| Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) - Geography - 1838 - 666 pages
...Greenland, they left it to larboard, and continued sailing two days, when they saw another land which was flat, and overgrown with wood. From thence they stood out to sea, and sailed three days with a SW wind, when they saw a third land, which was high and mountainous and covered with icebergs (glaciers)... | |
| Carl Christian Rafn - America - 1838 - 74 pages
...left it on the larboard hand, and continued sailing two days, when they saw another land which was flat, and overgrown with wood. From thence they stood out to sea, and sailed three days with a SW wind, when they saw a third land, which was high and mountainous, and covered with icebergs (glaciers... | |
| James Freeman Clarke, William Henry Channing, James Handasyd Perkins - Unitarianism - 1838 - 370 pages
...leaving this country on the larboard continued sailing for two days, when they saw another land which was flat and overgrown with wood. From thence they stood out to sea, and after sailing three days with a SW wind, discovered a third land, which was high and mountainous and... | |
| Carl Christian Rafn - America - 1841 - 342 pages
...left it on the larboard hand, and continued sailing two days, when they sawTtnother land which was flat, and overgrown with wood. From thence they stood out to sea, and sailcd three days with a SW wind, when they saw a third land, which was high and mountainous, and covered... | |
| John Frost - United States - 1844 - 494 pages
...they left it to larboard, and continued sailing for two days, when they saw another land, which was flat and overgrown with wood. From thence they stood...Greenland. Such is the tradition of Biarne's voyage in 986. He appears to have been carried by a north-east wind and currents far to the south till he struck the... | |
| Jeremy Belknap - America - 1846 - 384 pages
...left it on the larboard hand, and continued sailing two days, when they saw another land which was flat and overgrown with wood. From thence they stood out to sea, and sailed three days with a SW wind, when they saw a third land which was high and mountainous, and covered with icebergs (glaciers)... | |
| John Frost - 1851 - 1058 pages
...they left it to larboard, and continued sailing for two days, when they saw another land, which was flat and overgrown with wood. From thence they stood...Greenland. Such is the tradition of Biarne's voyage in 986. He appears to have been carried by a north-east wind and currents far to the south till lie struck... | |
| William Charles St. John - Newfoundland - 1855 - 84 pages
...Greenland, they left it to larboard, and continued sailing two days, when they saw another land which was flat, and overgrown with wood. From thence they stood out to sea, and sailed three days with a SW wind, when they saw a third land, which was high and mountainous and covered with icebergs (glaciers)... | |
| Charles Francis Horne, Rossiter Johnson - Great events by famous historians - 1905 - 428 pages
...left it on the larboard hand, and continued sailing two days, when they saw another land, which was flat and overgrown with wood. From thence they stood...land, which was high and mountainous and covered with icebergs (glaciers). They coasted along the shore and saw that it was an island. They did not go on... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1838 - 596 pages
...they left it to larboard, and continued sailing for two days, when they saw another land, which was flat and overgrown with wood. From thence they stood...Coasting along its shore, they discovered that it was on island. They bore away from it without landing, and after four days' sailing with fresh gales, reached... | |
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