| Daniel Ricketson - 1858 - 426 pages
...of polar cold — that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic...progress of their victorious industry. Nor is the equatorial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We know that... | |
| George Bancroft - 1858 - 454 pages
...region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic...the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting place in the progress of their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial .heat more discouraging... | |
| GEORGE BANOROIT - 1858 - 450 pages
...region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic...the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting place in the progress of their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging... | |
| LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY - 1858 - 448 pages
...region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south, Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic...the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting place in the progress of their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging... | |
| 1859 - 370 pages
...under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an-object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage...the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazjl. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries :... | |
| Samuel Greene Arnold - 1860 - 606 pages
...region of polar cold, that they arc at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic...the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game nlong the coast of Brazil. No soa but what is vexed by their fisheries.... | |
| Harry Franklin Covington - 1918 - 312 pages
...region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic...the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries.... | |
| Godfrey Locker Lampson - 1918 - 628 pages
...region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic...the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries.... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1919 - 336 pages
...region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen Serpent of the South. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic...the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting, place in the progress of their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging... | |
| Clarence Stratton - 1920 - 364 pages
...that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen Serpent of the South. Falkland Islands, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for...the coast of Africa, others run the longitude and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries;... | |
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