 Indeed, we have already mentioned, that the heat is abstracted most rapidly from the body during strong breezes, and most of those who have perished from cold in this country, have fallen a sacrifice to their being overtaken on a lake or other unsheltered...  The Quarterly Review - Página 3791823Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | 1824 - 884 páginas
...were, however, detrimental to us in another way. The trees froze to their very centres, and bccume as hard as stones, and more difficult to cut. Some...axes were broken daily, and by the end of the month we had only one left that was fit for felling trees. By intrusting it only to one of the party who... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1823 - 580 páginas
...occasion to 57° below zero, and never rose beyond 6° above it; the mean for the month was — 29'7°- During these intense colds, however, the atmosphere...axes were broken daily, and by the end of the month .we had only one left that was fit for felting trees. . Byintrusting it only to one of the party who... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1823 - 572 páginas
...for the face, nor did they need to do so. Indeed we have already mentioned that the heat is extracted most rapidly from the body during strong breezes,...axes were broken daily, and by the end of the month, we had only one left that was fit for felling trees.' The officers usually occupied their day in making... | |
 | John Franklin - 1824 - 426 páginas
...occasion to 57° below zero, and never rose beyond 6° above it ; the mean for the month was — 29°. 7. During these intense colds, however, the atmosphere...very centres, ,and became as hard as stones, and more difcult to cut. Some of the axes were broken daily, and by the end of the month we had only one left... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1824 - 918 páginas
...their ordinary occupations without using any extraordinary precautions, yet without feeling anybad effects. They had their rein-deer shirts on, leathern...axes were broken daily, and by the end of the month we had only one left that was fit for felling trees. By intrusting it only to one of the party who... | |
 | John Franklin - 1824 - 426 páginas
...lined with blankets, and furred caps ; but none of them used any defence for the face, or needed any. Indeed we have already mentioned that the heat is...axes were broken daily, and by the end of the month we had only one left that was fit for felling trees. By intrusting it only to one of the party who... | |
 | 1824 - 890 páginas
...during strong breezes, and most of those who have perished from cold in this country, have l'alleu a sacrifice to their being overtaken on a lake or...axes were broken daily, and by the end of the month we had only one left that was fit for felling trees. By intrusting it only to one of the party who... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1824 - 894 páginas
...however, detrimental to us in another way. The trees froze to their very centres, and became as hiird as stones, and more difficult to cut. Some of the...axes were broken daily, and by the end of the month we had only one left that was fit for felling trees. By intrusting it only to one of the party who... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 432 páginas
...their rein-deer shirts on, leathern mittens lined with blankets, and furred caps ; but none of then used any defence for the face, nor did they need to...axes were broken daily, and by the end of the month we had only one left that was fit for felling trees. By entrusting it only to one of the party who... | |
 | Sir John Barrow - 1846 - 574 páginas
...and furred caps ; but none of them used any defence for the face, nor did they need to do so. Indoed we have already mentioned that the heat is abstracted...axes were broken daily, and by the end of the month we had only one left that was fit for felling trees. By intrusting it only to one of the party who... | |
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