 | Molyneux St. John - 1877 - 322 pages
...paralleled by any country in the world. Day after day for a whole week, in a vessel of nearly two thousand tons, we threaded an interminable labyrinth of watery...the adjoining ocean, and presenting at every turn an ever shifting combination of rock, verdure, glacier, and snow-capped mountain of unrivalled grandeur... | |
 | Nicholas Flood Davin - 1877 - 750 pages
...islands, promontories, and peninsulas for thousands of miles, the placid water undisturbed by the slighest swell from the adjoining ocean, and presenting at...and snow-capped mountain of unrivalled grandeur and beauty."-f Those capacious and tranquil waters, capable of carrying a line of battle ship, seem gentle,... | |
 | William Leggo - 1878 - 946 pages
...Such a spectacle as its coast line presents is not to be paralleled by any country in the world. Uay after day, for a whole week, in a vessel of nearly...of rock, verdure, forest, glacier, and snow-capped mountains of unrivalled grandeur and beauty. When it is remembered that this wonderful system of navigation... | |
 | Edward Hepple Hall - 1879 - 264 pages
...for a whole week, in a vessel of nearly 3,000 tons, we threaded an interminable labyrinth of watery reaches, that wound endlessly in and out of a network...of rock, verdure, forest, glacier, and snow-capped mountains of unrivalled grandeur and beauty. " One is lost in admiration at the facilities for inter-communication... | |
 | British Columbia - 1880 - 188 pages
...paralleled by any country in the world. Day after day for a whole week, in a vessel of nearly 2,000 tons, we threaded an interminable labyrinth of watery...the adjoining ocean, and presenting at every turn an ever shifting combination of rock, verdure, forest, glacier, and snow-capped mountain of unrivalled... | |
 | 1881 - 336 pages
...for a whole week, in a vessel of nearly 3,000 tons, we threaded an interminable labyrinth of watery reaches, that wound endlessly in and out of a network...of rock, verdure, forest, glacier, and snow-capped mountains of unrivalled grandeur and beauty.' The following approximate measurement of distances between... | |
 | Aeneas McDonell Dawson - 1881 - 256 pages
...nearly 2,000 tons, we threaded an interminable labyrinth of watery lanes and reaches, that wound 135 endlessly in and out of a network of islands, promontories...adjoining ocean, and presenting at every turn, an ever shifting combination of rock, verdure, forest, glacier and snow-capped mountains of unrivalled... | |
 | Frederick Temple Blackwood Marquis of Dufferin and Ava - 1882 - 320 pages
...country in the world. Day after day, for a whole week, in a vessel of nearly 2,000 tons, we threaded a labyrinth of watery lanes and reaches that wound endlessly...of rock, verdure, forest, glacier, and snow-capped mountains of unrivalled grandeur and beauty. When it is remembered that this wonderful system of navigation,... | |
 | British Columbia. Department of Agriculture - 1883 - 146 pages
...Speech at Victoria, 10th September, 1876.) "Such a spectacle as its coast line presents is not to be paralleled by any country in the world. Day after...the adjoining ocean, and presenting at every turn an ever shifting combination of rock, verdure, forest, glacier, and snow-capped mountain of unrivalled... | |
 | Griffith, Farran, Browne and co - 1883 - 392 pages
...country in the world. Day after day, for a whole week, in a vessel of nearly 2000 tons, we threaded a labyrinth of watery lanes and reaches, that wound...of rock, verdure, forest, glacier, and snow-capped mountains of unrivalled grandeur and beauty. When it is remembered that this wonderful system of navigation,... | |
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Uay after day, for a whole week, in a vessel of nearly 2000 tons, we threaded an interminable labyrinth of watery lanes and reaches that wound endlessly in and out of a network of islands, promontories, and peninsulas for thousands of miles, unruffled... 
