 | Frank Alfred Golder - Bering Island (Russia) - 1925 - 334 pages
...weather, it came into view in the same place. The land was here very much elevated; the mountains,39 observed extending inland, were so lofty that we could see them quite plainly at sea at a distance of sixteen Dutch miles. I cannot recall having seen higher mountains anywhere in... | |
 | Spike Walker - History - 2002 - 324 pages
...on the following day, in very clear weather, it came into view in the same place. The land was here very much elevated; the mountains, observed extending...were so lofty that we could see them quite plainly at sea at a distance of sixteen Dutch miles. I cannot recall having seen higher mountains anywhere in... | |
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... of it, the announcement, as usual, was regarded as one of my peculiarities; yet on the following day, in very clear weather, it came into view in the same place. The land was here very much elevated; the mountains, observed extending inland, were... 