| William Jardine - 1837 - 396 pages
...wonderful display of daring enterprise as follows : — " While we are carrying on the whale fishery under the Arctic. circle, we hear that they have pierced...frozen serpent of the south. Falkland island, which seems too remote and too romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and... | |
| 1838 - 518 pages
...behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits; while we are looking for them beneath the Arctic circle,...south. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and too romantic an object fur the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and restingplace for their... | |
| Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1838 - 646 pages
...behold them penetrating into the deepeit frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits ; while we are looking for them beneath the Arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite rcçiou of polar cold ; that they are at the antipodes, and ingagcd under the frozen serpent of the... | |
| Salma Hale - America - 1838 - 334 pages
...mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's bay and Davis's straits ; whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they havepierced into the opposite region of polar cold ; that they are. at the Antipodes, and engaged under... | |
| Thomas Beale (surgeon.) - Offshore whaling - 1839 - 426 pages
...and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's and Davis's Straits, while we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle,...frozen serpent of the south. Falkland Island, which seems too remote for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting place for their victorious... | |
| John William Carleton - 1843 - 672 pages
...and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's and Davis's Straits ; while we are looking for them beneath the Arctic Circle,...frozen serpent of the south. Falkland Island, which seems too remote for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting place for their victorious... | |
| Commerce - 1840 - 556 pages
...behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis' Straits ; while we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle,...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... | |
| Commerce - 1840 - 572 pages
...deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis' Straits ; while we are looking for them benenth the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced...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... | |
| Commerce - 1840 - 548 pages
...frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the artic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite...serpent of the south. Falkland Island, which seemed loo remote and romantic un object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place... | |
| 1841 - 982 pages
...behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's bay and Davis's straits; while we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle,...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... | |
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