Journal of a Tour in the State of New York, in the Year 1830: With Remarks on Agriculture in Those Parts Most Eligible for Settlers: and Return to England by the Western Islands, in Consequence of Shipwreck in the Robert FultonWhittaker, Treacher, and Arnot, 1831 - 333 páginas |
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Página 191 - Both these have large seas to the north, which are open during part of the year ; and even when covered with ice, the wind that blows over them is less intensely cold than that which blows over land in the same high latitudes.
Página 155 - Teoronto, or Tche-o-ron.tok, perhaps rather nearer the Indian pronunciation, is the place where the waves breathe and die, or gasp and expire. Let a person of as much discernment as these savages...
Página 311 - ... each acquiring greater velocity, and overtopping the other till they had attained an altitude as much above the level of our eye, as the sea was below it. As the impetus with which the columns were severally propelled diminished, and their ascending...
Página 326 - Fayal, and on the 5th and succeeding days, from twelve to fifteen small volcanoes broke out in the fields we had traversed on the 3d, from the chasms before described, and threw out a quantity of lava, which travelled on slowly towards Vellas. The fire of those small craters subsided. and the lava ceased running about the...