 | 1843 - 586 pages
...wave, and found it ninety-six feet. ' On another occasion we were viewing the same glacier, and hud approached tolerably near when a similar avalanche...remarkably fine day, when the quietness of the bay wus first interrupted by the noise of the fulling body. Lieutenant Franklin and myself bad approached... | |
 | Arminianism - 1857 - 1196 pages
...an eye-witness of the avalanche : — " This occurred on a remarkably fine day, when the stillness of the bay was first interrupted by the noise of the falling body. We had approached one of these stupendous walls of ice, and were endeavouring to search into the innermost... | |
 | Samuel Mosheim Smucker - Arctic regions - 1857 - 1074 pages
...occurred to few, though it is generally understood that such monsters can only be generated on shore. . " This occurred on a remarkably fine day, when the quietness...approached one of these stupendous walls of ice, and were endeavoring to search into the innermost recess of a deep cavern that was near the foot of the glacier,... | |
 | 1857 - 920 pages
...by an eye-witness of the avalanche. " ' This occurred on a remarkably fine day, when the stillness of the bay was first interrupted by the noise of the falling body. We had approached one of these stupendous walls of ice, and were endeavouring to search into the innermost... | |
 | Edward Parry (bp. of Dover) - Arctic regions - 1857 - 398 pages
...described by an eye-witness of the avalanche. " This occurred on a remarkably fine day, when the stillness of the bay was first interrupted by the noise of the falling body. We had approached one of these stupendous walls of ice, and were endeavouring to search into the innermost... | |
 | Edward Parry (bp. of Dover) - Arctic regions - 1857 - 428 pages
...described by an eye-witness of the avalanche. " This occurred on a remarkably fine day, when the stillness of the bay was first interrupted by the noise of the falling body. We had approached one of these stupendous walls of ice, and were endeavouring to search into the innermost... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - American essays - 1857 - 584 pages
...described by an eye-witness of the avalanche : "This occurred on a remarkably fine day, when the stillness of the bay was first Interrupted by the noise of the falling body. We had approached one of these stupendous walls of ice, and were endeavoring to search into the innermost... | |
 | Zachariah Atwell Mudge - Arctic regions - 1875 - 316 pages
...time Beechey and his companions were treated to a still grander sight : " This occurred," he says, "on a remarkably fine day, when the quietness of the bay was first interrupted by the falling body. Lieutenant Franklin and myself had approached one of these stupendous walls of ice, and... | |
 | Deltus Malin Edwards - Arctic regions - 1910 - 550 pages
...the wave and found it to be ninety-six feet." Some days afterwards a second avalanche took place. " This occurred on a remarkably fine day, when the quietness...approached one of these stupendous walls of ice and were endeavoring to search into the innermost recess of a deep cavern that was near the foot of the glacier,... | |
 | Deltus Malin Edwards - Arctic regions - 1910 - 524 pages
...the wave and found it to be ninety-six feet." Some days afterwards a second avalanche took place. " This occurred on a remarkably fine day, when the quietness...approached one of these stupendous walls of ice and were endeavoring to search into the innermost recess of a deep cavern that was near the foot of the glacier,... | |
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This occurred on a remarkably fine day, when the quietness of the bay was first interrupted by the noise of the falling body. Lieutenant Franklin and myself had approached one of these stupendous walls of ice and were endeavoring to search into the innermost... 