A Summer Search for Sir John Franklin: With a Peep Into the Polar BasinT. Harrison, 1853 - Počet stran: 232 Narrative of author's expedition to Smith Sound region on board 'Isabel', 1852. (AB 7716). |
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A Summer Search for Sir John Franklin: With a Peep Into the Polar Basin Peter C Sutherland,George Dickie,Edward Augustus Inglefield Náhled není k dispozici. - 2018 |
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abundant Adam Beck Admiralty amongst appearance Baffin Bay Barrow Straits Beechey Island bergs BOARD THE DISCOVERY boat bottom breeze cairn Cape Adair Cape Alexander Cape Farewell Cape York CK.S cliffs coast of Baffin Commander Inglefield commenced crew Danish Davis Straits deck Disco Island DISCOVERY SHIP ISABEL distance drifting east Esquimaux examined expedition fathoms feet Fiskernaes floating floe pieces freshened gale glacier Greenhithe Greenland head Hunde Islands ice-masters icebergs inlets Jones Sound Lady Franklin Lancaster Sound land latitude letter Lords Lordships means Melville Bay METEOROLOGICAL JOURNAL miles natives noon northward observed obtained Omenak passed Peterhead Polar reached rocks Roderick Murchison sail screw season seemed seen side Sir Edward Sir John Franklin Smith Sound snow soon south shore South-east Bay southward squadron Standard Barometer steam surface temperature thick tion vessel voyage weather west shore Whale Islands Whale Sound wind winter Wolstenholme Sound
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Strana 103 - Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses. He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.
Strana 174 - The constant rise and fall of the tide exerts great power in detaching these floating ice-islands. By it a hingelike action is set up as soon as the glacier comes within its influence...
Strana 174 - ... the edge of the glacier comes within its influence, and is carried on, although the surface of the sea for many leagues around is covered with one continuous sheet of ice. After summer has set in and somewhat advanced, the surface-ice either drifts away or dissolves, and then we have winds prevailing in a direction contrary to what they had been during the cold season of the year ; and the result of this is a great influx of water into Davis...
Strana 174 - ... regions habitable by man, where they undergo dissolution by the increase of temperature. In Greenland, after descending into the sea through the valleys, they retain their hold of the land * until the buoyant property of water upon ice comes into operation, and then they give birth to icebergs, sometimes of enormous dimensions-!
Strana 178 - ... and when they are impelled along a muddy bottom, they cannot fail to raise moraines and leave deep depressions in its otherwise smooth surface. But it will be well to bear in mind that when an iceberg touches the ground, if that ground be hard and resisting, it must come to a stand ; and the propelling power continuing, a slight leaning over in the water, or yielding motion of the whole mass, may compensate readily for being so suddenly arrested. If, however, the ground be soft, so as not to...
Strana 163 - Davis' Straits, and if the navigator meets with icebergs in the neighbourhood of this promontory, they must have drifted to it from other sources. As we advance northward along the coast of West Greenland, and thus diminish the annual mean temperature both of the sea and of the atmosphere, we find the glacier approaches nearer and nearer the coast-line, until in Melville Bay, lat. 75°, it presents to the sea one continuous wall of ice, unbroken by land, for a space of probably seventy or eighty...
Strana 65 - Sea, and wild thoughts of getting to the Pole — of finding our way to Behring Strait — and most of all, of reaching Franklin and giving him help, rushed rapidly through my brain. A few hours and we should either be secure in our winter quarters, or else plying onward in the unfreezing Polar Basin.
Strana 186 - ... is a well-known fact that the process of congelation separates the saline from the watery particles. I have often observed sea-water freezing when the immersed thermometer stood at 32°, and the ice produced at the time was found to contain little more than a trace of saline matter. But there seems to be no reason why this separation should be confined solely to the act of congelation, since it is owing to the universal law of contraction observed in obedience to cold by, I believe, everything...
Strana 176 - ... of Wolstenholme Sound, the icebergs, that had come off from the three protruding points of the glacier entering it, were so closely planted together, that it was not without some difficulty and even danger we advanced among them although aided by steam. Action of glaciers on the sea-bottom. — The effect of bodies of such dimensions on the rocks and mud at the bottom must be as extensive as it is important.
Strana 168 - Straits. And such we find it, as far as our limited observations can be made available. The month of July 1851, at Cornwallis Island, was found to be three degrees warmer than the same month of the preceding year in a corresponding latitude on the east side of Davis' Straits. This difference is certainly small, but still it is on the favourable side ; and when we associate with it the different structure of the rocks and also the diminished supply of vapour during the winter months, we have a faint...