 | 1818 - 638 sider
...navigator, 20 or 30 miles beyond the limit of direct vision, not only the extent and figure, but even the quality of the ice. The blink from packs of ice, appears of a pure white, while that which is occasioned by snow-fields has some tinge of yellow. The mountains of hard and perfect ice,... | |
 | Edinburgh cabinet library - 1830 - 456 sider
...navigator, 20 or 30 miles beyond the limit of direct vision, not only the extent and figure, but even the quality of the ice. The blink from packs of ice appears of a pure white, while that which is occasioned by snowfields has some tinge of yellow. The mountains of hard and perfect ice are... | |
 | Sir John Leslie, Robert Jameson, Hugh Murray - 1832 - 946 sider
...navigator, 20 or 30 miles beyond the limit of direct vision, not only the extent and figure, but even the quality of the ice. The blink from packs of ice appears of a pure white, while that which is occasioned by snowlields has some tinge of yellow. The mountains of hard and perfect ice are... | |
 | 1834 - 658 sider
...twenty or thirty miles beyond the limits of direct vision, not only the extent and fig. ure, but even the quality of the ice. The blink from packs of ice appears of a pure white, while that which is occasioned by snow-fields has sonie tinge of yellow. The mountains of hard and perfect ice... | |
 | 1836 - 422 sider
...twenty or thirty miles beyond the limit of direct vision, not only the extent and figure, but even the quality of the ice. The blink from packs of ice, appears of a pure white, while that which is occasioned by snow fields has some tinge of yellow. GMJ LONDON Published by Effingham Wilson,... | |
 | 1843 - 408 sider
...navigator, 20 or 30 miles beyond the limit of direct vision, not only the extent and figure, but even the quality of the ice. The blink from packs of ice appears of a pure white, while that which is occasioned by snow-fields has some tinge of yellow. The mountains of hard and perfect ice... | |
 | Sir John Leslie, Robert Jameson, Hugh Murray - 1845 - 440 sider
...navigator, 20 or 30 miles beyond the limit of direct vision, not only the extent and figure, but even the quality of the ice. The blink from packs of ice appears of a pure white, while that which is occasioned by snow-fields has some tinge of yellow. The mountains of hard and perfect ice... | |
 | Frozen stream - 1846 - 162 sider
...extent. These being thus set afloat are, by the violence of the winds and currents, broken intojioes, or smaller fields, the size of which can be distinguished...could not otherwise be known ; and when beset by ice, he endeavours to make his way in their direction. The ice-blink often produces an effect called looming,... | |
 | Natural phenomena - 1846 - 142 sider
...other collections of floating ice is often discovered at a great distance, by a singular appearance in the horizon, called ice-blink. It is a band of lucid...figure, but also the quality of the ice. The blink from ice appears of a pure white, while that occasioned by wide plains of snow has a yellowish tinge. The... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1852 - 652 sider
...other collections of floating ice is often discovered at a great tlistance, by a singular appearance in the horizon, called ice-blink. It is a band of lucid...figure, but also the quality of the ice. The blink from ice appears of a pure white, while that occasioned by wide plains of snow has a yellowish tinge. The... | |
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This shining streak, which looks always brightest in clear weather, indicates, to the experienced navigator, 20 or 30 miles beyond the limit of direct vision, not only the extent and figure, but even the quality of the ice. The blink from packs of ice... 
