 | 1847 - 610 sivua
...under all studdingsails, we perceived a low white line extending from its extreme eastern point as far as the eye could discern to the eastward. It presented...and proving at length to be a perpendicular cliff of ire between 150 and 200 feet above the level of the fea, perfectly flat and level at the top, and without... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1850 - 782 sivua
...the land under all sail, ' we perceived a low white line extending from its eastern extreme point as far as the eye could discern to the eastward. It presented...length to be a perpendicular cliff of ice, between 150 and 200 feet above the level of the sea, perfectly flat and level at the top, and without any fissures... | |
 | John Stilwell Jenkins - 1853 - 534 sivua
...Here the southern progress of the voyagers was brought to a close by the appearance of a continuous perpendicular cliff of ice between one hundred and fifty and two hundred feet above the level of the sea. It extended from the extreme point of land as far as the eye could see, in an easterly direction,... | |
 | 1856 - 580 sivua
...the land under all sail, ' we perceived a low white line extending from its eastern extreme point as far as the eye could discern to the eastward. It presented...length to be a perpendicular cliff of ice, between 150 and 200 feet above the level of the sea, perfectly flat and level at the top, and without any fissures... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1917 - 688 sivua
...under all studding-sails, we perceived a low white line extending from its eastern extreme point as far as the eye could discern to the eastward. It presented...length to be a perpendicular cliff of ice, between 150 and 200 feet above the level of the sea, perfectly flat and level at the top, and without any fissures... | |
 | Josiah Dwight Whitney - 1882 - 450 sivua
...and Erebus, 12,400 feet] we perceived a low white line extending from its extreme eastern point as far as the eye could discern to the eastward. It presented...length to be a perpendicular cliff of ice, between 150 and 200 feet above the level of the sea, perfectly flat and level at the top, and without any fissures... | |
 | George Frederick Wright, Warren Upham - 1889 - 662 sivua
...the same navigator says : " We perceived a low white line extending from its extreme eastern point as far as the eye could discern to the eastward. It presented...length to be a perpendicular cliff of ice, between 150 and 200 feet above the level of the sea, perfectly flat and level at the top, and without any fissures... | |
 | George Frederick Wright - 1892 - 438 sivua
...same navigator says : " We perceived a low, white line extending from its extreme eastern point, as far as the eye could discern, to the eastward. It...length to be a perpendicular cliff of ice, between cue hundred and fifty and two hundred feet above the level of the sea, perfectly flat and level at... | |
 | 1886 - 896 sivua
...perceived a low white line extending from its extreme eastern point as far as the eye could perceive to the eastward. It presented an extraordinary appearance,...length to be a perpendicular cliff of ice between 150 and 200 feet above the level of the sea, perfectly flat and level at the top, and without any fissures... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1906 - 660 sivua
...under all studding sails, we perceived a low white line extending from its eastern extreme point as far as the eye could discern to the eastward. It presented...length to be a perpendicular cliff of ice between 150 and 200 feet above the level of the sea, perfectly flat and level at the top, and without any fissures... | |
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As we approached the land under all studding sails, we perceived a low white line extending from its eastern extreme point as far as the eye could discern to the eastward. It presented an extraordinary appearance, gradually increasing in height as we... 
