... and broken hillocks, a little stunted vegetation of shrubs. It was a place well suited to stand at the junction of the two oceans, beyond the reach of human cultivation, and encounter the blasts and snows of a perpetual winter. Yet, dismal as it was,... Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative - Page 362by Richard Henry Dana (Jr.) - 1869 - 470 pagesFull view - About this book
| Richard Henry Dana - Seafaring - 1909 - 436 pages
...snows of a perpetual winter. Yet, dismal as it was, it was a pleasant sight to us ; not only as being the first land we had seen, but because it told us...— and that, with twenty-four hours of this breeze, might bid defiance to the Southern Ocean. It told us, too, our latitude and longitude better than any... | |
| Helen Whybrow - History - 2003 - 588 pages
...snows of a perpetual winter. Yet, dismal as it was, it was a pleasant sight to us; not only as being the first land we had seen, but because it told us that we had passed the Cape,—were in the Atlantic,—and that, with twenty-four hours of this breeze, we might bid defiance... | |
| Ben Pester - Atlantic Ocean - 2004 - 304 pages
...broken, and girt with rocks and ice ... Yet, dismal as it was, it was a pleasant sight to us ... and with twenty-four hours of this breeze [we] might bid...were, as well as if we were off the end of Long Wharf. We left the land gradually astern; and at sundown had the Atlantic Ocean clear before us. Sunday ...... | |
| Helen Whybrow - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 580 pages
...snows of a perpetual winter. Yet, dismal as it was, it was a pleasant sight to us; not only as being the first land we had seen, but because it told us that we had passed the Cape,—were in the Atlantic,—and that, with twenty-four hours of this breeze, we might bid defiance... | |
| Harry Thurston Peck - Anthologies - 1901 - 434 pages
...had passed the Cape, — were in the Atlantic, — and that, with twenty-four hours of this breeze, might bid defiance to the Southern ocean. It told...off the end of Long wharf. In the general joy. Mr. N. said he should like to go ashore upon the island and examine a spot which probably no human being... | |
| Agriculture - 1977 - 728 pages
...snows of a perpetual winter. Yet dismal as it was, it was a pleasant sight to us; not only as being the first land we had seen, but because it told us...breeze, we might bid defiance to the Southern Ocean." The "remote and almost unknown coast of California" described by Dana was eventually to become a bustling... | |
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