Gallery of Nature and Art, Or a Tour Through Creation and Science: Illustrated with 100 Plates, Band 4R. Wilks, 1815 |
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... horizon was illuminated by the rays of light reflected from the ice , to a considerable height . Ninety- seven ice islands were distinctly seen within the field , beside those on the outside ; many of them very large , and looking like ...
... horizon was illuminated by the rays of light reflected from the ice , to a considerable height . Ninety- seven ice islands were distinctly seen within the field , beside those on the outside ; many of them very large , and looking like ...
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... horizon was so short that a clear twilight continued all the time of his disappear . ing . In the first attempt to penetrate southward , Captain Cook was one hundred and seventeen days without a sight of land , and in his second , he ...
... horizon was so short that a clear twilight continued all the time of his disappear . ing . In the first attempt to penetrate southward , Captain Cook was one hundred and seventeen days without a sight of land , and in his second , he ...
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... horizon , then ice was sure to be met with : notwithstanding which , the ice itself is not entirely white , but often tinged , especially near the surface of the sea , with a most beautiful sapphirine , or rather berylline blue , evi ...
... horizon , then ice was sure to be met with : notwithstanding which , the ice itself is not entirely white , but often tinged , especially near the surface of the sea , with a most beautiful sapphirine , or rather berylline blue , evi ...
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... horizon . They also saw , stretching to the south - east , what is laid down in the Dutch charts to be islands . The weather was exceedingly fine , mild and clear . Mr. Israel Lyons , a very distinguished botanist and astronomer , who ...
... horizon . They also saw , stretching to the south - east , what is laid down in the Dutch charts to be islands . The weather was exceedingly fine , mild and clear . Mr. Israel Lyons , a very distinguished botanist and astronomer , who ...
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... horizon , In la . latitude 66 ° 54 ′ 39 ′′ north , longitude 0 deg . 58 ′ 45 ′′ west . titude 67 ° 35 ′ Captain Phipps sounded with a very heavy lead the depth of seven hundred and eighty fathoms without getting ground ; and by a ...
... horizon , In la . latitude 66 ° 54 ′ 39 ′′ north , longitude 0 deg . 58 ′ 45 ′′ west . titude 67 ° 35 ′ Captain Phipps sounded with a very heavy lead the depth of seven hundred and eighty fathoms without getting ground ; and by a ...
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Seite 508 - Olympian games or Pythian fields ; 530 Part curb their fiery steeds, or shun the goal With rapid wheels, or fronted brigades form. As when to warn proud cities, war appears Waged in the troubled sky, and armies rush To battle in the clouds, before each van Prick forth the airy knights, and couch their spears Till thickest legions close ; with feats of arms From either end of Heaven the welkin burns.
Seite 90 - Ninety-seven ice hills were distinctly seen within the field, besides those on the outside; many of them very large, and looking like a ridge of mountains, rising one above another till they were lost in the clouds.
Seite 255 - It was in vain to think of flying ; the swiftest horse, or fastest sailing ship could be of no use to carry us out of this danger; and the full persuasion of this rivetted me as if to the spot where I stood, and let the camels gain on me so much in my state of lameness, that it was with some difficulty I could overtake them.
Seite 255 - ... majestic slowness ; at intervals we thought they were coming in a very few minutes to overwhelm us ; and small quantities of sand did actually more than once reach us. Again they would retreat so as to be almost out of sight, their tops reaching to the very clouds...
Seite 92 - The wild rocks raised their lofty summits till they were lost in the clouds, and the valleys lay covered with everlasting snow. Not a tree was to be seen, nor a shrub even big enough to make a toothpick.
Seite 305 - This kite is to be raised when a thunder-gust appears to be coming on, and the person who holds the string must stand within a door or window, or under some cover, so that the silk ribbon may not be wet ; and care must be taken that the twine does not touch the frame of the door or window.
Seite 93 - ... a country doomed by nature never once to feel the warmth of the sun's rays, but to lie buried in everlasting snow and ice.
Seite 509 - Placed far amid the melancholy main, (Whether it be lone Fancy him beguiles ; Or that aerial beings sometimes deign To stand embodied, to our senses plain), Sees on the naked hill, or valley low, The whilst in ocean Phoebus dips his wain, A vast assembly moving to and fro : Then all at once in air dissolves the wondrous show.
Seite 255 - We were here at once surprised and terrified by a sight surely one of the most magnificent in the world. In that vast expanse of desert, from W. and to NW of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand at different distances, at times moving with great celerity, at others stalking on with a majestic slowness; at intervals we thought they were coming in a very few minutes to overwhelm us; and small quantities of sand...
Seite 306 - And when the rain has wet the. kite and twine, so that it can conduct the electric fire freely, you will find it stream out plentifully from the key on the approach of your knuckle.