 | 1764 - 598 pages
...fliore, it feemed to foam Jike billows breaking on the (here. When we afcended through the clouds, it was dark ; but when we mounted again, between ten and...miftake until the fun arofe. When we defcended to the clouds, 5n returning from the Pike, and entered within them, they appeared to us as a thick fog or... | |
 | severak hands - 1764 - 590 pages
...fhore, it feemed to foam like billows breaking on the fhore. When we afcended through the clouds, it was dark; but when we mounted again, between ten and eleven, the moon fhonc bright; the clouds were then below us, and about a mile diftant: we took them for the ocean,... | |
 | Juan de Abreu de Galindo, George Glas - 1767 - 490 pages
...fhore, it feemed to foam like billows breaking on *he more. When we afcended through the clouds, it was dark ; but when we mounted again, between ten and...fo near ; nor did we difcover our miftake until the fqn arofe. When we defcended to the clouds, in returning from the Pike, and entered within them, they... | |
 | Juan de Abreu de Galindo - 1767 - 256 pages
...fhore, it feemed to foam like billows breaking on the fhore. When we afcended through the clouds, it was dark ; but when we mounted again, between ten and eleven, the moon fhone bright, the clauds were then below us, and about a mile diftant : we took them for the ocean, and wondered to fee... | |
 | 1803 - 600 pages
...it was dark; but when wa mounted again, between ten and eleven, the moon (hone bright ; the tlonds were then below us, and about a mile diftant ; we...ocean, and wondered to fee it fo near ^ nor did we dUcover our miftake until the fun arofe. When we defcenclcd to the clouds, in returning from the Peak,... | |
 | 1803 - 544 pages
...more, it feemed to foam like billows breaking on the more. When we attended through the clouds, it was dark; but when we mounted again, between ten and eleven, the moon (hone bright ; the clouds were then below us, and about a mile difhnt , we took them for the ocean,... | |
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... furface of them was not quite fo blue and fmooth, but had the appearance of very white wool ; and where this cloudy ocean, as I may call it, touched the fhore, it feemed to foam like billows breaking on *he more. 