 | Elisha Kent Kane - 1856 - 504 pages
...lines. A more impressive illustration of the forces of nature can hardly be conceived. Regarded upon a large scale, I am satisfied that the iceberg is not disengaged by debdcle, as I once supposed. So far from falling into the sea, broken by its weight from the parent-glacier,... | |
 | Elisha Kent Kane - 1856 - 524 pages
...lines. A more impressive illustration of the forces of nature can hardly be conceived. Regarded upon a large scale, I am satisfied that the iceberg is not disengaged by debdcle, as I once supposed. So far from falling into the sea, broken by its weight from the parent-glacier,... | |
 | Elisha Kent Kane - 1856 - 514 pages
...lines. A more impressive illustration of the forces of nature can hardly be conceived. Regarded upon a large scale, I am satisfied that the iceberg is not disengaged by debdcle, as I once supposed. So far from falling into the sea, broken by its weight from the parent-glacier,... | |
 | Elisha Kent Kane - 1856 - 518 pages
...lines. A more impressive illustration of the forces of nature can hardly be conceived. Kegarded upon a large scale, I am satisfied that the iceberg is not disengaged by debdcle, as I once supposed. So far from falling into the sea, broken by its weight from the parent-glacier,... | |
 | Elisha Kent Kane - 1857 - 490 pages
...lines. A more impressive illustration of the forces of nature can hardly be conceived. Regarded upon a large scale, I am satisfied that the iceberg is...falling into the sea, broken by its weight from the parent-glacier, it rises from the sea. The process is at once gradual and comparatively quiet. The... | |
 | Eli Bowen - 1865 - 512 pages
...more impressive illustration of the forces of Nature can hardly be conceived. Regarded upon a largo scale, I am satisfied that the iceberg is not disengaged...sea, broken by its weight from the parent glacier, it r/sei/rom the tea. The process is at once gradual and comparatively quiet. The idea of iceberg! being... | |
 | World - 1883 - 894 pages
...then surge upwards and float away as icebergs. Kane, the Arctic explorer, observes, " Regarded upon a large scale. I am satisfied that the iceberg is...from the parent - glacier, it rises from the sea. The idea of iceRGS< bergs being discharged, so universal among systematic writers and so recently admitted... | |
 | George Frederick Wright - 1889 - 704 pages
...inference from imperfect data by Dr. Kane has doubtless done much to foster this idea. Regarded upon a large scale, I am satisfied that the iceberg is...falling into the sea, broken by its weight from the parentglacier, it rises from the sea. The process is at once gradual and comparatively quiet. The idea... | |
 | George Frederick Wright - 1896 - 730 pages
...inference from imperfect data by Dr. Kane has doubtless done much to foster this idea. Regarded upon a large scale, I am satisfied that the iceberg is not disengaged by debdcle, as I once supposed. So far from falling into the sea, broken by its weight from the parentglacier,... | |
 | George Frederick Wright - 1891 - 698 pages
...inference from imperfect data by Dr. Kane has doubtless done much to foster this idea. Regarded upon a large scale, I am satisfied that the iceberg is not disengaged by debdcle, as I once supposed. So far from falling into the sea, broken by its weight from the parentglacier,... | |
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on a large scale, I am satisfied that the iceberg is not disengaged by debacle, as I once supposed. So far from falling into the sea, broken by its weight from the parent glacier, it rises from the sea; the 
