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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... twenty hundred - weight . The Hudson's Bay ships are generally two in number ; one of them being em- ployed in taking supplies to Moose Factory , at the bottom of James's Bay , and the other to York Factory , in latitude 57 ° N ...
... twenty hundred - weight . The Hudson's Bay ships are generally two in number ; one of them being em- ployed in taking supplies to Moose Factory , at the bottom of James's Bay , and the other to York Factory , in latitude 57 ° N ...
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... twenty Europeans , a guide , and sixteen Com- pany's voyagers , together with the wives of three of the latter , and two children ; making in all , with himself and two of his own children , forty- five individuals , embarked in five ...
... twenty Europeans , a guide , and sixteen Com- pany's voyagers , together with the wives of three of the latter , and two children ; making in all , with himself and two of his own children , forty- five individuals , embarked in five ...
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... twenty - five feet above the water , with rolled stones and pebbles . These rounded stones vary in size from that of a hogshead to a hen's egg , and form a steeply shelv- ing beach , with a flat terraced summit , the larger boulders ...
... twenty - five feet above the water , with rolled stones and pebbles . These rounded stones vary in size from that of a hogshead to a hen's egg , and form a steeply shelv- ing beach , with a flat terraced summit , the larger boulders ...
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... 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 a scene of desola- tion ...
... 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 a scene of desola- tion ...
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... twenty to thirty feet high . Mud and vege- table matter gradually fill up the pieces of water thus secluded ; a willow swamp is formed ; and when the ground is somewhat consolidated , the willows are replaced by a grove of aspens ...
... twenty to thirty feet high . Mud and vege- table matter gradually fill up the pieces of water thus secluded ; a willow swamp is formed ; and when the ground is somewhat consolidated , the willows are replaced by a grove of aspens ...
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