The U.S. Grinnell expedition in search of Sir John Franklin. A personal narrative (1854)
Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857 · New York, Harper & Brothers · leaf 71
60 ICEBERGS. … The first that we approached was entirely inaccess- ible. Our commander, in whose estimates of distance and magnitude I have great confidence, made it nearly a mile in circumference. With the exception of one rugged corner, it was in shape a truncated wedge, and its surface a nearly horizontal…
Franklin, John, 1786-1847 · Grinnell Expedition
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