 In the afternoon the floes began to move, the lane was closed up, and the edges of the ice coming in contact with so much pressure, threatened the demolition of the narrow space which separated us from the line of fracture. Fortunately,, the floes again...  Congressional Serial Set - Page 351851Full view - About this book
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 574 pages
...demolition of the narrow space which separated us from the line of frao -ture; fortunately the floes again separated and assumed a motion by which the...seven hundred yards, where she came to a stand. Our sloros that were on the ice were on thy same side of the crack as the Rescue, and of course were carried... | |
 | LIEUT SHERARD OSBORN - 1852 - 330 pages
...demolition of the narrow space which separated us from the line of fracture. Fortunately,, the floes again separated, and assumed a motion by which the...to the port bow, and increased her distance from us TOO yards, where she came to a stand. Our stores that were on the ice, were on the same side of the... | |
 | Peter Lund Simmonds - Arctic regions - 1852 - 424 pages
...demolition of the narrow space which separated us from the line of fracture. Fortunately, the floes again separated, and assumed a motion by which the...to the port bow, and increased her distance from us 709 yards, where she came to a stand. Our stores that were on the ice were on the same side of the... | |
 | Elisha Kent Kane - Science - 1854 - 642 pages
...narrow space which separated us from the line of fracture. Fortunately OFFICIAL REPORT. 503 the floes again separated, and assumed a motion by which the...to the port bow, and increased her distance from us 700 yards, where she came to a stand. Our stores that were on the ice were on the same side of the... | |
 | Samuel Mosheim Smucker - Arctic regions - 1857 - 1074 pages
...demolition of the narrow space which separated us from the line of fracture. Fortunately, the floes aga.n separated, and assumed a motion by which the Rescue...to the port bow, and increased her distance from us 709 yards, where she came to a stand. Our stores that were on the ice were on the same side of the... | |
 | Samuel Mosheim Smucker - Arctic regions - 1886 - 682 pages
...demolition of the narrow space which sepa rated us from the line of fracture. Fortunately, the floes aga.n separated, and assumed a motion by which the Rescue...to the port bow, and increased her distance from us 709 yards, where she came to a stand. Our stores that were on the ice were on the same side of the... | |
 | Edgar Stanton Maclay - 1894 - 734 pages
...demolition of the narrow space which separated us from the line of fracture. Fortunately, the floes again separated, and assumed a motion by which the...to the port bow, and increased her distance from us seven hundred yards, when she came to a stand. Our stores that were on the ice were on the same side... | |
 | Edgar Stanton Maclay - History - 1898 - 706 pages
...demolition of the narrow space which separated us from the line of fracture. Fortunately, the floes again separated, and assumed a motion by which the...to the port bow, and increased her distance from us seven hundred yards, when she came to a stand. Our stores that were on the ice were on the same side... | |
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