...discovered, which they ascertained to be 10,000 feet high, and 30 miles from the coast. "It was a beautiful clear evening, and we had a most enchanting view of...intervening valleys, and which descended from near the mountains' summits, projected in many places several miles into the sea, and terminated in lofty perpendicular...

...fragments of volcanic stones. In the evening, says Captain Ross, the atmosphere was beautifully clear, " and we had a most enchanting view of the two magnificent...with eternal snow, rose to elevations varying from 7000 to 10,000 feet above the level of the ocean. The glaciers filled their intervening valleys, which...

...eminent individuals at home were given. Near views of the newly-discovered country are thus described : ' It was a beautifully clear evening ; and we had a...with eternal snow, rose to elevations varying from 7000 to 10,000 feet above the level of the ocean. The glaciers that filled their intervening valleys,...

...M individuals at homo were given. Xcar views of the newly-discovered country are thus described : ' It was a beautifully clear evening ; and we had a...enchanting view of the two magnificent ranges of mountains, whoso lofty peaks, perfectly covered with eternal snow, roso to elevations varying from 7000 to 10,000...

...Mount Erebus and Beaufort Island. Near views of the newly-discovered country are tbna described: — "It was a beautifully clear evening; and we had a most enchanting view of the t wo magnificent ranges of mountains, whose lofty pcakx, perfectly covered with eternal enow, row to...

...illustrate the subject, I cannot do better than transcribe the explorer's own words. He says : — " It was a beautifully clear evening, and we had a most...varying from seven to ten thousand feet above the ocean. The glaciers that filled their intervening valleys, and which descended from near the mountain...

...that it was a continent. By the evening, they were close to the land but could not make a landing. "It was a beautifully clear evening, and we had a...seven to ten thousand feet above the level of the ocean."23 The range of mountains stretching to the northwest was named the Admiralty Range. Measurements...