| Josiah Conder - 1830 - 396 pages
...industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them, than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We know that whilst some of them draw the line...Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous... | |
| Salma Hale - 1830 - 330 pages
...equinoctial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of both poles. We know that, while some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coasts of Africa, others run the longimdj' and pursue the gigantic game along the coast of Brax.il.... | |
| Daniel Webster - 1830 - 518 pages
...them drew the line and struck the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude and pursued their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what was vexed by their fishenes. No climate that was not witness to their toils."* At the end of the war,... | |
| Daniel Webster - 1830 - 518 pages
...resting places in the progress of their victorious industry. Whilst some of them drew the line and struck the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude and pursued their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what was vexed by their fisheries.... | |
| 1830 - 222 pages
...accumulated winter of both the poles. We know that while some of them draw the line and strike tho harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue the gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. N» climate... | |
| Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1831 - 356 pages
...industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them, than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We know, that whilst some of them draw the...Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous... | |
| 1831 - 586 pages
...Tom. Men. London . . 31 10,158 674 21 7,000 604 31 10,997 937 Graenock . 2 216 28 nil. nil. run tbe longitude and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea, but what is vexed with their fisheries. No climate, that is not witness of their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland,... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1832 - 310 pages
...industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them, than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We know that whilst some of them draw the line...Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous... | |
| 1844 - 372 pages
...equinoxial heat more discouraging to them, than the accumulated winter of both poles. We know that while some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon...along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed with their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland,... | |
| Encyclopaedia Americana - 1833 - 548 pages
...them than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We learn that, while some of them draw the line or strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others...pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil." These are the seas that are still vexed by the American fisheries, which have been pushed, however,... | |
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