... in foggy weather, they are particularly dangerous, as their motions cannot then be distinctly observed. It may easily be imagined, that the strongest ship is but an insignificant impediment between two fields in motion. Numbers of vessels, since the... Annual Register - Page 1327edited by - 1822Full view - About this book
| Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1819 - 550 pages
...more withstand the shock of the contact of two fields, than a sheet of paper can stop a musket-ball. Numbers of vessels, since the establishment of the...ice: some have had their hulls completely torn open; and others have been buried beneath the heaped fragments of the ice.'"— ' " In the month of May 1813,... | |
| England - 1818 - 764 pages
...mote withstand the shock of the contact of two fields, than a sheet of paper can stop a musket-ball. Numbers of vessels, since the establishment of the...ice, some have had their hulls completely torn open, and others have been buried beneath the heaped fragments of the ice." p. 279. It is surprising, that... | |
| History - 1818 - 798 pages
...more withstand the shock of the contact of two fields, than a sheet of paper can stop a musket-ball. Numbers of vessels, since the establishment of the...ice, some have had their hulls completely torn open, and others have been buried beneath the heaped fragments of the ice. In the year 1804, I had a good... | |
| John Laing (Surgeon) - Arctic regions - 1818 - 190 pages
...more withstand the shock of the contact of two fields, than a sheet of paper can stop a musket ball. Numbers of vessels, since the establishment of the...ice; some have had their hulls completely torn open ; and others have been buried beneath the heaped fragments of the ice. " In the year 1804, 1 had a... | |
| Wernerian Natural History Society, Edinburgh - Natural history - 1818 - 516 pages
...more withstand the shock of the contact of two fields, than a sheet of paper can stop a musket-ball. Numbers of vessels, since the establishment of the...ice, some have had their hulls completely torn open, and others have been buried beneath the heaped fragments of the ice. In the year 1 804, I had a good... | |
| English literature - 1820 - 608 pages
...since the establishment uf the fishery, have been thus destroyed ; some have been thrown upon the ire, some have had their hulls completely torn open, or...ships, among the ice, in one year. In the season of 1ÙII4, fourteen of their ships were wrecked, and eleven more remained beset during the winter. " In... | |
| Europe - 1821 - 726 pages
...more withstand the shock of the contact of two fields, than a sheet of paper can stop a musket-ball. Numbers of vessels, since the establishment of the...ice, some have had their hulls completely torn open, and others have been buried beneath the heaped fragments of the ice." " The term icebergs has commonly... | |
| History - 1822 - 768 pages
...establishment of the fishery, have been ti • destroyed; some have been thrown upon the ice, some have bad their hulls completely torn open, or divided in two,...more remained beset during the winter. In the year 1804, I had a good opportunity of witnessing the effects produced by the lesser masses in motion. Passing... | |
| History - 1822 - 766 pages
...fields in motion. Numbers of vessels, since the establishment of the fishery, have, been thus 1333 destroyed; some have been •thrown upon the ice,...ships, among the ice, in .one year. In the season of 1 684, fourteen of their ships were wrecked, and eleven more re^nained beset during the winter. . In... | |
| History - 1822 - 764 pages
...fields in motion. Numbers of vessels, since the establishment of the iishviT; have been thus tlestroyed; some have been thrown upon the ice, some have had...ships, among the ice, in one year. In the season of 1 684, fourteen of their ships were wrecked, and eleven more remained beset during the winter. In the... | |
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