Enterprise, Industry and Art of Man: As Displayed in Fishing, Hunting, Commerce, Navigation, Mining, Agriculture and ManufacturesBradbury, Soden and Company, 1845 - 335 páginas |
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... feet , and at length one of the large circular figures stood erect , and with goggling eyes and enormous mouth , addressed me as follows : - " I was born upon the backs of sheep that were fed in Asia Minor ; I was spun by those who pray ...
... feet , and at length one of the large circular figures stood erect , and with goggling eyes and enormous mouth , addressed me as follows : - " I was born upon the backs of sheep that were fed in Asia Minor ; I was spun by those who pray ...
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... feet , and sometimes reaches even eighty feet ; its great- est circumference is from thirty to fifty feet . It 14 THE WHALE FISHERY .
... feet , and sometimes reaches even eighty feet ; its great- est circumference is from thirty to fifty feet . It 14 THE WHALE FISHERY .
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... feet of the tail , beyond which it becomes somewhat quadrangular . The head has rather a triangular shape . The under part of this is flat ; it measures sixteen or twenty feet in length , and ten or twelve in breadth . The lips extend ...
... feet of the tail , beyond which it becomes somewhat quadrangular . The head has rather a triangular shape . The under part of this is flat ; it measures sixteen or twenty feet in length , and ten or twelve in breadth . The lips extend ...
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... feet weighs sev- enty tons , and will yield six or seven thousand gallons of oil . The spermaceti whale or cachelot , differs in several respects from the other species . It is somewhat smaller , and feeds in a different manner . The ...
... feet weighs sev- enty tons , and will yield six or seven thousand gallons of oil . The spermaceti whale or cachelot , differs in several respects from the other species . It is somewhat smaller , and feeds in a different manner . The ...
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... feet of water , kept the boat by the pressure of the line against it , at such a consider- able distance , as prevented the crew from leaping upon the floe . Some of them were , therefore , put to the necessity of swimming for their ...
... feet of water , kept the boat by the pressure of the line against it , at such a consider- able distance , as prevented the crew from leaping upon the floe . Some of them were , therefore , put to the necessity of swimming for their ...
Términos y frases comunes
adventurers afterwards America animals annually appeared attack bear Beef Island boat Brazil Britain British brought buffaloes called Captain caravan carried cattle China coal coast commerce Company cotton crew diamonds discovered discovery distance Dutch East employed England English enterprise Europe exported extent feet fire fish fishery four fur trade furs gold harpoon head herd horses Hudson's Bay Company hundred hunters hunting immense Indians Indies iron island killed labor land length Magellan manufacture Mecca merchants metal miles millions of dollars miners mines natives navigation nearly Northwest Company Nova Zembla Ormuz passage passage to India Peru Porto Bello Portuguese pounds produced pursued quantity quarter regions river rock rope round sailed salt savanna ship shore silk silver skin sometimes soon South America Spaniards spermaceti Spitzbergen Straits supply surface thousand tion tons trade vessels voyage whale fishery whole wood
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Página 36 - Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them, than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on 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. No climate that is not witness to their toils.
Página 62 - Few friends to cheer him through his dangerous life, And none to aid him in the stormy strife ; Companion of the sea and silent air, The lonely fisher thus must ever fare ; Without the comfort, hope — with scarce a friend, He looks through life, and only sees — its end!
Página 36 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's 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.
Página 233 - Storrs very justly remarks, in his representation presented by Colonel Benton, in 1825, to the United States Senate, the Indians are always willing to compromise' when they find that they cannot rob ' without losing the lives of their warriors, which they hardly ever risk, unless for revenge or in open warfare.
Página 77 - ... not an animal is to be seen ; and the stems of the thistles are so close to each other, and so strong, that independent of the prickles with which they are armed, they form an impenetrable barrier. The sudden growth of these plants is quite astonishing ; and though it would be an unusual misfortune in military history, yet it is really possible that, an invading army, unacquainted with this country, might be imprisoned by these thistles, before it had time to escape from them.
Página 76 - ... from green to brown; but the first region varies with the four seasons of the year in a most extraordinary manner. In winter, the leaves of the thistles are large and luxuriant, and the whole surface of the country has the rough appearance of a turnipfield. The clover in this season is extremely rich and strong; and the sight of the wild cattle grazing in full liberty on such pasture is very beautiful. In spring, the clover has vanished, the...
Página 63 - Arctic circle : there they continue many months in order to recruit themselves after the fatigue of spawning, the seas within that space swarming with insect food in a far greater degree than in our . warmer latitudes.
Página 76 - The clover in this season is extremely rich and strong; and the sight of the wild cattle grazing in full liberty on such pasture is very beautiful. In spring, the clover has vanished, the leaves of the thistles have extended along the ground, and the country still looks like a rough crop of turnips. In less than a month the change is most extraordinary; the whole region becomes a luxuriant wood of enormous thistles...
Página 256 - From the mouth of the mine to the temporary residence allotted them, the whole way was illuminated. The engineers, pupils, and the workmen, with the National Guard under arms, were drawn up in two lines to form a passage ; and thus, in the midst of a religious silence, did these poor fellows traverse an attentive and sympathizing crowd, who, as they passed along, inclined their heads, as a sort of respect and honor to their sufferings. Such are the affecting particulars of an event, during the whole...
Página 76 - In spring the clover has vanished, the leaves of the thistles have extended along the ground, and the country still looks like a rough crop of turnips. In less than a month the change is most extraordinary ; the whole region becomes a luxuriant wood of enormous thistles, which have suddenly shot up to the height of ten or eleven feet, and are all in full bloom.