 | Charles Wilkes - 1849 - Liczba stron: 702
...ice-islands, with the land in sight. The land had the same lofty appearance as before. We stood in until 8 PM, when we were within two and a half miles of the...much weather-beaten. We tried for soundings, but did not.get any with one hundred and fifty fathoms, although the water was much discolored. The badness... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - 1851 - Liczba stron: 614
...These strata varied from one to thirty feet in thickness, and near the mouth of the fork the cliffs were from one hundred and fifty to two hundred feet in height, with lofty peaks of the more indurated portions of the rock towering toward the sky in a wild and picturesque... | |
 | Howard Stansbury - 1852 - Liczba stron: 626
...These strata varied from one to thirty feet in thickness, and near the mouth of the fork the cliffs were from one hundred and fifty to two hundred feet in height, with lofty peaks of the more indurated portions of the rock towering toward the sky hi a wild and picturesque... | |
 | E. E. Hale - 1882 - Liczba stron: 310
...islands with the land in sight. The land had the same lofty appearance as before. We stood in until three PM, when we were within two and a half miles of the...hundred and fifty fathoms, although the water was much' discolored. The badness of the deep sea-line was a great annoyance to us, for deeper soundings would... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1883 - Liczba stron: 308
...the land in sight. The land had the same lofty appearance as before. We stood in until three p. M., when we were within two and a half miles of the icy...hundred and fifty fathoms, although the water was much discolored. The badness of the deep sea-line was a great annoyance to us, for deeper soundings would... | |
 | Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) - 1901 - Liczba stron: 612
...a-half miles of the icy cliffs by which the land was bounded on all sides. These were from 150 to 200 feet in height, quite perpendicular, and there was...weatherbeaten. We tried for soundings, but did not get any with 150 fathoms, although the water was much discoloured. The badness of the deepsea line was a great annoyance... | |
 | Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) - 1901 - Liczba stron: 616
...a-half miles of the icy cliffs by which the land was bounded on all sides. These were from 150 to 200 feet in height, quite perpendicular, and there was...weatherbeaten. We tried for soundings, but did not get any with 150 fathoms, although the water was much discoloured. The badness of the deepsea line was a great annoyance... | |
 | University of Adelaide - 1923 - Liczba stron: 824
...before." In longitude 137 deg- 02 min. E., latitude 66 deg. 12 min. S., they were only 2£ miles from " icy cliffs, by which the land was bounded on all sides....whatever of rocks ; all was covered with ice and snow." A sounding with 150 fathoms of line failed to reach Iwittom. " No break in the icy barrier. where a foot... | |
 | Joseph Bucklin Bishop - 1925 - Liczba stron: 260
...the Culebra Cut, looking at the banks on either side, which had been seven years in the making and were from one hundred and fifty to two hundred feet in height above the bottom of the Canal : "It is extraordinary, Colonel, that nature should have given these... | |
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PM, when we were within two and a half miles of the icy cliffs by which the land was bounded on all sides. These were from one hundred and fifty to two hundred feet in height, quite perpendicular, and there was no appearance whatever of rocks ; all was... 
