| 1846 - 594 pages
...at the manner in which the people of New England have, of late, carried on the whale fishery. Whilst we are looking for them beneath the Arctic Circle,...that they have pierced into the opposite region of the polar cold ; that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south.... | |
| Erasmus Darwin North - 1846 - 454 pages
...|| penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses / of H udson's Bay, || andDavis's Straits, / whilst we are looking for them || beneath the Arctic circle,...that they have pierced || into the opposite region of po\ [lar cold ; that they are at the Antipodes; and engaged under the Frozen Serpe nt |j oftheSouth.\... | |
| James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell - 1847 - 372 pages
...them (in the language of Burke) "penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson bay and Davis Straits. While we are looking for them beneath the...have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold. We know that while some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others... | |
| 1848 - 580 pages
...mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis' Straits ; while we are looking for them beneath the...have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold j that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland Island,... | |
| James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell (Q.), William MacCreary Burwell - 1850 - 630 pages
...them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits ; while we arc looking for them beneath the Arctic Circle, we hear...region of polar cold ; that they are at the antipodes arid engaged under the frozen serpent of the South. Falkland Islands, which seemed too remote and romantic... | |
| 324 pages
...them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay, and Davis's Straits; whilst we arc looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear...that they have pierced into the opposite region of the polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south.... | |
| Francis Lieber - 1851 - 544 pages
...(1774), " in which the New England people carry on the whale fishery. While we follow them among ther tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating...circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite regipn of polar cold ; tjiat they, are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen Serpent of the... | |
| William Henry Seward - 1852 - 48 pages
...ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the Arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite-region of Polar cold—that they are at the Antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent... | |
| James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow - 1852 - 492 pages
...Hudson's Bay and Davis' Straits ; while we arr lookirs for them beneath the Arctic Circle, we hear thai they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold ; that they arc at the antipodes and curççtd under the frozen serpent of the South. Falkland Islands, which seemed... | |
| Haölé, George Washington Bates - 1854 - 506 pages
...mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis' s Straits — while we are looking for them beneath...have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold. * * * No sea but what is vexed with their fisheries — no climate that is not witness of their toils.... | |
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