... or 500 feet high. Nothing is more dangerous than to approach these cliffs of ice. Every now and then huge masses detach themselves from the face of the crystal steep, and topple over into the water; and woe be to the unfortunate ship which might happen... Pictures of Arctic Travel: Greenland - หน้า 144โดย Isaac Israel Hayes - 1881 - 144 หน้ามุมมองทั้งเล่ม - เกี่ยวกับหนังสือเล่มนี้
| Frederick Temple Blackwood Marquis of Dufferin and Ava - 1857 - 544 หน้า
...water ; and woe be to the unfortunate ship which might happen to be passing below. Scoresby himself actually witnessed a mass of ice — the size of a...thunder down into the sea from a height of 400 feet; frequently during our stay in Spitzbergen we ourselves observed x 306 LETTERS FROM HIGH LATITUDES.... | |
| 1859 - 386 หน้า
...their fall into the sea is four hundred or five hundred feet in depth. From one such he says he saw " a mass of ice, the size of a cathedral, thunder down into the sea, from a height of four hundred feet." " Who is able to abide His frost ?" Wonderful, surpassing the conception of man,... | |
| William Jordan Unwin - 1862 - 374 หน้า
...into the water; and woe be to the unfortunate ship which might happen to be passing below. Scoresby witnessed a mass of ice, the size of a cathedral,...thunder down into the sea from a height of 400 feet. Frequently, during our stay in Spitzbergen, we ourselves observed specimens of these ice avalanches... | |
| Arctic discovery - 1799 - 424 หน้า
...water; and woe be to the unfortunate ship which might happen to be passing below. Scoresby himself actually witnessed a mass of ice, the size of a cathedral,...thunder down into the sea from a height of 400 feet. Frequently during our stay in Spitzbergen we ourselves observed specimens of these ice avalanches ;... | |
| Wonders - 1866 - 400 หน้า
...water ; and woe be to the unfortunate ship which might happen to be passing below. Scoresby himself actually witnessed a mass of ice, the size of a cathedral,...thunder down into the sea from a height of 400 feet. Frequently, during our stay in Spitzbergen, we ourselves observed specimens of these ice-avalanches... | |
| Philip George and son, ltd - 1874 - 296 หน้า
...water, and woe be to the unfortunate ship which might happen to be passing below ! Scoresby himself actually witnessed a mass- of ice — the size of...cathedral — thunder down into the sea from a height of four hundred feet. Frequently during our stay in Spitzbergen, we ourselves observed these ice avalanches... | |
| James Macaulay - 1879 - 418 หน้า
...water ; and woe be to the unfortunate ship which might happen to be passing below. Scoresby himself actually witnessed a mass of ice, the size of a cathedral,...thunder down into the sea from a height of 400 feet. Frequently during our stay in Spitzbergen we ourselves observed specimens of these ice avalanches ;... | |
| Evan Daniel - 1879 - 260 หน้า
...water, and woe be to the unfortunate ship which might happen to be passing below I Scoresby himself actually witnessed a mass of ice— the size of a...cathedral — thunder down into the sea from a height of four hundred feet. Frequently during our stay in Spitzbergen, we ourselves observed these ice avalanches... | |
| Griffith, Farran, Browne and co - 1883 - 392 หน้า
...and woe be to the unfortunate ship that might happen to be passing below ! Scoresby on one occasion witnessed a mass of ice — the size of a cathedral...thunder down into the sea from a height of 400 feet : frequently during our stay at Spitzbergen we ourselves observed specimens of these ice avalanches... | |
| Thomas Morrison (LL.D.) - 1884 - 296 หน้า
...water ; and woe be to the unfortunate ship which might happen to be passing below. Scoresby himself actually witnessed a mass of ice, the size of a cathedral,...thunder down into the sea from a height of 400 feet. Frequently, during our stay in Spitzbergen, we ourselves observed specimens of these ice avalanches;... | |
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