. Discovery and adventure in the polar seas and regions [microform] : with illustrations of their climate, geology, and natural history. Franklin, John, Sir, 1786-1847; Franklin, John, Sir, 1786-1847; Natural history; Sciences naturelles. EXPEDITIONS TO THE SEAS AROUND BOOTHIA. SGo r^-traced, for some time, their outward route. The chap, x weather now became unsettled and severe, and confined them during four days to one spot. But on the 6th of September, when better weather had returned, they struck from the EUice River twenty-two miles north- The sea off north-westward to . n extensive islan
. Discovery and adventure in the polar seas and regions [microform] : with illustrations of their climate, geology, and natural history. Franklin, John, Sir, 1786-1847; Franklin, John, Sir, 1786-1847; Natural history; Sciences naturelles. EXPEDITIONS TO THE SEAS AROUND BOOTHIA. SGo r^-traced, for some time, their outward route. The chap, x weather now became unsettled and severe, and confined them during four days to one spot. But on the 6th of September, when better weather had returned, they struck from the EUice River twenty-two miles north- The sea off north-westward to . n extensive island, ran for twenty miles north-westward along the coast of this, and then struck about the same distance northward to the nearest point of Victoria Land. The latter part of this run was performed under night, and they say respecting it, " We have never seen anything more brilliant than the phosphoric gleaming of the waves when darkness set in; the boats seemed to cleave a flood of molten silver, and the spray dashed from their bows before the fresh breeze fell lack like showers of diamonds into the deep. It was a cold night, and when we at last made the land, cliffs faced with eternal ice obliged us to run for a couple of leagues before we could take the shore with ; They explored the coast of Victoria Land for upwards riic const of of 150 miles, and found it incomparably the boldest ;" which they had anywhere seen in the Arctic Seas. Often, near the shore, no bottom could be reached with thirty-five fathom of line, and everywhere the cerulean hue of the water indicated a profound depth. There are several noble bays, and the largest, which they called Wellington Bay, recedes to lat. 69° 40' N., and is twenty miles wide, correspondingly long, and screened by snow-clad mountains. The extreme point reached by the expedition bore by c-mpntation fifty miles north-north-east of Cape Barrow ; there the coast begins again to trend northward of west.
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