The tongue of time, and star of the states: [electronic resource]: a system of human nature, with the phenomena of the heavens and earth. : American antiquities, remains of giants, geology, volcanoes, Egyptian and Indian magic, diet, dress, drinks, diseases, sleep, somnambulism, trances, resuscitation. : Also an account of persons with two souls, and of five persons who told colors by the touch (1840)
Comstock, Joseph · Hartford: : [s.n.] · leaf 118
eproof of which, as well as of immense fields of floating ice, can-not be denied. But how and where do these immense moun-tains of ice form ; and how, and from whence are they pushedinto the seal We must suppose that they are the productions ofthe polar regions. That they have been long… … Facts confirm this theory. Access to Greenland, which wasformerly visited by navigators, and even by missionaries, had beenprevented for the space of four hundred years, by ice. In theyear 1816 or 1817, this icy barrier broke up. This breaking upprobably began in 1815 ; as we heard of floating ice…
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