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" West from me, neither was there any yse towards the North, but a great sea, free, large, very salt and blue and of an unsearchable depth. "
A Life of John Davis, the Navigator, 1550-1605: Discoverer of Davis Straits - Page 55
by Sir Clements Robert Markham - 1889 - 301 pages
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The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature: A Biographical and ...

John Clark Ridpath - 1899 - 544 pages
...the same towardes the South, not seeing any shore West from me, neither was there any yse towardes the North, but a great sea, free, large, very salt and blue, and of an unsearchable depth. So coasting towardes the South I came to the place wher I left the shippes to fishe but found them...
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Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A History Critical ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers, David Patrick - 1901 - 862 pages
...to coast the same toward the South, not seeing any shore West from me, neither was there any усе ngland, bound in with the triumphant sea, Whose rocky shore be blew, and of an unsearcheable depth. So coasting towards the South I came to the place where I left...
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Chamber's Cyclopædia of English Literature, Volume 1

Robert Chambers - 1902 - 868 pages
...to coast the same toward the South, not seeing any shore West from me, neither was there any усе towards the North, but a great sea, free, large, very salt and blew, and of an unsearcheable depth. So coasting towards the South I came to the place where I left...
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The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques & Discoveries of the ..., Issue 7

Richard Hakluyt - 1904 - 528 pages
...constrained to coast the same toward the South, not seeing any shore West from me, neither was there any yce towards the North, but a great sea, free, large very salt and blew, & of an unsearchable depth : So coasting towards the South I came to the place where I left the...
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Adventurers of the Far North: A Chronicle of the Frozen Seas

Stephen Leacock - 1914 - 188 pages
...back towards the south. ' There was no ice towards the north,' he wrote, in relating his experience, ' but a great sea, free, large, very salt and blue and of an unsearchable depth. It seemed most manifest that the passage was free and without impediment towards the north.' When Davis...
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Chronicles of Canada, Volume 20

George McKinnon Wrong, Hugh Hornby Langton - 1914 - 184 pages
...back towards the south. ' There was no ice towards the north,' he wrote, in relating his experience, ' but a great sea, free, large, very salt and blue and of an unsearchable depth. It seemed most manifest that the passage was free and without impediment towards the north.' When Davis...
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Etah and Beyond: Or, Life Within Twelve Degrees of the Pole

Donald Baxter MacMillan - 1927 - 442 pages
...'Sanderson, his hope of a Northwest Passage,' after Mr. William Sanderson, one of his patrons. He reported 'no ice towards the North, but a great sea, free,...very salt and blue, and of an unsearchable depth.' It was unchanged after three hundred and thirtyseven years. We were on the borders of the dreaded Melville...
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Literature of Travel and Exploration: A to F

Jennifer Speake - 2003 - 516 pages
...("a mighty banke of усе"), and arrived at Mount Raleigh, where he wrote that "there was no усе towards the north, but a great sea, free, large, very salt, and blue, and of an unsearchable depth." Davis then moved southward — noting a "mighty" tidal race at the mouth of what is now called Hudson...
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The London Quarterly Review, Volume 14

William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1860 - 576 pages
...constrained to coast the same towards the south, not seeing any shore west from me, neither was there any yce towards the north, but a great sea, free, large, very salt and blue, and of an unsearchable depth.' He had, nevertheless, seen fair and promising lands to the south-west. In latitude 00° 40• he had...
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