 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
 | Thomas Beale (surgeon.) - 1839 - 426 σελίδες
...Island, which seems too remote for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting place for their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial...discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of both poles. We learn, that while some of them draw the line or strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1839 - 602 σελίδες
...eulogy of the piscatory enterprise of the New Englanders: — 1 Falkland Island, which seems too remote 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... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1839 - 614 σελίδες
...eulogy of the piscatory enterprise of the New Englanders:— 'Falkland Island, which seems too remote for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and restingplace for their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated... | |
 | 1840 - 550 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... | |
 | 1840 - 556 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... | |
 | 1840 - 548 σελίδες
...engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland Island, which seemed loo remote and romantic un 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... | |
 | 1840 - 572 σελίδες
...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...than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We learn that while some of them draw the line or strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run... | |
 | 1840 - 556 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... | |
 | Francis Allyn Olmsted - 1841 - 390 σελίδες
...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...winter of both the poles. We know that while some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue... | |
 | 1841 - 982 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... | |
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