| Molyneux St. John - British Columbia - 1877 - 322 pages
...paralleled by any country in the world. Day after day for a whole week, in a vessel of nearly two thousand tons, we threaded an interminable labyrinth of watery...turn an ever shifting combination of rock, verdure, glacier, and snow-capped mountain of unrivalled grandeur and beauty. . When it is remembered that this... | |
| William Leggo - Canada - 1878 - 946 pages
...Such a spectacle as its coast line presents is not to be paralleled by any country in the world. Uay after day, for a whole week, in a vessel of nearly...the adjoining ocean, and presenting at every turn an ever-shifting combination of rock, verdure, forest, glacier, and snow-capped mountains of unrivalled... | |
| Edward Hepple Hall - Canada - 1879 - 264 pages
...for a whole week, in a vessel of nearly 3,000 tons, we threaded an interminable labyrinth of watery reaches, that wound endlessly in and out of a network...the adjoining ocean, and presenting at every turn an ever-shifting combination of rock, verdure, forest, glacier, and snow-capped mountains of unrivalled... | |
| Canada - 1881 - 336 pages
...for a whole week, in a vessel of nearly 3,000 tons, we threaded an interminable labyrinth of watery reaches, that wound endlessly in and out of a network...the adjoining ocean, and presenting at every turn an ever-shifting combination of rock, verdure, forest, glacier, and snow-capped mountains of unrivalled... | |
| Aeneas McDonell Dawson - British Columbia - 1881 - 256 pages
...larelleled by any country in the world. Day after day, for a -vshole week, in a vessel of nearly 2,000 tons, we threaded an interminable labyrinth of watery lanes and reaches, that wound 135 endlessly in and out of a network of islands, promontories and peninsulas for thousands of miles,... | |
| Frederick Temple Blackwood Marquis of Dufferin and Ava - Canada - 1882 - 320 pages
...country in the world. Day after day, for a whole week, in a vessel of nearly 2,000 tons, we threaded a labyrinth of watery lanes and reaches that wound endlessly...the adjoining ocean, and presenting at every turn an ever-shifting combination of rock, verdure, forest, glacier, and snow-capped mountains of unrivalled... | |
| Griffith, Farran, Browne and co - 1883 - 392 pages
...country in the world. Day after day, for a whole week, in a vessel of nearly 2000 tons, we threaded a labyrinth of watery lanes and reaches, that wound...the adjoining ocean, and presenting at every turn an ever-shifting combination of rock, verdure, forest, glacier, and snow-capped mountains of unrivalled... | |
| Canada. Department of Agriculture - 1883 - 42 pages
...paralleled by any country in the world. Day after day for a whole week, in a vessel of nearly 2,000 tons, we threaded an interminable labyrinth of watery...lanes and reaches that wound endlessly in and out of a net work of islands, promontories, and peninsulas for thousands of miles, unruffled by the slightest... | |
| Emerson Bristol Biggar - British Columbia - 1889 - 1056 pages
...paralleled by any country in the world. Day after day for a whole week, in a vessel of nearly 2,000 tons, we threaded an interminable labyrinth of watery...the adjoining ocean, and presenting at every turn an ever-shifting combination of rock, verdure, forest, glacier and snow-capped mountain of unrivaled grandeur... | |
| William Henry Parr Greswell - Canada - 1890 - 208 pages
...week, in a vessel of 2000 tons, we threaded an interminable labyrinth of watery reaches, that wound in and out of a network of islands, promontories,...the adjoining ocean, and presenting at every turn an ever-shifting combination of rock, verdure, forest, glacier, and snow-capped mountains of unrivalled... | |
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