 | 1847 - 610 sider
...for being much higher than our mast's head, we could nol see anything except the summit of a lofly range of mountains, extending to the southward as...far as the 79th degree of latitude. These mountains, being the southernmost land hitherto discovered, I felt great satisfaction in naming after Captain... | |
 | Sir James Clark Ross - 1847 - 470 sider
...beyond it we could not imagine ; for being much higher than our mast-head, we could not see any thing except the summit of a lofty range of mountains extending to the southward as far as the seventy-ninth degree of latitude. These mountains, being the southernmost land hitherto discovered,... | |
 | 1847 - 640 sider
...beyond it we could not imagine ; for being much higher than our mast's head, we could not see anything except the summit of a lofty range of mountains, extending to the southward as far as the 7!)th degree of latitude. These mountains, being the southernmost land hitherto discovered, I felt... | |
 | John Stilwell Jenkins - 1853 - 534 sider
...only be guessed at, for the ice being much higher than the mast-heads, they could not see anything except the summit of a lofty range of mountains, extending to the southward as far as the seventyninth degree of latitude, and to which the name of the Parry Mountains was given. If the coast... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1917 - 688 sider
...beyond it we could not imagine ; for being much higher than our mast-head, we could not see anything except the summit of a lofty range of mountains extending to the southward as far as the seventy-ninth degree of latitude. . . . ' It was an obstruction of such a character as to leave no... | |
 | Charles Tomlinson - 1872 - 392 sider
...cliffs. No vegetation was discovered, not even a lichen or piece of sea-weed ; so that, as Captain Koss observes, the vegetable kingdom has no representative...eastward. The whole coast from the western extreme point presented a uniform vertical cliff of ice about two or three hundred feet high. The eastern cape at... | |
 | Josiah Dwight Whitney - 1882 - 450 sider
...beyond it we could not imagine ; for being much higher than our mast-head, we could not see anything except the summit of a lofty range of mountains extending to the southward as far as the seventy-ninth degree of latitude. These mountains, being the southernmost land hitherto discovered,... | |
 | George Frederick Wright - 1889 - 704 sider
...beyond it we could not imagine ; for, being much higher than our mast-head, we could not see anything except the summit of a lofty range of mountains extending to the southward as far as the seventy-ninth degree of latitude. These mountains, being the southernmost land hitherto discovered,... | |
 | George Frederick Wright - 1892 - 438 sider
...beyond it we could not imagine ; for, being much higher than our mast-head, we could not see anything except the summit of a lofty range of mountains extending to the southward as far as the seventyninth degree of latitude. These mountains, being the southernmost land hitherto discovered,... | |
 | George Barnett Smith - 1900 - 276 sider
...Beaufort Island, after Captain Francis Beaufort, hydrographer to the Admiralty. Next came into view a lofty range of mountains extending to the southward as far as the seventy-ninth degree of latitude, which Ross felt great satisfaction in naming after Captain Sir William... | |
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... feet above the level of the sea, perfectly flat and level at the top, and without any fissures or promontories on its even seaward face. What was beyond it we could not imagine ; for, being much higher than our mast-head, we could not see anything... 
