The aerial age : a thousand miles by airship over the Atlantic Ocean; airship voyages over the Polar Sea, the past, the present and the future of aerial navigation (1911)
Wellman, Walter, 1858- · New York : A.R. Keller · leaf 220
arder (which we had now let down into thesea) up the face of the great ice-wall—a verticalcliff of ragged, rugged ice rising nearly 100 feetsheer from the sea. Was it possible for our ser-pents to climb tliis frightful barrier? Weshould soon see, for now the wind was drivingus straight toward the… … Part of c VR AND OXE OF THE MOTORS 1909. OVER THE POLAR SEA 177 rocks of the moraine. As we moved inlandthe serpents fell into deep crevasses in the ice,and then crept out again. Finally, by pulling the valve-cord and lettingout gas we brought the airship down near to thesurface of the glacier. At…
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