| Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1814 - 652 pages
...of Spitsbergen, in latitude 80 deg. 27min. It is highly probable that they extend their migrations under the very pole itself, amid the silent desolation of unknown countries, shut out since creation from the prying eye of man, by everlasting and insuperable barriers of ice. That such places... | |
| Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte - Birds - 1831 - 344 pages
...dreary coast of Spitzbergen, in lat. 80° 27'. It is highlyprobable that they extend their migrations under the very pole itself, amid the silent desolation of unknown countries, shut out since creation from the prying eye of man by everlasting and insuperable barriers of ice. That such places... | |
| Edward Turner Bennett - Birds - 1831 - 346 pages
...more than 80° of latitude ; and Wilson deems it " highly probable that they extend their migrations under the very pole itself, amid the silent desolation of unknown countries, shut out since creation from the prying ey.e of man by everlasting and insuperable barriers of ice." It is not unlikely... | |
| Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - Natural history - 1831 - 358 pages
...of Spitsbergen, feeding on the water's edge. It is highly probable that they extend their migrations under the very pole itself, amid the silent desolation of unknown countries, shut out from the eye of man by everlasting barriers of ice. That such places abound with suitable food we cannot... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Geography - 1832 - 1028 pages
...of Spitzbergen, feeding on the water's edge. It is highly probable that they extend their migrations under the very pole itself, amid the silent desolation of unknown countries, shut out from the eye of man by everlasting barriers of ice That such places abound with suitable food, we cannot... | |
| Birds - 1834 - 700 pages
...of Spitsbergen, feeding on the water's edge. It is highly probable that they extend their migrations under the very pole itself, amid the silent desolation of unknown countries, shut out from the eye of man by everlasting barriers of ice. That such places abound with suitable food, we... | |
| Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) - Birds - 1835 - 604 pages
...winter, where, as the author of American Ornithology observes, they have been rearing their young " under the very pole itself, amid the silent desolation of unknown countries, shut out since creation from the prying eye of man by everlasting and insuperable barriers of ice. That such places... | |
| 1836 - 496 pages
...more than 80° of latitude ; and Wilson deems it " highly probable that they extend their migrations under the very pole itself, amid the silent desolation of unknown countries, shut out since oreation from the prying eye of man by everlasting and insuperable barriers of ice." It is not unlikely... | |
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