 encircles the ultimate bounds of the inhabited earth, and all beyond it is unknown. No one has been able to verify any thing concerning it, on account of its difficult and perilous navigation, its great obscurity, its profound depth, and frequent tempests...  The Conquest of Canada - Seite 27von George Warburton - 1850 - 508 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Washington Irving - 1828 - 574 Seiten
...proofs of this than the description given of the Atlantic by Xerif al Edrizi, surnamed the Nubian, an eminent Arabian writer, whose countrymen were the...; yet there are many islands in it, some peopled, 4 INTRODUCTION. [ru,,\i I. others uninhabited. There is no mariner who dares to enter into its deep... | |
 | William Newton - 1828 - 436 Seiten
...geographical knowledge in the time of.Xerif al Edrizi surnamedthe Nubian, an eminent Arabian writer. " The ocean," he observes, " encircles the ultimate...uninhabited. .There is no mariner who dares to enter into its deep.watersj or if any have done. so, they have merely kept along its coasts, fearful of departing... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1828 - 502 Seiten
...proofs of this than the description given of the Atlantic by Xerif al Edrizi, surnamed the Nubian, an eminent Arabian writer, whose countrymen were the...navigation, its great obscurity, its profound depth, and ' See Illustrations at the end of this work. Artisle frequent tempests ; through fear of its mighty... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1829 - 346 Seiten
...eminent Arabian writer, whose countrymen possessed all that was known of geography in the middle ages. "The ocean," he observes, "encircles the ultimate...haughty winds ; yet there are many islands in it, some of which are peopled, and others uninhabited. There is no mariner who dares to enter into its deep... | |
 | Marshall Tufts - 1833 - 248 Seiten
...conjecture could not penetrate, and enterprise feared to adventure. !l .SHORES OF concerning i(, on accnunt of its difficult and perilous navigation, its great...fear of its mighty fishes ' and its haughty winds, though many islands are in it, and some of them peopled. There is no mariner who dares to enter its... | |
 | 1841 - 274 Seiten
...earth, and all beyond it is unknown. No one lias been nble to verify anything concerning it, on Recount of its difficult and perilous navigation, its great...haughty winds; yet there are many islands in it, some of which are peopled, and others uninhabited. There is no mariner who dares to enter into its deep... | |
 | 1841 - 276 Seiten
...bounds of the inhabited earth, and all beyond it is unknown. No one ha« been able to verify anything concerning it, on account of its difficult and perilous...and frequent tempests; through fear of its mighty hshes, and its haughty winds; yet there are many islands in it, some of which are peopled, and others... | |
 | 1841 - 536 Seiten
...difficult mid perilous navigation, its greet obscurity, its profound depth, end frequent tempest«; through fear of its mighty fishes, and its haughty winds; yet there are many islands in it, some of which are peopled, and others uninhabited. There is no mariner who dures to enter into its deep... | |
 | Jesse Olney - 1842 - 288 Seiten
...navigation, its treat obscurity, its profound depth, mid frequent tempests through tear of its pujihty fishes, and its haughty winds. Yet there are many islands in it. some of which are peopled, and others uninhabited. There is no mariner who dares to enter into its deep... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1849 - 450 Seiten
...proofs of this than the description given of the Atlantic by Xerif al Edrisi, surnamed the Nubian, an eminent Arabian writer, whose countrymen were the...peopled, others uninhabited. There is no mariner who darea to enter into its deep waters ; or if any have done so, they have merely kept along its coasts,... | |
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