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" I will not say it was impossible any where to get farther to the South; but the attempting it would have been a dangerous and rash enterprise, and what, I believe, no man in my situation would have thought of. It was, indeed, my opinion, as well as the... "
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Arranged in ... - Page 255
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The Gallery of Nature and Art; Or, a Tour Through Creation and Science, Volume 4

Edward Polehampton - 1815 - 628 pages
...quite to the pole, (o which they were then within less than nineteen degrees ; or perhaps joined to some land to which it had been fixed from the earliest time ; and that it is to the south of this parallel that all the ice is formed, which is found scattered up and down to the...
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Gallery of Nature and Art, Or a Tour Through Creation and Science ..., Volume 4

Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 588 pages
...quite to the pole, to which they were then within less than nineteen degrees ; or perhaps joined to some land to which it had been fixed from the earliest time ; and that it is to the south of this parallel that all the ice is formed, which is found scattered up and down to the...
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The World Displayed, Or, A Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 10

Voyages and travels - 1815 - 476 pages
...in the Greenland seas, so that no comparison can be drawn between the ice here and there; and it was the opinion of most on board, that this ice extended quite to the pole, to which they were then within less than nineteen degrees; or perhaps joined to some land, to which...
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The Three Voyages of Captain James Cook Round the World. ...

James Cook - Oceania - 1821 - 386 pages
...south ; but the attempting it would have been a dangerous and rash enterprise ; and what* I believe, no man in my situation would have thought of. It was,...ice extended quite to the pole, or, perhaps, joined to some land, to which it had been fixed from the earliest time ; and that it is here, that is to the...
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The Gallery of Nature and Art; Or a Tour Through Creation and Science ...

Edward Polehampton - Natural history - 1821 - 592 pages
...the Greenland seas, so that no comparison can be drawn between the ice here and there ; and it was the opinion of most on board, that this ice extended quite to the pole, to which they were then within less than nineteen degrees ; or perhaps joined to some land to which...
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The Hundred Wonders of the World: And of the Three Kingdoms of Nature ...

Sir Richard Phillips - Curiosities and wonders - 1821 - 768 pages
...quite to the pole, to which they were then within less than nineteen degrees ; or, perhaps, joined to some land to which it had been fixed from the earliest time. Our navigator was of opinion that it is to the south of this parallel that all the ice is formed, which...
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The Cabinet of Curiosities: Or, Wonders of the World Displayed, Forming a ...

Curiosities and wonders - 1824 - 458 pages
...quite to the pole, to which they were theu within less than nineteen degrees ; or, perhaps, joined to some land to which it had been fixed from the earliest time. Our navigator was of opinion that it is to the south of this parallel that all the ice is formed, which...
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An Historical Account of the Circumnavigation of the Globe: And of the ...

Historical account - Discoveries in geography - 1836 - 510 pages
...progress, and he was reluctantly constrained to return. — Weddel's voyage towards the South Pole, p. 37. no man in my situation would have thought of. It was, indeed, mg opinion, as well as the opinion of most on board, that this ice extended quite to the pole, or perhaps...
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The life, voyages, and discoveries, of captain James Cook. [Followed by ...

James Cook - 1837 - 232 pages
...considered it would be a rash and dangerous enterprise to attempt to proceed any further south ; adding, " it was, indeed, my opinion, as well as the opinion...ice extended quite to the pole, or perhaps joined some laud to which it had been fixed from the earliest time; and that it is here, that is, to the south...
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An account of the most remarkable voyages, from the discovery of America by ...

Account - Voyages and travels - 1838 - 304 pages
...south ; but the attempting it would have been a rash and hazardous enterprise, and what, I believe, no man in my situation would have thought of. It was,...ice extended quite to the pole, or perhaps joined to some land to which it had been fixed from the earliest time, and that it is here, that is, to the...
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