 | John Farmer - New Hampshire - 1824 - 492 pages
...of the whole distance heing accomplished hy one of the parties in an hour and five, and hy the other in an hour and ten minutes. The water was extremely cold from the melting of the mountain snows. — Ahout tbree weeks hefore, we had made an attempt, hut having ridden ail the way from the Troad... | |
 | Great Britain - 1825 - 494 pages
...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... | |
 | George Clinton (biographer of Byron.) - 1825 - 314 pages
...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...Troad the same morning, and the water being of an icy chilness, we found it necessary to postpone the completion till the frigate anchored below the castles,... | |
 | Poets, English - 1825 - 454 pages
...whole distance being accomplished by one of the party in an hour and five minutes, and by the other in an hour and ten minutes. The water was extremely...had made an attempt ; but having ridden all the way 132 INSTANCES OF SKILL from the Troad the same morning, and the water being of an icy dullness, we... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1825 - 238 pages
...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, \ve had made an aU tempt, but having ridden all... | |
 | Alexander Kilgour (M.D.) - 1825 - 234 pages
...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 at* tempt, but having ridden all... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1825 - 546 pages
...I lie 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. If, when the wintry tempest roar'd, He sped to Hero, nothing loth, And thus of old... | |
 | George Clinton - Poets, English - 1825 - 826 pages
...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 melling of the mountain snows. About three weeks before, we had made an attempt ; but having ridden... | |
 | Richard Ryan - Poetry - 1826 - 320 pages
...her favour. He afterwards committed many extravagances, and died in 1229. ANCIENT SIGNIFICATION OF WORDS. THE different sense of the same words, in different...Troad the same morning, and the water being of an icy dullness, we found it necessary to postpone the completion till the frigate anchored between the castles,... | |
 | Richard Ryan - Poetry - 1826 - 328 pages
...following lines : — " Ye who, perchance, behold this simple urn, Pass on — it honours none yon wish to mourn ; — To mark a friend's remains these...Troad the same morning, and the water being of an icy dullness, we found it necessary to postpone the completion till the frigate anchored between the castles,... | |
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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... 
