 While the duties of the ship were being forwarded under my first lieutenant, Mr. Peard, I took the opportunity to visit the extraordinary ice formations in Eschscholtz Bay, mentioned by Kotzebue as ' being covered with a soil half a foot thick, producing...  Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections - Page 1021907Full view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1831 - 570 pages
...scientific world. The Russian voyager describes it as a cliff of ice, ' covered with a soil half a foot thick, producing the most luxuriant grass,' and containing abundance of mammoth bones; but our countrymen ascertained, beyond all doubt, that these cliffs were composed not of ice, but of... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1831 - 572 pages
...scientific world. The Russian voyager describes it as a cliff of ice, ' covered with a soil half a foot thick, producing the most luxuriant grass,' and containing abundance of mammoth bones ; but our countrymen ascertained, beyond all doubt, that these cliffs were composed not of ice, but... | |
 | Alexander George Findlay - 1851 - 748 pages
...ice formations in Eschscholtz Bay, mentioned by Kotzebue as ' being covered with a soil half a foot thick, producing the most luxuriant grass," and containing abundance of mammoth bones. We sailed up the bay, which was extremely shallow, and landed at a deserted village on a low sandy... | |
 | 1869 - 206 pages
...ice formations in Eschscholtz Bay, mentioned by Kotzebue as ' being covered with a soil half a foot thick, producing the most luxuriant grass,' and containing abundance of mammoth bones. We sailed up the bay, which was extremely shallow, and landed at a deserted village on a low sandy... | |
 | United States. Revenue-Cutter Service, Calvin Leighton Hooper - 1884 - 226 pages
...is remarkable for a singular ice formation, which Kotzehue described as glacier covered with soil 6 inches thick, producing the most luxuriant grass,...above, or by the snow being banked up against the clitf in winter and afterwards converted into ice by alternate thawing and freezing, producing the... | |
 | Sheldon Jackson, United States. Office of Education - 1896 - 200 pages
...extraordinary ice formations in Eschscholtz Bay. mentioned by Kotzebue as being covered with soil half a foot thick, producing the most luxuriant grass, and containing abundance of mammoth bones. We sailed up the bay, which was extremely shallow, and landed at a deserted village on a low, sandy... | |
 | Sheldon Jackson - 1896 - 198 pages
...extraordinary ice formations m Eschscholtz Bay, mentioned by Kotzebue as being covered with soil half a foot thick, producing the most luxuriant grass, and containing abundance of mammoth bones. We sailed up the bay, which was extremely shallow, and landed at a deserted village on a low, sandy... | |
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