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" ESE, close along the lofty perpendicular cliffs of the icy barrier. It is impossible to conceive a more solid-looking mass of ice; not the smallest appearance of any rent or fissure could we discover throughout its whole extent, and the intensely bright... "
New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register - Page 477
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A Voyage of Discovery and Research in the Southern and Antarctic ..., Volume 1

Sir James Clark Ross - 1847 - 478 pages
...progress to the ESE, close along the lofty perpendicular cliffs of the icy barrier. It is impossible to conceive a more solid-looking mass of ice ; not...which dashed their spray high up the face of them. Having sailed along this curious wall of ice in Jan- 29perfectly clear water a distance of upwards...
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Autobiographical Sketch of James Croll ...: With Memoir of His Life and Work

James Croll - 1896 - 570 pages
...if it might be the mother of the great Antarctic bergs, forming, as it does, a vertical cliff; but " not the smallest appearance of any rent or fissure...could we discover throughout its whole extent," and there were only small fragments of ice along its base. Its outer edge was afloat, however, for we found...
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Antarctic Adventure: Scott's Northern Party

Raymond Edward Priestley - 1914 - 648 pages
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Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, Volume 6

New Zealand Institute - 1874 - 638 pages
...good progress to ESE, close along the lofty, perpendicular cliffs of the icy barrier. It is impossible to conceive a more solidlooking mass of ice ; not...the smallest appearance of any rent or fissure could be discovered throughout its whole extent, and the intensely bright sky l>eyond it plainly indicated...
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The Explorers: An Anthology of Discovery

Gerald Roe Crone - 1962 - 394 pages
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Lodestone and Evening Star: The Epic Voyages of Discovery, 1493 B.C.-1896 A.D.

Ian Cameron - 1966 - 312 pages
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Antarctica: Authentic Accounts of Life and Exploration in the World's ...

Charles Neider - 1972 - 516 pages
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Antarctica: The Last Continent

Ian Cameron - 1974 - 264 pages
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Barrow's Boys

Fergus Fleming - 2001 - 542 pages
...might as well sail through the cliffs of Dover as penetrate such a mass ... It would be impossible to conceive a more solid-looking mass of ice; not...great distance to which it reached to the southward.' 42 At 4 pm they turned to follow the Barrier. Mount Erebus, still visible to the west, erupted in spectacular...
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Barrow's Boys

Fergus Fleming - 2001 - 542 pages
...might as well sail through the cliffs of Dover as penetrate such a mass ... It would be impossible to conceive a more solid-looking mass of ice; not...indicated the great distance to which it reached to the southward.'4- At 4 pm they turned to follow the Barrier. Mount Erebus, still visible to the west, erupted...
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