 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1835 - 1138 sider
...pole was an object ая conspicuous and mysterious us the fabled mountain of Sinbad, that it even was a mountain of iron, or a magnet as large as Mont Blanc....our business to submit, and to be content in noting by mathematical numbers and signs, as with things of far more importance in the terrestrial system,... | |
 | 1835 - 466 sider
...pole was an object as conspicuous and mysterious as the fabled mountain of Sinbad, that it even was a mountain of iron, or a magnet as large as Mont Blanc....our business to submit, and to be content in noting, by mathematical numbers and signs, as with things of far more importance in the terrestrial system,... | |
 | 1835 - 612 sider
...pole was an object as conspicuous and mysterious as the fabled mountain of Sinbad, that it even was a mountain of iron, or a magnet as large as Mont Blanc....we could do little ourselves towards this end, it wa* our business to submit, and to be content in noting by mathematical numbers and sign*, as with... | |
 | John Ross, James Clark Ross - 1835 - 528 sider
...was an object as conspicuous and mysterious as the •'fabled mountain of Sinbad, that it even was a mountain of iron, or a magnet as large as Mont Blanc. But Nature had here i erected no monument to denote the spot which she had chosen • . as the centre of one of her great... | |
 | 1840 - 572 sider
...mountain of iron, or a magnet as big as Mont Blane. But Nature had erected no monument to denote the spot she had chosen as the centre of one of her great and dark powers." The widest part of the peninsula of Boothia is ascertained to be but fifteen miles wide, of which ten... | |
 | Sir John Leslie, Robert Jameson, Hugh Murray - 1845 - 440 sider
...there was merely a low flat coast, rising about a mile inland into ridges fifty or sixty feet high. " Nature had here erected no monument to denote the...as the centre of one of her great and dark powers." The commander, notwithstanding, placed upon it a flag, and to the locality has since been assigned... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1848 - 892 sider
...discoverer was natural, that a place so important had possessed more of mark or note, but Nature had erected no monument to denote the spot which she had...the centre of one of her " great and dark powers." A cairn of some magnitude was constructed by the adventurers, upon which the British flag was planted,... | |
 | 1850 - 762 sider
...He looked in vain for some objjct to mark the spot. " Nature had here erected no monument to donóte the spot which she had chosen as the centre of one of her 'great and dark powers " Commander Ross erected a pile of stones and returned to the ship. The summer of 1831 now arrived,... | |
 | 1851 - 496 sider
...was an object as conspicuous and mysterious as the fabled mountain of Sinbad, — that it even was a mountain of iron, or a magnet as large as Mont Blanc....here erected no monument to denote the spot which she has chosen as the centre of one of her great und dark powers; and where we could do little ourselves... | |
 | Jabez Hogg - 1853 - 390 sider
...to which so much of interest must ever be attached ; and I could even have pardoned any one amongst us who had been so romantic or absurd as to expect...as the centre of one of her great and dark powers " The necessary observations were immediately commenced The place of the observatory was as near to... | |
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... much of interest must ever be attached ; and I could even have pardoned any one among us who had been so romantic or absurd as to expect that the magnetic pole was an object as conspicuous and mysterious as the fabled mountain of Sinbad, that it even... 
