 | John Davis - 1823 - 416 pages
...the Frozen Serpent of the South. Falkland Islands, which seemi too remote and romantic an object fur the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and...progress of their victorious industry. Nor is the «,•••'•noctial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of both the poles.... | |
 | William Newnham Blane - History - 1824 - 532 pages
...that they are at the Whale Fithery. 469 antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic...discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of the polesj We know that while some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa,... | |
 | United States - 1833 - 670 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... | |
 | Salma Hale - America - 1827 - 490 pages
...polar cold; that they are at the c. o 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... | |
 | Salma Hale - America - 1827 - 314 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...the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting place in the progress of their victorious industry. 27. " Nor is the equinoctial heat more... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - Great Britain - 1829 - 616 pages
...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,... | |
 | Christianity - 1829 - 622 pages
...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 Hrazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries,... | |
 | Josiah Conder - Canada - 1829 - 466 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...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.... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - American literature - 1830 - 334 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.... | |
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Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the Arctic Circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland... 
