 | Yorkshire Geological Society - 1849 - 588 pagina’s
...woods into the narrow channel below. In many parts magnificent glaciers extended from the mountain side to the water's edge. It is scarcely possible to imagine...anything more beautiful than the beryl-like blue of the glacier, and especially when contrasted with the dead white of an expanse of snow. As fragments... | |
 | Philip Henry Gosse - 1861 - 446 pagina’s
...cascades are pouring their foaming waters through the woods into the Channel below. In some places magnificent glaciers extend from the mountain-side...these glaciers, and especially as contrasted with the dead-white of the upper expanse of snow." Heavy and sudden squalls come down from the ravines, raising... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1873 - 552 pagina’s
...glaciers extend from the mountain side to the water's edge. It is scarcely possible to imagine any thing more beautiful than the beryl-like blue of these glaciers,...away, and the channel with its icebergs presented, for thespace ofa mile, a miniature likeness of the Polar Sea. The boats being hauled on shore at our dinner-hour,... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1876 - 586 pagina’s
...glaciers extend from the mountain side H the water's edge. It is scarcely possible to imagine any thing more beautiful than the beryl-like blue of these glaciers,...snow. The fragments which had fallen from the glacier iuio the water, were floating away, and the channel witli its icebergs presented, for the space of... | |
 | Charles Darwin, R. T. Pritchett - 1890 - 606 pagina’s
...woods, into the narrow channel below. In many parts, magnificent glaciers extend from the mountain side to the water's edge. It is scarcely possible to imagine...these glaciers, and especially as contrasted with the dcad white of the upper expanse of snow. The fragments which had fallen from the glacier into the water... | |
 | 1897 - 942 pagina’s
...woods, into the narrow channel below. In many parts, imgnificent glaciers extend from the mountain side to the water's edge. It is scarcely possible to imagine anything more • " Voyage of the Beagle " (el 1890), p. 237. beautiful than the beryl-like blue of these glaciers,... | |
 | Isaiah Bowman - 1915 - 408 pagina’s
...woods, into the narrow channel below. In many parts, magnificent glaciers extend from the mountain side to the water's edge. It is scarcely possible to imagine...into the water were floating away, and the channel (Beagle Channel) with its icebergs presented, for the space of a mile, a miniature likeness of the... | |
 | Isaiah Bowman - 1915 - 408 pagina’s
...woods, into the narrow channel below. In many parts, magnificent glaciers extend from the mountain side to the water's edge. It is scarcely possible to imagine...into the water were floating away, and the channel (Beagle Channel) with its icebergs presented, for the space of a mile, a miniature likeness of the... | |
 | Bernadette Hince - 2000 - 416 pagina’s
...2nd edn lohn Murray. London: 225. In many parts. magnificent glaciers extend from the mountain side to the water's edge. It is scarcely possible to imagine...with the dead white of the upper expanse of snow. 1852 Eights. lames in Transactions of the Albany Institute 2: 334. This beautiful crustacean Isc. Glyptonotus... | |
 | Ben Pester - 2004 - 304 pagina’s
...provisions or firearms. Darwin was most impressed by these glaciers and describes the scene so well. 'It is scarcely possible to imagine anything more...with the dead white of the upper expanse of snow.' Fittingly they all have one thing in common. Their birthplace is high up in the Cordillera Darwin.... | |
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The lofty mountains boldly rise to a height of between three and four thousand feet. They are covered by a wide mantle of perpetual snow, and numerous cascades pour their waters through the woods, into the narrow channel below. In many parts, magnificent... 
