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...oup of men indifferent to all this struggle, who were land- ing amidst the Antarctic wilderness, held his attention; and then his eyes went westward t...

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... to the poles of the earth. The limitless mineral wealth of the Arctic and Antarctic circles was still buried beneath vast accumulations of immemorial...

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...miles of sandy desert in Africa and Asia set apart; much of the Arctic and Antarctic circles; vast areas of moun- tain land and frozen marsh; secluded...

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... Victory! Victory! Earth’s remotest shore, Regions which groan beneath the Antarctic stars, The green lands cradled in the roar Of western waves, and ... ...aven, _425 Which rain could never bend, or whirl-blast shake, With the Antarctic constellations paven, Canopus and his crew, lay the Austral lake—...

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...art of it where Villegaignon landed,—[At Brazil, in 1557.]—which he called Antarctic France. This discovery of so vast a country seems to be of very g...

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...nt, more particularly in regard to that portion of it which related to the Antarctic Ocean, was Mr. Poe, lately editor of the “Southern Literary Messe... ...thermometer being at thirty-six. In January, 1773, the vessels crossed the Antarctic circle, but did not succeed in penetrating much farther; for upon... ...d to the northward. In the November following he renewed his search in the Antarctic. In latitude 59 degrees 40' he met with a strong cur- rent settin... ...be apprehended, we steered a little to the southward, until we crossed the Antarctic circle, and were in latitude 69 degrees 15' E. In this latitude t... ...grees 27' easterly, per azimuth.... I have several times passed within the Antarctic circle, on different meridians, and have uniformly found the temp... ...voyage of the Jane, nearly three hundred degrees of longitude in which the Antarctic circle had not been crossed at all. Of course a wide field lay be... ...titude 69 degrees 10' S, longi- tude 42 degrees 20' W , having crossed the Antarctic circle. V ery little ice was to be seen to the southward, althoug... ...here, per azimuth, was less than it had been previously to our passing the Antarctic circle. January 12.—Our passage to the south again looked doubt- ... ...o overtake us. CHAPTER 25 WE NOW FOUND ourselves in the wide and deso late Antarctic Ocean, in a latitude exceeding eighty-four degrees, in a frail ca...

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...ummits of distant mountain-ranges, and at distant points in the arctic and antarctic re- gions; and secondly (in the following chapter), the wide dist... ...tated with admirable clearness by Dr. Hooker in his botanical works on the antarctic regions. These cannot be here discussed. I will only say that as ... ...and warmer period, before the commencement of the Glacial period, when the antarctic lands, now covered with ice, supported a highly peculiar and isol... ...y stocked from a nearly intermediate though distant point, namely from the antarctic islands, when they were clothed with veg- etation, before the com... ...hicker fur in cold climates; blind, in caves; extinct, of Australia Anomma Antarctic islands, ancient flora of Antirrhinum Ants attending aphides; sla... ...Australian plants; on relations of flora of South America; on flora of the Antarctic lands; on the plants of the Galapagos Hooks on bamboos; to seeds ...

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...ird of another closely allied genus, Chionis alba, is an inhabitant of the antarctic regions; it feeds on sea- weed and shells on the tidal rocks. Alt... ... The only quadruped native to the island*; is a large wolf like fox (Canis antarcticus), which is common to both Eas and West Falkland. I have no doub... ...r. The rock-goose, so called from living exclusively on th sea-beach (Anas antarctica), is common both here and o the west coast of America, as far no... ...Icebergs formed — Transportal of Boulders — Climate and Productions of the Antarctic Islands — Preservation of Frozen Car- casses —Recapitulation. IN ... ...w descent of the glaciers, and on the zone of perpetual congelation in the antarctic islands, may be passed over by any one not interested in these cu... ...ape of Good Hope, nor in Australia.* On the Climate and Productions of the Antarctic Islands. — Considering the rankness of the vegeta- tion in Tierra... ... nal, vol. ix. p. 528) of a gigantic boulder embedded in an iceberg in the Antarctic Ocean, almost certainly one hundred miles dis- tant from any land... ...ssage in a pamphlet by Mr. Couthouy, one of the natu- ralists in the great Antarctic Expedition of the United States: — “Having personally examined a ...

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...parison for the division of a wedded twain is correct. She was Arctic, and Antarctic he had to be, perforce of the distance she put between them. A re...

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...he planet fall, And that is all. In a review of Sir James Clark Ross’s Antarctic Voyage of Discovery, there is a passage which shows how far a bod...

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...med upon ten thousand hills; and there were innumerable contribu- tions to antarctic journals almost as good (but not quite) as our own. Even within o...

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...see the Lybian, Arabian, and Asiatic deserts, I see huge dreadful Arctic and Antarctic icebergs, I see the superior oceans and the inferior ones, the ...

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... by means of this blest Pantagruelion, the Arc- tic people looked upon the Antarctic, scoured the Atlantic Ocean, passed the tropics, pushed through t...