As we rowed towards it with a view of proceeding close to its base, I observed a few little pieces fall from the top, and while my eye was fixed upon the place, an immense column, probably fifty feet square, and one hundred and fifty feet high, began... The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal - Page 2171820Full view - About this book
| 664 pages
...air, are of a greenish-grey colour, and, at a distance, sometimes exhibit the appearance of cliff's of whitish marble. In all cases, the effect of the...a church. It broke into thousands of pieces. This iceberg was full of rents as high as any of our people ascended upon it, extending in a direction particularly... | |
| 1820 - 856 pages
...mountains, which, as they recede from the eye, seem to " rise crag above crag," in endless perspective. shoots of the seaward edge. As we rowed towards it...a church. It broke into thousands of pieces. This iceberg was full of rents as high as any of our people ascended upon it, extending in a direction particularly... | |
| 1821 - 702 pages
...was fixed upon the place, an immense column, probably fifty feet square, and one hundred and titty feet high, began to leave the parent ice at the top,...a church. It broke into thousands of pieces. This iceberg was full of rents as high as any of our people ascended upon it, extending in a direction particularly... | |
| William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1820 - 888 pages
...place, an immense column,, prpbabfy fifty feet square* and, one hundred and fifty feet high, begun to leave the parent ice at the top, and leaning majestically...resembled a church. It broke into thousands of pieces. As we shall have occasion in a week or two to return to this excellent publication, of which this may... | |
| Great Britain - 1820 - 866 pages
...velocity, fell with an awful crash into the sea. rfhe water into which it plunged was converted into au appearance of vapour or smoke, like that from a furious...resembled a church. It broke into thousands of pieces. As we shall have occasion in a week or two to return to this excellent publication, of which this may... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 396 pages
...awful crash into the sea. The water into which it plunged was converted into an appearance of vapor or smoke, like that from a furious cannonading. The...a church. It broke into thousands of pieces. This iceberg was full of rents, as high as any of our people ascended upon it, extending in a direction... | |
| Hugh Murray - Commercial geography - 1837 - 612 pages
...converted into an appearance of vapour or smoke, like that from a furious cannonading. The noise wag equal to that of thunder, which it nearly resembled....and in magnitude resembled a church. It broke into a thousand pieces. This circumstance was a happy caution ; for we might have inadvertently gone to... | |
| Frozen stream - 1846 - 162 pages
...so fortunate as to witness it. " A strong north-westerly swell having for some hours been breaking on the shore, had loosened a number of fragments attached...resembled a church. It broke into thousands of pieces." Almost every iceberg, like every glacier, is covered with masses of stone from the size of a walnut... | |
| Natural phenomena - 1846 - 142 pages
...so fortunate as to witness it. " A strong north-westerly swell having for some hours been breaking on the shore, had loosened a number of fragments attached...resembled a church. It broke into thousands of pieces." Almost every iceberg, like every glacier, is covered with masses of stone from the size of a walnut... | |
| Philip Henry Gosse - 1849 - 396 pages
...the iceberg, and various heaps of broken ice denoted recent shoots of the seaward edge. As we rode towards it, with a view of proceeding close to its...considerable magnitude were continually breaking." * " "Pis sunset : to the firmament serene, The Atlantic wave reflects a gorgeous scene ; Broad in the... | |
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