| 1838 - 654 Seiten
...he best could. Tien it was we beheld the strange and appalling spectacle of what may be fitly termed a submerged berg, fixed low down with one end to the...while the other, with the purchase of a long lever advantageously placed at a right angle with the keel, was slowly rising towards the surfaee. Meanwhile,... | |
| Sir George Back - 1838 - 500 Seiten
...he best could. Then it was we beheld the strange and appalling spectacle of what may be fitly termed a submerged berg, fixed low down with one end to the...while the other, with the purchase of a long lever, advantageously placed at a right angle with the keel, was slowly rising towards the surface. Meanwhile,... | |
| 1838 - 678 Seiten
...peril of all : Then it was we beheld the strange and appalling spectacle of what may be fitly termed a submerged berg, fixed low down with one end to the...while the other, with the purchase of a long lever, advantageously placed at a right angle with the keel, was slowly rising towards the surface. Meanwhile,... | |
| Charles Tomlinson - 1846 - 190 Seiten
...was we beheld the strange and appalling spectacle, of what may be fitly termed a submerged iceberg, fixed low down, with one end to the ship's side, while the other, with the purchase of a long lever, advantageously placed at a right angle with the keel, was slowly rising towards the surface. Meanwhile,... | |
| 1849 - 142 Seiten
...on her side. " Then it was we beheld the strange and appalling spectacle of what may be fitly termed a submerged berg fixed low down, with one end to the...while the other, with the purchase of a long lever advantageously placed at a right angle with the keel, was slowly rising towards the surface. Meanwhile,... | |
| 1854 - 788 Seiten
...over to port. " Then it was we beheld the strange and appalling spectacle of a submerged berg, lixed low down, with one end to the ship's side, while the...the brink of eternity, but there was no confusion j all worked, all did their duty. The boats were lowered, manned, provisioned; everything in readiness... | |
| 1854 - 604 Seiten
...the strange and appalling spectacle of a submerged berg, fixed low down, with one end to the ship s side, while the other, with the purchase of a long...surface."* All rushed on deck. The ship was on her beam-ends, the lee boats touching the water. All felt they trembled on ihe brink of eternity, but there... | |
| Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1854 - 584 Seiten
...on her nde : " Then it was we beheld the strange and appalling spectacle of what may be fitly termed a submerged berg fixed low down, with one end to the...while the other, with the purchase of a long lever, advantageously placed at a rsght angle with the keel, was slowly rising toward the surface. Meanwhile,... | |
| Charles Tomlinson - 1860 - 338 Seiten
...was we beheld the strange and appalling spectacle, of what may be fitly termed a submerged iceberg, fixed low down, with one end to the ship's side, while the other with the purchase of a long lever, advantageously placed at a right angle with the keel, was slowly rising towards the surface. Meanwhile... | |
| Charles Tomlinson - 1872 - 392 Seiten
...was we beheld the strange and appalling spectacle, of what may be fitly termed a submerged iceberg, fixed low down, with one end to the ship's side, while the other with the purchase of a long lever, advantageously placed at a right angle with the keel, was slowly rising towards the surface. Meanwhile... | |
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