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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... probably not direct , and may be intricate . Vessels , therefore , having pushed into one of them would be exposed to the ice closing in behind and barring all regress . Sir John Ross , whose opinions are first recorded in the ...
... probably not direct , and may be intricate . Vessels , therefore , having pushed into one of them would be exposed to the ice closing in behind and barring all regress . Sir John Ross , whose opinions are first recorded in the ...
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... probably would do , I have no hesitation in stating my conviction , that he would never be able to extricate his ships , and would ultimately be obliged to abandon them . It is , therefore , in latitude 73 ° N. and longitude 135 ° W ...
... probably would do , I have no hesitation in stating my conviction , that he would never be able to extricate his ships , and would ultimately be obliged to abandon them . It is , therefore , in latitude 73 ° N. and longitude 135 ° W ...
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... that space in which most probably the ships have become involved ( if at all ) , and would , therefore , have the best chance of communicating to Sir John Franklin information of the 1847 . PLANS OF SEARCH ADOPTED . 21 measures that.
... that space in which most probably the ships have become involved ( if at all ) , and would , therefore , have the best chance of communicating to Sir John Franklin information of the 1847 . PLANS OF SEARCH ADOPTED . 21 measures that.
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... probably occupy 30 days ; but you cannot calculate to be able to keep the sea later than the 15th of September , for , from the beginning of that month , the young ice covers the sea almost every night , and very greatly im- pedes the ...
... probably occupy 30 days ; but you cannot calculate to be able to keep the sea later than the 15th of September , for , from the beginning of that month , the young ice covers the sea almost every night , and very greatly im- pedes the ...
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... and presented by him to the British Museum . He probably found it in some of the western arms of the lake , the islands in the more easterly part being mostly granite . LAKE WINIPEG . 63 sandstones , and trap rocks , 62 THOUSAND LAKES .
... and presented by him to the British Museum . He probably found it in some of the western arms of the lake , the islands in the more easterly part being mostly granite . LAKE WINIPEG . 63 sandstones , and trap rocks , 62 THOUSAND LAKES .
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