 These could not have offered any impediment.* About midnight of the 19th, Sir Thomas Smith's Sound of 'Baffin ' was distinctly seen,' and the two capes forming its entrance were named after the two ships Isabella and Alexander. ' I considered (says Captain...  A narrative of Arctic discovery - Page 168by John Joseph Shillinglaw - 1850Full view - About this book
 | 1819 - 596 pages
...seen,' and the two capes forming its entrance were named after the two ships Isabella and Alexander. ' I considered (says Captain Ross) the bottom of this...but its entrance was completely blocked up by ice.' Now as the field-ice that blocks up^ coasts and harbours is generally from one to three feet above... | |
 | Sir John Ross - History - 1819 - 368 pages
...the capes forming each side of it were named after the two ships Isabella and Alexander. I considered the bottom of this Sound to be about eighteen leagues...but its entrance was completely blocked up by ice ; a thick fog soon came on, and we again hauled to the westward. During the time we were running before... | |
 | William Stevenson, Robert Kerr - Commerce - 1824 - 706 pages
...called by Captain Ross after the two ships Isabella and Alexander. " I considered," he informs us, " the bottom of this sound to be about eighteen leagues...but its entrance was completely blocked up by ice." Here again, a sound which seemed to promise fair to lead them into the great Polar Sea was left undiscovered,... | |
 | Robert Kerr - Voyages and travels - 1824 - 686 pages
...called by Captain Ross after the two ships Isabella and Alexander. " I considered," he informs us, " the bottom of this sound to be about eighteen leagues...but its entrance was completely blocked up by ice." Here again, a sound which seemed to promise fair to lead them into the great Polar Sea was left undiscovered,... | |
 | Robert Kerr - Explorers - 1824 - 674 pages
...called by Captain Ross after the two ships Isabella and Alexander. " I considered," he informs us, " the bottom of this sound to be about eighteen leagues...but its entrance was completely blocked up by ice." Here again, a sound which seemed to promise fair to lead them into the great Polar Sea was left undiscovered,... | |
 | Naval art and science - 1851 - 830 pages
...Capes forming each side of it were named after the tvro ships, Isabella and Alexander; I considered the bottom of this Sound to be about eighteen leagues...but its entrance was completely blocked up by ice." (Ross, p. 149.) The above latitude and longitude places Sir John Ross'i ships about fifteen leagues... | |
 | Sir John Barrow - Arctic regions - 1846 - 574 pages
...the two capes forming its entrance after the two ships, Isabella and Alexander. " I considered," says Ross, " the bottom of this sound to be about eighteen...but its entrance was completely blocked up by ice." He forgets that, by his own showing, lie was never nearer than sixty English miles from the entrance... | |
 | Sir John Barrow - Arctic regions - 1846 - 400 pages
...its entrance after the two ships, Isabella and Alexander. " I considered," says Ross, "the bottom oí this sound to be about eighteen leagues distant, but its entrance was completely blocked up by ice." He forgets that, by his own showing, he was never nearer than sixty English miles from the entrance... | |
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