 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1873 - 378 pagina’s
...side, including the length we were carried by the current, was computed by those on board the frigate at upwards of four English miles, though the actual...breadth is barely one. The rapidity of the current is buch that no boat can row directly across, and it may, in some measure, be estimated from the circumstance... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1881 - 800 pagina’s
...be estimated from the drc-onuxancc of the whole distance bcinj; accomplished by one of the pr,jtie* fnun the •elting of the^mountnm snows. About three weeks ttcforc, in April, we had made an attempt... | |
 | Horace - 1881 - 820 pagina’s
...hour and live minutef), and the other in an hour and ten minutes, and calculated that ther had swum upwards of four English miles, "though the actual breadth is barely one." " The water was extremely cold, from the melting of the mountain snows." According to this account, which... | |
 | Alexander Tolmer - 1882 - 366 pagina’s
...side, including the length we were carried by the current, was computed by those on board the frigate at upwards of four English miles, though the actual...accomplished by one of the parties in an hour and five minutes, and by the other in an hour and ten minutes. The water was extremely cold, from the melting... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1891 - 752 pagina’s
...breadth is barely uue. The rapidity of the current is such that no boat cau row directly •cross: lorn,1 Who hold the thought of death in scorn, And...Or pave the path with many a corse, O'er which (h aud five, and by the other in an hour und ten minutes. The water was extremely cold, frum the melting... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1907 - 1376 pagina’s
...side, including the length we were carried by the current, was computed by those on board the frigate a upwards of four English miles, though the actual breadth is barely one. The rapidity ef the current is such that no boat can row directly across, and it may, in some measure, \x estimated... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1924 - 372 pagina’s
...side, including the length we were carried by the current, was computed by those on board the frigate at upwards of four English miles, though the actual...accomplished by one of the parties in an hour and live, and by the other in an hour and ten minutes. The water was extremely cold, from the melting of... | |
 | Richard Halliburton - 1927 - 422 pagina’s
...roughly by our companions at upward of four English miles, though the actual breadth is less than two. The rapidity of the current is such that no boat can row directly across. Its rate of flow may be estimated by the fact that the whole distance was accomplished in one hour... | |
 | Matthew Iley, J. M. Millingen - 1825 - 448 pagina’s
...side, including the length we were carried by the current, was computed by those on board the frigate at upwards of four English miles, though the actual...the whole distance being accomplished by one of the party in an hour and five minutes, and by the other in an hour and ten minutes. The water was extremely... | |
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The whole distance, from the place whence we started to our landing on the other side, including the length we were carried by the current, was computed by those on board the frigate at upwards of four English miles ; though the actual breadth is barely... 
