After the lapse of three days they returned bringing with them some grapes and some ears of wheat, which grew wild in that region. They continued their course until they came, to a place where a firth penetrated far into the country. Off the mouth of... The Journal of the Royal Geographic Society of London - Page 102by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) - 1838Full view - About this book
| 1838 - 728 pages
...which they called FURDUSTRANDIR. They continued their rourse, until they came to a place, where a frith penetrated far into the country. Off the mouth of...strong currents, which was also the case farther up the frith. On the island there were an immense number of eyder-ducks, so that it was scarcely possible... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1838 - 618 pages
...which they called FURDUSTRANDIR. They continued their course, until they came to a place, where a frith penetrated far into the country. Off the mouth of...strong currents, which was also the case farther up the frith. On the island there were an immense number of eyder-ducks, so that it was scarcely possible... | |
| Carl Christian Rafn - 1841 - 342 pages
...After the lapse of three days they returned, bringing with them some grapes and some ears -of whcat, which grew wild in that region. They continued their...eyderducks, so that it was scarcely possible to walk without trcading on their eggs. They called the island STRAUM-EY (Strenm Isle,) and the firth, SR AUM-FI RDR... | |
| John Frost - 1844 - 494 pages
...which they called FURDUSTRANDIR. They continued their course until they came to a place, where a frith penetrated far into the country. Off the mouth of...strong currents, which was also the case farther up the frith. On the island there were an immense number of eyder-ducks, so that it was scarcely possible... | |
| Jeremy Belknap - 1846 - 384 pages
...which grew wild in that region. They continued their course until they came to a place where a frith penetrated far into the country. Off the mouth of...strong currents, which was also the case farther up the frith. On the island there were an immense number of eider-ducks, so that it was scarcely possible... | |
| Hakluyt Society - 1847 - 352 pages
...still in a south-westerly direction, with the land on the right, they came to a place where a frith penetrated far into the country; off the mouth of it was an island, on which they found an immense number of eyder-ducks, so that it was scarcely possible to walk without... | |
| John Frost - 1851 - 1058 pages
...which they called FURDUSTRANDIR. They continued their course until they came to a place, where a frith penetrated far into the country. Off the mouth of...strong currents, which was also the case farther up the frith. On the island there were an immense number of eyder-ducks, so that it was scarcely possible... | |
| Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1876 - 828 pages
...a SW direction, and explore the country. After the lapse of three days they returned bringing Avith them some grapes and some ears of wheat, which grew...was an island past which there ran strong currents, Avhich was also the case farther up the firth. On the island there were an immense number of eyderducks,... | |
| Edmund Farwell Slafter - 1877 - 198 pages
...them fome grapes and fome ears of wheat, which grew wild in that region. They continued their courfe until they came to a place where a firth penetrated far into the country. Off the mouth of it was an ifland, paft which there ran ftrong currents, which was alfo the cafe farther up the firth. On the... | |
| Edmund Farwell Slafter - 1877 - 186 pages
...them fome grapes and fome ears of wheat, which grew wild in that region. They continued their courfe until they came to a place where a firth penetrated far into the country. Off the mouth of it was an ifland, paft which there ran ftrong currents, which was alfo the cafe farther up the firth. On the... | |
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