 | Asia - 1835 - 612 pages
...have felt an undetiimble kind of disappointment at the unromantic character of so mysterious a spot. The land at this place is very low near the coast,...we could do little ourselves towards this end, it wa* our business to submit, and to be content in noting by mathematical numbers and sign*, as with... | |
 | Commerce - 1840 - 572 pages
...mountain of iron, or a magnet as big as Mont Blane. But Nature had erected no monument to denote the spot she had chosen as the centre of one of her great and dark powers." The widest part of the peninsula of Boothia is ascertained to be but fifteen miles wide, of which ten... | |
 | Sir John Leslie, Robert Jameson, Hugh Murray - Arctic regions - 1845 - 440 pages
...there was merely a low flat coast, rising about a mile inland into ridges fifty or sixty feet high. " Nature had here erected no monument to denote the...as the centre of one of her great and dark powers." The commander, notwithstanding, placed upon it a flag, and to the locality has since been assigned... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1848 - 892 pages
...discoverer was natural, that a place so important had possessed more of mark or note, but Nature had erected no monument to denote the spot which she had...the centre of one of her " great and dark powers." A cairn of some magnitude was constructed by the adventurers, upon which the British flag was planted,... | |
 | Periodicals - 1850 - 762 pages
...He looked in vain for some objjct to mark the spot. " Nature had here erected no monument to donóte the spot which she had chosen as the centre of one of her 'great and dark powers " Commander Ross erected a pile of stones and returned to the ship. The summer of 1831 now arrived,... | |
 | Jabez Hogg - Physics - 1853 - 390 pages
...pole was an object as conspicuous and mysterious as the fabled mountain of Sinbad, that it was even a mountain of iron, or a magnet as large as Mont Blanc....as the centre of one of her great and dark powers " The necessary observations were immediately commenced The place of the observatory was as near to... | |
 | Mary Gillies - Arctic regions - 1860 - 394 pages
...finding it, published in Captain Ross's narrative of his voyage, and will read you the passage : — " The land at this place is very low near the coast,...centre of one of her great and dark powers." " And how did Sir James Ross know that he had found the place ? " " He had been making observations with... | |
 | James Alex Browne - Arctic regions - 1860 - 120 pages
...Pole and its adjoining territory, in the name of Great Britain and King William the Fourth. But as "Nature had here erected no monument to denote the...as the centre of one of her great and dark powers," they erected a cairn of some magnitude, and placed in it a record of the fact.* On the 29th May, 1832,... | |
 | Sir John Leslie, Hugh Murray, Robert Michael Ballantyne - Arctic regions - 1860 - 696 pages
...there was merely a low flat coast, rising about a mile inland into ridges fifty or sixty feet high. " Nature had here erected no monument to denote the...as the centre of one of her great and dark powers." The commander, notwithstanding, placed upon it a flag, and to the locality has since been assigned... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1860 - 896 pages
...discoverer was natural, that a place so important had possessed more of mark or note, but Nature had erected no monument to denote the spot which she had...the centre of one of her " great and dark powers." A cairn of some magnitude was constructed by the adventurers, upon which the British flag was planted,... | |
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Sinbad, that it even was a mountain of iron, or a magnet as large as Mont Blanc. But nature had here erected no monument to denote the spot which she had chosen as the centre of one of her great and dark powers... 
