 Straits, — whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold ; that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the South. Falkland Island, which seemed...  American Monthly Knickerbocker - Σελίδα 5011848Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1829 - 616 σελίδες
...engaged under the frozen serpent of the South. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but...accumulated winter of both the poles. We know, that, whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - 1833 - 614 σελίδες
...engaged under the frozen Serpent of the south. Falkland island, which seemed too remote and too romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place for their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1830 - 334 σελίδες
...engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but...accumulated winter of both the poles. We know, that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude,... | |
 | Josiah Conder - 1830 - 396 σελίδες
...engaged under the frozen serpent of the South. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but...accumulated winter of both the poles. We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude,... | |
 | Salma Hale - 1830 - 330 σελίδες
...engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic 'nn object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting place m the progress of their victorious industry. 27. " ]\or is the equinoctial heat more... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1831 - 356 σελίδες
...engaged under the. frozen serpent of the south. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but...accumulated winter of both the poles. We know, that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1832 - 310 σελίδες
...engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland* island, which teemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting place in the progress of their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging... | |
 | David Urquhart - 1833 - 362 σελίδες
...engaged under the frozen serpent of the South. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and too romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place for their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoxial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Americana - 1833 - 548 σελίδες
...engaged under the frozen Serpent of the south. Falkland island, which seemed too remote and too romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place for their victorious industry. Ñor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated... | |
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