 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1812 - Страниц: 314
...of the whole distance being accomplished by one of the parties in an hour and five, and by the other in an hour and ten, minutes. The water was extremely cold from the melting of the mountain-snows. About three weeks before, in April, we had made an attempt, but having ridden all the... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1814 - Страниц: 330
...water was extremely cold from the melting of the mountain-snows. About three weeks before, in April, we had made an attempt, but having ridden all the...Troad the same morning, and the water being of an icy ehillness, we found it necessary to postpone the completion till the frigate anchored below the castles,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1815 - Страниц: 334
...of the whole distance being accomplished by one of the parties in an hour and five, and by the other in an hour and ten, minutes. The water was extremely cold from the melting of the mountain-snows. About three weeks before, in April, we had made an attempt, but having ridden all the... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1815 - Страниц: 230
...of the whole distance being accomplished by one of the parties in an hour and five, and by the other in an hour and ten, minutes. The water was extremely cold from the melting of the mountainsnows. About three weeks before, in April, we had made an attempt, but having ridden all the... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1815 - Страниц: 322
...water was extremely cold from the melting of the mountain-snows. About three weeks before, in April, we had made an attempt, but having ridden all the way from theTroad the same morning, and the water being of an icy dullness, we found it necessary to postpone... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1816 - Страниц: 234
...water was extremely cold from the melting of the mountainsnows. About three weeks before, in April, we had made an attempt, but having ridden all the...postpone the completion till the frigate anchored below the castles, when we swam the straits, as just stated ; entering a considerable way above the... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1817 - Страниц: 226
...of the whole distance being accomplished by one of the parties in an boor and five, and by the other in an hour and ten, minutes. The water was extremely cold from the melting of the mountainsnows. About three weeks before, in April, we had made an attempt, but having ridden all the... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1818 - Страниц: 336
...inountain-sno-.^s. About three weeks before, in April, •vre had made an attempt , hat having r.-dden all the way from the Troad the same morning, and the water being of an icy chijlness, we found it necessary to postpone the completion til! the frigate anchored below the castles,... | |
 | John Watkins - 1822 - Страниц: 452
...the whole distance being accomplished by one of the parties in an hour and five, and by the other, in an hour and ten minutes. The water was extremely...postpone the completion till the frigate anchored below the castles, when we swam the straits, as just stated, entering a considerable way above the... | |
 | John Watkins - 1822 - Страниц: 476
...the whole distance being accomplished by one of the parties in an hour and five, and by the other, in an hour and ten minutes. The water was extremely...postpone the completion till the frigate anchored below the castles, when we swam the straits, as just stated, entering a considerable way above the... | |
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English miles ; though the actual breadth is barely one. The rapidity of the current is such that no boat can row directly across ; and it may in some measure be estimated, from the circumstance of the whole distance being accomplished by one of the parties... 
