The place which, by some accident, had fallen in, and is now exposed to the sun and air, melts away, and a good deal of water flows into the sea. An indisputable proof that what we saw was real ice, is the quantity of mammoth's teeth and bones, which... Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections - Page 681907Full view - About this book
| Otto von Kotzebue - 1821 - 400 pages
...feet ; and then runs off, rising still higher. We saw masses of the purest ice, of the height of an hundred feet, which are under a cover of moss and...fallen in, and is now exposed to the sun and air, melts away, and a good deal of water flows into the sea. An indisputable proof that what we saw was... | |
| 1822 - 582 pages
...rises almost perpendicularly out of the sea, to the height of a hundred feet ; and then runs oft', rising still higher. We saw masses of the purest ice...fallen in, and is now exposed to the sun and air, melts away, and a good deal of water flows into the sea. An indisputable proof that what we saw was... | |
| 1822 - 574 pages
...shovels and crows, to examine this phenomenon more closely ; and soon arrived at a place, where the back rises almost perpendicularly out of the sea, to the...grass; and could not have been produced but by some terĀ» ' riblc rible revolution. The place which, by some accident, had fallen in, and is now exposed... | |
| 1822 - 880 pages
...height of a hundred feet ; and then runs off, rising still higher. We saw masses of the purest ice, ot the height of a hundred feet, which are under a cover...fallen in, and is now exposed to the sun and air, melts away, and a good deal of water flows into the sea. An indisputableproof that what we saw was... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 426 pages
...feet; and then runs off, rising still higher. We saw masses of the purest ice of the height of 100 feet, which are under a cover of moss and grass ;...could not have been produced but by some terrible revolutiooThe place which by some accident had fallen jr. and is now exposed to the sun and air, melts... | |
| Frederick William Beechey - 1831 - 532 pages
...upon the cliff in question were very few in number, and variable from one year to another ; that the " masses of the purest ice of the height of a hundred feet," which were seen by the Russian officers, had entirely vanished ; and that nearly the whole front of the cliff,... | |
| Andrew Kippis - 1843 - 456 pages
...more than a hundred feet. There they perceived masses of the purest ice more than thirty yards thick, which are under a cover of moss and grass, and could not, they imagined, have been produced but by some terrible convulsion of nature. This part, which by some... | |
| Hubert Howe Bancroft, Alfred Bates, Ivan Petroff, William Nemos - 1886 - 830 pages
...closely, and soon arrived at a place where the back rises almost perpendicularly out of the sea to a height of a hundred feet; and then runs off, rising...could not have been produced but by some terrible revolution.i4 The place, which by some accident had fallen in and is now exposed to the sun and air,... | |
| Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1886 - 824 pages
...closely, and soon arrived at a place where the back rises almost perpendicularly out of the sea to a height of a hundred feet ; and then runs off, rising...could not have been produced but by some terrible revolution.14 The place, which by some accident had fallen in and is now exposed to the sun and air,... | |
| Hubert Howe Bancroft, Alfred Bates, Ivan Petroff, William Nemos - 1886 - 828 pages
...closely, and soon arrived at a place where the back rises almost perpendicularly out of the sea to a height of a hundred feet; and then runs off, rising...which are under a cover of moss and grass, and could nc^t have been produced but by some terrible revolution." The place, which by some accident had fallen... | |
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