 | George Chaplin Child- Chaplin - 1866 - عدد الصفحات: 308
...mountains, and all the precipitation of the atmosphere upon its own surface. Imagine this moving onwards like a great glacial river, seeking outlets at every fiord and valley, rolling cataracts into the Atlantic and Greenland seas ; and having at last reached the northern limit of the... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1857 - عدد الصفحات: 598
...perennial increase from the water-shed of vast snow-covered mountains, and all the precipitations of the atmosphere upon its own surface. Imagine this moving...unknown Arctic space. It is thus, and only thus, that we must form a just conception of a phenomenon like this great glacier.' Another of these sledge expeditions... | |
 | John Tillotson - 1869 - عدد الصفحات: 368
...perennial increase from the watershed of vast snow-covered mountains, and all the precipitations of the atmosphere upon its own surface. Imagine this moving...mighty frozen torrent into unknown Arctic space." But notwithstanding Kane's earnest desire to approach the great glacier, his health prevented him.... | |
 | 1857 - عدد الصفحات: 426
...— moving onwards like a great glacial river seeking outlets at every ford and valley, rolling its icy cataracts into the Atlantic and Greenland seas,...a mighty frozen torrent into unknown Arctic space. — Dr. Kane's Second Expedition. CEDAR SWAMPS OF NEW JERSEY. From Ihe recent report on the geological... | |
 | Frank Boott Goodrich - 1873 - عدد الصفحات: 726
...perennial increase from the water-shed of vast snow-covered mountains and all the precipitations of the atmosphere upon its own surface. Imagine this moving...a mighty frozen torrent into unknown Arctic space. . . . Here was a plastic, moving, semi-solid mass, obliterating life, swallowing rocks and islands,... | |
 | R. M. DEVENS - 1876 - عدد الصفحات: 1014
...mountains and all the precipitations of the atmosphere upon its own surface. Imagine this, moving on like a great glacial river, seeking outlets at every...and, having at last reached the northern limit of land that has borne it up, pouring out a mighty frozen torrent into unknown Arctic space." This ingenious... | |
 | 1878 - عدد الصفحات: 842
...atmosphere upon its own surface Imagine (his moving on like a great glacial river, seeking an outlet at every fiord and valley, rolling icy cataracts into the Atlantic and Greenland sea. It is thus, and thus only, that we must form a just conception of a great glacier. It was slowly... | |
 | George Frederick Wright - 1889 - عدد الصفحات: 704
...perennial increase from the water-shed of vast snow-covered mountains and all the precipitations of its atmosphere upon its own surface. Imagine this, moving...unknown arctic space. It is thus, and only thus, that we must form a just conception of a phenomenon like this great glacier. I had looked in my own mind... | |
 | George Frederick Wright, Warren Upham - 1889 - عدد الصفحات: 662
...perennial increase from the water-shed of vast snow-covered mountains and all the precipitations of its atmosphere upon its own surface. Imagine this, moving...rolling icy cataracts into the Atlantic and Greenland "Arctic Explorations," vol. i, p. 135. seas ; and, having at last reached the northern limit of the... | |
 | George Frederick Wright - 1891 - عدد الصفحات: 698
...rolling icy cataracts into the Atlantic and Greenland sees ; and, having at last reached the northera limit of the land that has borne it up, pouring out...unknown arctic space. It is thus, and only thus, that we must form a just conception of a phenomenon like this great glacier. I had looked in my own mind... | |
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Imagine now the centre of such a continent, occupied through nearly its whole extent by a deep unbroken sea of ice, that gathers perennial increase from the water-shed of vast snow-covered mountains, and all the precipitations of the atmosphere upon its... 
