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... cold countrie , Where the white snow always lies , Where the storms , and the cold , and the big whales blow . And the daylight never dies . " WITH ILLUSTRATIONS . London : MACMILLAN AND CO . 1879 . AE The Right of Translation and ...
... cold countrie , Where the white snow always lies , Where the storms , and the cold , and the big whales blow . And the daylight never dies . " WITH ILLUSTRATIONS . London : MACMILLAN AND CO . 1879 . AE The Right of Translation and ...
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... cold quells aught but soul , Draws manly hearts with strange desire to lift her icy veil ; The bravest still have sought her , and will seek , whoever fail . March , 1879 . A. H. MARKHAM . DEDICATION PREFACE . · CONTENTS . PAGE vii ix ...
... cold quells aught but soul , Draws manly hearts with strange desire to lift her icy veil ; The bravest still have sought her , and will seek , whoever fail . March , 1879 . A. H. MARKHAM . DEDICATION PREFACE . · CONTENTS . PAGE vii ix ...
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... cold , they saw " great store of ice . " On the 3rd and 4th of July , their " shrouds and sails were frozen : " on the 9th and 10th , they were " encompassed with ice . " The highest latitude reached by Hudson was about 80 ° 30 ′ , on ...
... cold , they saw " great store of ice . " On the 3rd and 4th of July , their " shrouds and sails were frozen : " on the 9th and 10th , they were " encompassed with ice . " The highest latitude reached by Hudson was about 80 ° 30 ′ , on ...
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... Cold , in Lat . 78 ° 43 ′ N. sets down the situation of three leagues of Although Poole this cape as in Greenland , it is really on the south - west coast of Spitzbergen . On the 26th Captain Poole , from obser- vations made on that day ...
... Cold , in Lat . 78 ° 43 ′ N. sets down the situation of three leagues of Although Poole this cape as in Greenland , it is really on the south - west coast of Spitzbergen . On the 26th Captain Poole , from obser- vations made on that day ...
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... cold at the Pole than in Greenland , because at the former there is no land , and it is well - known that ice is only " made about shoars of land , but never in open sea . ” Our worthy Hydrographer seems to have been sorely puzzled with ...
... cold at the Pole than in Greenland , because at the former there is no land , and it is well - known that ice is only " made about shoars of land , but never in open sea . ” Our worthy Hydrographer seems to have been sorely puzzled with ...
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