The Quarterly Review, Volume 92William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1852 |
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... Islands . The expedition under Captain Ommaney and Lieut . Osborn south - west of Cape Walker determined nothing . The cape was found to be the north - eastern extremity of an island , separated from the continent by a narrow channel ...
... Islands . The expedition under Captain Ommaney and Lieut . Osborn south - west of Cape Walker determined nothing . The cape was found to be the north - eastern extremity of an island , separated from the continent by a narrow channel ...
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... Island ? M'Clintock . - Yes . ' When Parry himself was off the east end of Melville Island , he found his soundings uniformly increase as he went to the south . " In standing to the southward , we had gradually deepened the soundings to ...
... Island ? M'Clintock . - Yes . ' When Parry himself was off the east end of Melville Island , he found his soundings uniformly increase as he went to the south . " In standing to the southward , we had gradually deepened the soundings to ...
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... Island ' the sea appeared in all its majesty , entirely free from ice , and without any visible obstruction to its navigation , and never was a prospect more gratifying than that which lay open to us . ' Then he had ardently wished for ...
... Island ' the sea appeared in all its majesty , entirely free from ice , and without any visible obstruction to its navigation , and never was a prospect more gratifying than that which lay open to us . ' Then he had ardently wished for ...
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