| 1840 - 1176 pages
...continually forming and extending in every direction in the field of ice behind us. We could go no further. " With a painful feeling of the impossibility of overcoming...discovering the land, which we yet believed to exist. We saw ourselves compelled to renounce the object for which we had striven through three years of hardships,... | |
| Ferdinand Petrovich Vrangel' - 1840 - 568 pages
...continually forming, and extending in every direction in the field of ice behind us. We could go no further. With a painful feeling of the impossibility of overcoming...discovering the land, which we yet believed to exist. We saw ourselves compelled to renounce the object for which we had striven through three years of hardships,... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1840 - 658 pages
...forming, and extending in every direction in the field of ice behind us. We could go no further. 1 With a painful feeling of the impossibility of overcoming...discovering the land, which we yet believed to exist. We saw ourselves compelled to renounce the object for which we had striven through three years of hardships,... | |
| John George Cochrane - 1840 - 510 pages
...forms of rivers rushing in different directions through a continent of ice. We could not go farther ! " With a painful feeling of the impossibility of overcoming...opposed to us, our last hope vanished of discovering the enigmatical land, of the existence of which it was still not allowed us to doubt. We saw ourselves... | |
| 1840 - 544 pages
...forms of rivera rushing in different directions through a continent of ice. We could go no farther ! " With a painful feeling of the impossibility of overcoming...opposed to us, our last hope vanished of discovering the enig. matical land, of the existence of which it was still not allowed us to doubt. We saw ourselves... | |
| Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - American periodicals - 1840 - 514 pages
...forms of rivers rushing in different directions through a continent of ice. We could not go further ! " With a painful feeling of the impossibility of overcoming...opposed to us, our last hope vanished of discovering the enigmatical land, of the existence of which it was slill not allowed us to duubt. We saw ourselves... | |
| Ferdinand Petrovich baron Wrangel - Arctic regions - 1841 - 328 pages
...forming, and extending themselves in every direction in the field behind us. We could go no farther. With a painful feeling of the impossibility of overcoming...obstacles which nature opposed to us, our last hope now vanished of discovering the land which we still believed to exist ; and we saw ourselves compelled... | |
| Ferdinand Petrovich Vrangel' - 1844 - 560 pages
...from the main-land, in a direct line, was 105 wersts. We had 22j fathoms water, with a clay bottom. overcoming the obstacles which nature opposed to us,...discovering the land, which we yet believed to exist. We saw ourselves compelled to renounce the object for which we had striven through three years of hardships,... | |
| 1845 - 356 pages
...continually forming, and extending in every direction in the field of ice behind us. We could go no further. With a painful feeling of the impossibility of overcoming...discovering the land, which we yet believed to exist. We saw ourselves compelled to renounce the object for which we had striven through three years of hardships,... | |
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1850 - 794 pages
...continually forming, and extending in every direction in the field of ice behind us. With a painfol feeling of the impossibility of overcoming the obstacles...discovering the land, which we yet believed to exist. We saw ourselves compelled to renounce the object for which we had striven through three years of hardships,... | |
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