| William Fordyce Mavor - Discoveries in geography - 1802 - 376 pages
...height. 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,...packed together ; so that it was not possible for any thing to enter it. This was about a mile broad ; within which was solid ice in one continued, compact... | |
| William Fordyce Mavor - 1809 - 432 pages
...field, besides those on the outside; many of them very large, and looking like a ridge of rnoun tains, rising one above another till they were lost in the...Northern edge of this immense field, was composed oi" loose or broken ice close packed together; so. that it was not possible for any thing to enter... | |
| John Campbell - Admirals - 1813 - 546 pages
...islands were counted within the field, beside those on the outside ; many of them were large, and looked like a ridge of mountains, rising one above another...close packed together; so that it was not possible for any thing to enter it. Captain Cook, however, is of opinion, that there must be land to the south behind... | |
| Edward Polehampton - 1815 - 628 pages
...Ninety, seven ice islands were distinctly seen within the field, beside those on the outside ; many of them very large, and looking like a ridge of mountains,...close packed together, so that it was not possible for any thing to enter it. Such mountains of ice as these, Captain Cook believed were never seen in the... | |
| Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 588 pages
...Ninety. seven ice islands were distinctly seen within the field, beside those on the outside . many of them very large, and looking like a ridge of mountains,...packed together, so that it •was not possible for any thing to enter it. Such mountains of ice as these, Captain Cook believed were never seen in the... | |
| Robert Kerr - 1815 - 546 pages
...height. Ninetyseven 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,...close packed together, so that it was not possible for any thing to enter it. This was about a mile broad, within which, was solid ice in one continued compact... | |
| Voyages and travels - 1815 - 476 pages
...Ninety-seven ice-islands were distinctly seen within the field, besides those on the outside; many qf them very large, and looking like a ridge of moun.tains,...close packed together, so that it was not possible for any thing to enter it. Such mountains of ice as these, captain Cook believes, never were seen in the... | |
| Robert Kerr - Voyages and travels - 1815 - 542 pages
...hills were distinctly seen within the field, besides those on the outside ; many of them very largej and looking like a ridge of mountains, rising one...close packed together, so that it was not possible for any thing to enter it. This was about a mile broad, within which, was solid ice in one continued compact... | |
| General history - 1815 - 802 pages
...were distinctly seen within the field, besides those on the outside ; many of them very large, nnd looking like a ridge of mountains, rising one above...close packed together, so that it was not possible for any thing to enter it. This was about a mile broad, within which, was solid ice in one continued compact... | |
| Edward Polehampton - Natural history - 1821 - 592 pages
...height. Ninetyseven ice-islands were distinctly seen within the field, beside those on the outside ; many of them very large, and looking like a ridge of mountains,...they were lost in the clouds. The outer, or northern iedge, of this immense field, was composed of loose or broken ice close packed together, so that it... | |
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