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" side, fresh lanes of water were continually forming, and extending in every direction in the field of ice behind us. With a painful feeling of the impossibility of overcoming the obstacles which Nature opposed to us, our last hope vanished of discovering... "
The Great White North: The Story of Polar Exploration from the Earliest ... - Page 18
by Helen Saunders Wright - 1910 - 489 pages
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 66

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1840 - 658 pages
...the floating pieces of ice, we should not have found firm footing upon our arrival. Even on our own side fresh lanes of water were continually forming,...in every direction in the field of ice behind us. We could go no further. ' With a painful feeling of the impossibility of overcoming the obstacles which...
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Narrative of an expedition to the polar sea, in 1820, 1821,1822 & 1823 ...

Ferdinand Petrovich Vrangel' - 1840 - 568 pages
...the floating pieces of ice, we should not have found firm footing upon our arrival. Even on our own side fresh lanes of water were continually forming,...in every direction in the field of ice behind us. We could go no further. With a painful feeling of the impossibility of overcoming the obstacles which...
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The Dublin Review, Volumes 9-10

1840 - 1176 pages
...the floating pieces of ice, we should not have found firm footing upon our arrival. Even on our own side fresh lanes of water were continually forming...in every direction in the field of ice behind us. \Ve could go no further. " With a painful feeling of the impossibility of overcoming the obstacles...
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The Dublin Review, Volume 10

Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1841 - 600 pages
...continually fornming and extending imm every direction in the field of ice behind us. We could go no further. With a painful feeling of the impossibility of overcoming...the obstacles which nature opposed to us, our last imope vanished of discovering the land, which we yet believed to exist. We saw ourselves compelled...
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Narrative of an expedition to the polar sea, in 1820, 1821,1822 & 1823 ...

Ferdinand Petrovich Vrangel' - 1844 - 560 pages
...the floating pieces of ice, we should not have found firm footing upon our arrival. Even on our own side fresh lanes of water were continually forming,...in every direction in the field of ice behind us. We could go no further. With a painful feeling of the impossibility of overcoming the obstacles which...
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Chambers's papers for the people, Parts 1-6

Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1850 - 794 pages
...the floating pieces of ice, we should not have found firm footing upon our arrival. Even on our own side, fresh lanes of water were continually forming,...discovering the land, which we yet believed to exist. We saw ourselves compelled to renounce the object for which we had striven through three years of hardships,...
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Chambers's Papers for the People, Volumes 3-4

1856 - 610 pages
...the floating pieces of ice, we should not have found firm footing upon our arrival. Even on our own side, fresh lanes of water were continually forming,...discovering the land, which we yet believed to exist. We saw ourselves compelled to renounce the object for which we had striven through three years of hardships,...
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Proceedings, Volume 17

American Association for the Advancement of Science - American periodicals - 1869 - 444 pages
...the waves with awful violence against the edge of the field on the farther side of the channel before us. . . . With a painful feeling of the impossibility...obstacles which nature opposed to us, our last hope now vanished of discovering the land which we still believed to exist; and we saw ourselves compelled...
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Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement ..., Volumes 17-18

American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1869 - 790 pages
...the waves with awful violence against the edge of the field on the farther side of the channel before us. . . . With a painful feeling of the impossibility...obstacles which nature opposed to us, our last hope now vanished of discovering the land which we still believed to exist; and we saw ourselves compelled...
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The polar world

Georg Ludwig Hartwig - Antarctica - 1869 - 614 pages
...pieces of ice, we should not have found firm footing upon our arrival. Even on our own side fresh lines of water were continually forming, and extending in every direction in the field of ice behind us. We could go no further. With a painful feeling of the impossibility of overcoming the obstacles which...
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