronometer circumstance clear coast colour compass considerable course covered with snow days past direction distance Ditto doubt eastward eight Esquimaux fathoms favourable feet floe forenoon four Friday glaucous gulls Greenland Griper ground Hecla Height of Barometer hills hundred Inches inlet island ivory gulls land Latitude at Noon length Longitude at Noon longitude by chronometer Majesty's ship Melville Island mentioned meridian altitude miles Monday musk-ox Narwhal northward o'clock this morning observed party passed Peterel piece of ice Possession Bay ptarmigans Range and Mean reason remarked sail seen to-day ship's head ships shore side six o'clock southward and westward specific gravity stones supposed surface temperature thermometer thick thing Thursday tide tion voyage weather Wednesday whales whilst Winter Harbour yards yesterday