Arctic Miscellanies: A Souvenir of the Late Polar SearchColburn and Company, 1852 - Всего страниц: 347 Articles from the ship's newspaper, Aurora Borealis, published monthly on the 'Assistance', Captain H.T. Austin, during the Franklin search of 1850-51. Marginal notes by James Donnot, surgeon. |
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... beautiful island , covered with a hundred towns and villages , and peopled by a race of Christians , primitive in the extreme , and enjoying a state of civilization far B 2 ARCTIC MISCELLANIES . 3 vices. It will amuse and instruct, and ...
... beautiful island , covered with a hundred towns and villages , and peopled by a race of Christians , primitive in the extreme , and enjoying a state of civilization far B 2 ARCTIC MISCELLANIES . 3 vices. It will amuse and instruct, and ...
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... beautiful emerald - green , and its surface of a shining smoothness , surpass- ing the most polished alabaster , and you may form some slight idea of the architectural beauties of this icy temple , the wonderful workmanship of time and ...
... beautiful emerald - green , and its surface of a shining smoothness , surpass- ing the most polished alabaster , and you may form some slight idea of the architectural beauties of this icy temple , the wonderful workmanship of time and ...
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... beautiful tints blended together so successfully , were procured by the aid of three primitive colours only . Great praise is also due to those officers , who laboured so zealously in getting up other detailed parts of the scenery and ...
... beautiful tints blended together so successfully , were procured by the aid of three primitive colours only . Great praise is also due to those officers , who laboured so zealously in getting up other detailed parts of the scenery and ...
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... beautiful , though anxious creations of poetic imagination , this mountain of Meru , of which the poet says , " Earth seems that pinnacle to rear Sublime , above this earthly sphere , Its cradle , and its altar , and its throne , " is ...
... beautiful , though anxious creations of poetic imagination , this mountain of Meru , of which the poet says , " Earth seems that pinnacle to rear Sublime , above this earthly sphere , Its cradle , and its altar , and its throne , " is ...
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... beautiful country we had left , and con- trasted it with the one now before us ; others hailed it with the same enthusiasm as did that noble convert to Christianity , the venerable Thorgils , who , flying from the persecution which the ...
... beautiful country we had left , and con- trasted it with the one now before us ; others hailed it with the same enthusiasm as did that noble convert to Christianity , the venerable Thorgils , who , flying from the persecution which the ...
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