Arctic Searching Expedition: A Journal of a Boat-voyage Through Rupert's Land and the Arctic Sea in Search of the Discovery Ships Under Command of Sir John Franklin, Band 1Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1851 - 4 Seiten |
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... In various parts of the lake , the gorges lying be- tween the jutting bluffs of granite or slate are filled with deposits of sand rising in four or five succes- sive terraces to the height of more than a hundred feet above the present ...
... In various parts of the lake , the gorges lying be- tween the jutting bluffs of granite or slate are filled with deposits of sand rising in four or five succes- sive terraces to the height of more than a hundred feet above the present ...
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... in flood , and the bar remained hard , but was cleft by a narrow channel with precipitous sides like sandstone cliffs , and a cascade one foot high existed . This fall , which was five or six feet high when the river broke , would , we ...
... in flood , and the bar remained hard , but was cleft by a narrow channel with precipitous sides like sandstone cliffs , and a cascade one foot high existed . This fall , which was five or six feet high when the river broke , would , we ...
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... In a season or two the slabs break into small fragments , which are tossed up by the waves across the neck of the bay into the form of narrow ridge - like beaches , from twenty to thirty feet high . Mud and vege- table matter gradually fill ...
... In a season or two the slabs break into small fragments , which are tossed up by the waves across the neck of the bay into the form of narrow ridge - like beaches , from twenty to thirty feet high . Mud and vege- table matter gradually fill ...
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... we encamped the limestone ( silurian * ) rises , in successive outcrops , Some fragments of large Orthocerata , and a specimen of Receptaculites neptunii , point to the bird's - eye and Trenton to the height of thirty feet above the water ,
... we encamped the limestone ( silurian * ) rises , in successive outcrops , Some fragments of large Orthocerata , and a specimen of Receptaculites neptunii , point to the bird's - eye and Trenton to the height of thirty feet above the water ,
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... in a neighbouring bush while he serenades his mate . At the outlet of Beaver Lake , and at several succeeding points on both sides of the canoe- route , the thin slaty limestone forms cliffs , thirty or forty feet high ; but about the ...
... in a neighbouring bush while he serenades his mate . At the outlet of Beaver Lake , and at several succeeding points on both sides of the canoe- route , the thin slaty limestone forms cliffs , thirty or forty feet high ; but about the ...
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