 | English essays - 1824 - 716 pages
...the frigate at upwards of four English miles ; though the actual breadth is barely one. The rapidity of the current is such, that no boat can row directly...water was extremely cold, from the melting of the mountain snows. About three weeks before, we had made an attempt ; but having ridden all the *ay from... | |
 | 1824 - 56 pages
...the frigate at upwards of four English miles; .hough the actual breadth is barely one. The rapidity of the current is such, that no boat can row directly...water was extremely cold, from the melting of the mountain snows. About three weeks before, we had made an attempt ; but having ridden all the way from... | |
 | Saturday night - 1824 - 968 pages
...one. The rapidity of the current is guch, that no boat can row directly across ; and it may in Rome measure be estimated, from the circumstance of the...water was extremely cold, from the melting of the mountain snows. About three weeks before we had made an attempt, but having ridden all the way from... | |
 | Local history - 1824 - 506 pages
...the frigate at upwards of four English miles ; though tho actual breadth is barely one. The rapidity of the current is such that no boat can row directly...from the circumstance of the whole distance being aceomplished by one of the parties in an hour and five, and by the other in an hour and ten minutes.... | |
 | John Farmer - New Hampshire - 1824 - 492 pages
...circumstance of the whole distance heing accomplished hy one of the parties in an hour and five, and hy the other in an hour and ten minutes. The water was extremely cold from the melting of the mountain snows. — Ahout tbree weeks hefore, we had made an attempt, hut having ridden ail the way... | |
 | 1824 - 312 pages
...the frigate at upwards of four English miles ; though the actual breadth is barely one. The rapidity of the current is such, that no boat can row directly across; and it may in some mesteure be estimated, front the circumstance of the whole distance being accomplished by one of the... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1824 - 728 pages
...the frigate at upwards of four English miles ; though the actual breadth is barely one. The rapidity of the current is such, that no boat can row directly across ; and it may ill some measure be estimated, from the circumstance of the whole distance being accomplished by one... | |
 | Great Britain - 1825 - 498 pages
...the frigate at upwards of four English, miles; though the actual breadth is barely one. The rapidity of the current is such, that no boat can row directly...water was extremely cold, from the melting of the mountain snows. About three weeks before, we had made an attempt ; but having ridden all the way from... | |
 | Great Britain - 1825 - 494 pages
...the frigate at upwards of four English miles ; though the actual breadth is barely one. The rapidity of the current is such, that no boat can row directly...water was extremely cold, from the melting of the mountain snows. About three weeks before, we had made an attempt ; but having ridden all the way from... | |
 | Alexander Kilgour (M.D.) - 1825 - 234 pages
...actual breadth is barely one. The rapidity of the current is such, that no boat can row directly cross, and it may in some measure be estimated from the circumstance...About three weeks before, in April, we had made an at* tempt, but having ridden all the way from the Troad the same morning, and the water being of an... | |
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The whole distance, from the place whence we started to our landing on the other side, including the length we were carried by the current, was computed by those on board the frigate at upwards of four English miles, though the actual breadth is barely... 
