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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... hundred miles , of which sixteen hundred miles are performed on the Mackenzie and its affluents , from Methy Portage northwards , and in which the only interruptions to boat navi- gation are a few cascades and rapids in Clear - water ...
... hundred miles , of which sixteen hundred miles are performed on the Mackenzie and its affluents , from Methy Portage northwards , and in which the only interruptions to boat navi- gation are a few cascades and rapids in Clear - water ...
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... hundred miles ; and as the navigation , though much interrupted by rapids and cascades , admits , in the majority of seasons , of boats carrying a cargo of between fifty and sixty hundred - weight , it offers a much more economical ...
... hundred miles ; and as the navigation , though much interrupted by rapids and cascades , admits , in the majority of seasons , of boats carrying a cargo of between fifty and sixty hundred - weight , it offers a much more economical ...
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... hundred and eighty statute miles , from New York to the wintering place of the boat - party * , I shall * New York to La Chine La Chine to Buffalo - 500 miles . 372 99 SHORES OF LAKE SUPERIOR . 55 detail the events of 54 1848 . MR ...
... hundred and eighty statute miles , from New York to the wintering place of the boat - party * , I shall * New York to La Chine La Chine to Buffalo - 500 miles . 372 99 SHORES OF LAKE SUPERIOR . 55 detail the events of 54 1848 . MR ...
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... hundred feet above the present surface of the water . Mr. Logan has measured some of the most remarkable , and Professor Agassiz devotes an interesting chapter to the discussion of their origin ; in which he comes to the conclusion that ...
... hundred feet above the present surface of the water . Mr. Logan has measured some of the most remarkable , and Professor Agassiz devotes an interesting chapter to the discussion of their origin ; in which he comes to the conclusion that ...
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... hundred feet , and for twenty - five miles comes so preci- pitously down to the water that there is no safe landing for a boat . On much of the crags the forest was destroyed by fire , many years ago , and with it the soil , presenting ...
... hundred feet , and for twenty - five miles comes so preci- pitously down to the water that there is no safe landing for a boat . On much of the crags the forest was destroyed by fire , many years ago , and with it the soil , presenting ...
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