 ... expedition, yet it restored to England the honour of the discovery of the southernmost known land which had been nobly won, and for more than twenty years possessed, by Russia. Continuing our course towards this land for many hours, we seemed scarcely...  A Gazetteer of the World: AA-Brazey - Pàgina 2781856Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | George Henry Preble - 1880 - 890 pàgines
...southernmost known land, which had been nobly won, and for more than twenty years possessed by Eussia. Continuing our course towards this land, for many...seemed scarcely to approach it : it rose in lofty, mountainous peaks, of from nine thousand to twelve thousand feet in height, perpetually covered with... | |
 | E. E. Hale - 1882 - 310 pàgines
...to defeat one of the more important objects of the expedition, yet it restored to England the honor of the discovery of the southernmost known land, which...we seemed scarcely to approach it. It rose in lofty mountainous peaks of from nine to twelve thousand feet in height, perfectly covered with eternal snow;... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1883 - 308 pàgines
...to defeat one of the more important objects of the expedition, yet it restored to England the honor of the discovery of the southernmost known land, which...we seemed scarcely to approach it. It rose in lofty mountainous peaks of from nine to twelve thousand feet in height, perfectly covered with eternal snow... | |
 | George Henry Preble - 1917 - 442 pàgines
...were steering, and therefore directly between us and the pole." " This restored to England the honor of the discovery of the southernmost known land, which...seemed scarcely to approach it: it rose in lofty, mountainous peaks, of from nine thousand to twelve thousand feet in height, perpetually covered with... | |
 | 1842 - 632 pàgines
...regret, as being likely to defeat one of the more important objects of the expedition, yet it restored to England the honour of the discovery of the southernmost...and for more than twenty years possessed, by Russia. near the mountain summits projected many miles into the ocean, and presented a perpendicular face of... | |
 | Maurizio Bossi - 1984 - 748 pàgines
...expectation of shortly reaching the magnetic pole, yet these mountains, being in our way, restored to England the honour of the discovery of the southernmost known land, which had been nobly won by the intrepid Bellinghausen, and for more than twenty years retained by Russia.'—p. 187The mainland,... | |
 | 1867 - 968 pàgines
...100 miles, directly in the course we were steering, and, therefore, directly between us and the pole. Continuing our course towards this land for many hours,...approach it. It rose in lofty mountain peaks of from 9000 to 12,000 feet in height, perfectly covered with eternal snow ; the glaciers that descended from... | |
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