 | 1822 - 932 páginas
...of pure ice. At this news, we all went, provided with shovels and crows, to examine this phenomenon more closely, and soon arrived at a place where the...purest ice, of the height of a hundred feet, which arc under a cover of moss and grass ; and could not have been produced, but by some terrible revolution.... | |
 | Otto von Kotzebue - 1821 - 400 páginas
...shovels and crows, to examine this phenomenon more closely, and soon arrived at a place where the back rises almost perpendicularly out of the sea, to the...We saw masses of the purest ice, of the height of an hundred feet, which are under a cover of moss and grass ; and could not have been produced, but... | |
 | 1822 - 880 páginas
...of pure ice. At this news, we all went, provided with shovels and crflws, to examine this phenomenon more closely, and soon arrived at a place where the...rising still higher. We saw masses of the purest ice, ot the height of a hundred feet, which are under a cover of moss and grass ; and could not have been... | |
 | 1822 - 582 páginas
...shovels and crows, to examine this phenomenon more closely ; and soon arrived at a place, where the back rises almost perpendicularly out of the sea, to the height of a hundred feet ; and then runs oft', rising still higher. We saw masses of the purest ice of the height of a hundred feet, which are... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 426 páginas
...arrived at a place where the back rises almost perpendicularly out of the sea, to the height of 100 feet; and then runs off, rising still higher. We saw masses of the purest ice of the height of 100 feet, which are under a cover of moss and grass ; and could not have been produced but by some... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1886 - 828 páginas
...closely, and soon arrived at a place where the back rises almost perpendicularly out of the sea to a height of a hundred feet; and then runs off, rising...which are under a cover of moss and grass, and could nc^t have been produced but by some terrible revolution." The place, which by some accident had fallen... | |
 | James Geikie - 1894 - 944 páginas
...well-known ice-cliffs which Kotzebue discovered so long ago as 1810. He describes them as consisting of ' masses of the purest ice, of the height of a hundred...feet, which are under a cover of moss and grass.' He adds : ' An indisputable proof that what we saw was real ice is the quantity of mammoths' teeth... | |
 | Bering Sea Tribunal of Arbitration - 1895 - 518 páginas
...arrived at a place where the back rises almost perpendicularly out of the sea to the height of 100 feet, and then runs off, rising still higher. We saw masses of the purest ice of the height of 100 feet, which are under a cover of moss and grass, and could not have been produced but by some terrible... | |
 | Bering Sea Tribunal of Arbitration - 1895 - 532 páginas
...where the back rises almost perpendicularly out of the sea to the height of 100 feet, and then ruus off, rising still higher. We saw masses of the purest ice of the height of 100 feet, which are under a cover of moss and grass, and could not have been produced but by some terrible... | |
 | Adolphus Washington Greely - 1909 - 352 páginas
...have given rise to various differing opinions. Their discoverer, Kotzebue, describes the ice-cliffs as Masses of the purest ice, of the height of a hundred feet, which are under a cover of moss and grass. . . . The covering of these mountains, on which the most luxuriant grass grows, is only half a foot... | |
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... rises almost perpendicularly out of the sea to the height of a hundred feet, and then runs off, rising still higher : we saw masses of the purest ice, of the height of a hundred feet, which are under a cover of moss and grass, and could not have been... 
