 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1796 - 672 pages
...height. Ninety-teven ice hills were diftinctly feeu within the field, befides thofs on the outfide ; many of them very large, and looking like a ridge of mountains, rifing one above another, till they were loft in the clouds. The outer or northern edge of this immenie... | |
 | John Pinkerton - 1812 - 1030 pages
...height. Ninety-feven ice-hills were diftinftly feen within the field, befide thofe on the outfide ; many of them very large, and looking like a ridge of mountains, rifing one above another till they were loft in the clouds. The outer or northern edge of this immenfe... | |
 | John Campbell - 1813 - 546 pages
...islands were counted within the field, beside those on the outside ; many of them were large, and looked like a ridge of mountains, rising one above another...that it was not possible for any thing to enter it. Captain Cook, however, is of opinion, that there must be land to the south behind this ice; but adds,... | |
 | Edward Polehampton - 1815 - 628 pages
...which seemed to be raised several feet high above the level of the water. Whilst in this situation, the southern part of the horizon was illuminated by...Captain Cook believed were never seen in the Greenland seas, so that no comparison can be: drawn between the ice here and there; and it was the opinion of... | |
 | 1815 - 476 pages
...Ninety-seven ice-islands were distinctly seen within the field, besides those on the outside; many qf them very large, and looking like a ridge of moun.tains,...enter it. Such mountains of ice as these, captain Cook believes, never were seen in the Greenland seas, so that no comparison can be drawn between the ice... | |
 | Robert Kerr - 1815 - 546 pages
...ice, to n considerable height. Ninetyseven ice hills were distinctly seen within the field, besides those on the outside ; many of them very large, and...that it was not possible for any thing to enter it. This was about a mile broad, within which, was solid ice in one continued compact body. It was rather... | |
 | Robert Kerr - 1815 - 542 pages
...hills were distinctly seen within the field, besides those on the outside ; many of them very largej and looking like a ridge of mountains, rising one...that it was not possible for any thing to enter it. This was about a mile broad, within which, was solid ice in one continued compact body. It was rather... | |
 | General history - 1815 - 802 pages
...were distinctly seen within the field, besides those on the outside ; many of them very large, nnd looking like a ridge of mountains, rising one above...that it was not possible for any thing to enter it. This was about a mile broad, within which, was solid ice in one continued compact body. It was rather... | |
 | John Campbell - 1818 - 520 pages
...islands were counted within the field, beside these on the outside; many of them were large, and looked like a ridge of mountains, rising one above another...that it was not possible for any thing to enter it. Captain Cook, however, is of opinion, that there must be land to the south behind this ice; but adds,... | |
 | James Cook - 1821 - 386 pages
...ice, to a considerable he||jht. Ninety-seven ice-hills were distinctly seen within the field, besides those on the outside; many of them very large, and...that it was not possible for any thing to enter it. This was about a mile broad j within which was solid ice in one continued compact body. It was rather... | |
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Ninety-seven ice hills were distinctly seen within the field, besides those on the outside; many of them very large, and looking like a ridge of mountains, rising one above another till they were lost in the clouds. 
