 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1825 - 464 sider
...we had many whales about the ship, and the sea was literally covered with birds of the blue peterel kind. Not a particle of ice of any description was to be seen. The evening was mild and serene ; and had it not been for the reflection, that probably we should have... | |
 | 1825 - 468 sider
...we had many whales about the ship, and the sea was literally covered with birds of the blue peterel kind. Not a particle of ice of any description was to be seen. The evening was mild and serene ; and had it not been for the reflection, that probably we should have... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1826 - 644 sider
...nothing like land nor any indication of land appeared. The weather continued mild and serene, and ' not a particle of ice of any description was to be seen ;' and this absence of ice continued till the 20th of February, when, in latitude 74° 1 5', longitude... | |
 | James Weddell - 1827 - 374 sider
...upon deck, and I found them to agree, but rather inactive in traversing. birds of the blue peterel kind. NOT A PARTICLE OF ICE OF ANY DESCRIPTION WAS TO BE SEEN. The evening was mild and serene, and had it not been for the reflection that probably we should have... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1827 - 702 sider
...and by numbers of finned and hump-backed whale*. On the 18th, latitude by observation, 72°. 38'. " not a particle of ice of any description was to be seen," and the weather was mild and serene. On the 20th the wind blew freshly from the south, and the atmosphere... | |
 | Joseph C. Hart - 1835 - 218 sider
...voyage was published in London in 1827 ; and its author declares that, in the latitude of 73° south " not a particle of ice of any description was to be seen ;" and further, that he " sailed to the latitude of 74° 15" south, and there left a clear and navigable... | |
 | 1836 - 798 sider
...temperature of the air and water mild, the weather pleasant." The latter reports that in 72° 38' S. " not a particle of ice of any description was to be seen ; the weather was mild and serene ; and had it not been for the reflection that we should probably... | |
 | William Jay Youmans - 1897 - 902 sider
...18th of * MorrelL A Narrative of Four Voyages to the South Sea, 1832, p. 66. February, remarks : " Not a particle of ice of any description was to be seen, the evening was mild and serene, and our situation might have been envied had it not been for the reflection... | |
 | 1897 - 896 sider
...18th of * Morrell. A Narrative of Four Voyages to the South Sea, 1832, p. 66. February, remarks : " Not a particle of ice of any description was to be seen, the evening was mild and serene, and our situation might have been envied had it not been for the reflection... | |
 | Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow - 1901 - 334 sider
...Here, on the 20th of February, he found a sea clear of field-ice, with only three icebergs in view. Two days previously, two degrees farther north, Weddell...Graham's Land, the Norwegians and ourselves first seeing, in 1892 and 1893, the eastern coast. Several other masters sailing under Messrs. Enderby made discoveries,... | |
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NOT A PARTICLE OF ICE OF ANY DESCRIPTION WAS TO BE SEEN. 
