Part, Chapter
1 I, II | enterprise succeed, this point will become an important
2 I, V | beginning of May.~From this point the expedition was to take
3 I, VI | no longer below freezing point. A few delicate mosses and
4 I, VI | Sabine were positive on that point, and could even have named
5 I, VII | be tried of reaching this point, where all the meridians
6 I, VIII | at nine they neared the point on the northern bank at
7 I, VIII | properly so called, the point for which he intended to
8 I, X | itself, that mathematical point where meet all the meridians
9 I, XI | therefore make for that point, and should the site appear
10 I, XI | Parry is the westernmost point. There at the foot of a
11 I, XII | and reached the furthest point of a little lake, until
12 I, XII | would occupy the highest point of the diurnal arc, and
13 I, XIII | Cape Bathurst. From this point the view embraced the lagoon
14 I, XVI | projected fort at another point on the northern shore of
15 I, XVIII| probably not the coldest point of the globe, for most navigators
16 I, XVIII| further south than that famous point.”~“Well, I don’t suppose
17 I, XIX | be at the lowest maximum point below the horizon of the
18 I, XIX | America, and were making for Point Barrow, on the western coast
19 I, XIX | fort at this particular point of the coast? Did they think
20 I, XX | temperature was 44° below freezing point.~The next day, 1st January
21 I, XXIII| the wind veered to every point of the horizon with provoking
22 II, I | whole matter from a monetary point of view, and was afraid
23 II, II | altitudes obtained the exact point of the Arctic Ocean then
24 II, II | clear, concise, and to the point. There could be no doubt
25 II, II | Lieutenant dwelt long on this point—that during the eight or
26 II, II | distance from any land. At that point it will have to remain for
27 II, II | that hitherto inaccessible point of the globe?”~Lieutenant
28 II, II | that is the most important point just at present,” said Mrs
29 II, II | hundred and fifty miles from Point Barrow, the northernmost
30 II, III | in different parts. The point of rupture, which was most
31 II, III | warm currents, and on this point Hobson was naturally anxious.~
32 II, III | the layer of earth at the point of junction increasing,
33 II, IV | been mistaken about the point of rupture. It was the isthmus
34 II, IV | coming to an almost sharp point, and it was evident that
35 II, IV | than eight miles from this point to Fort Hope, and before
36 II, VI | from it none the less. The point at issue was simply:—Would
37 II, VII | they at last reached the point for which they were bound.~
38 II, VIII | was anxious to know if the point of it had resisted the storm,
39 II, IX | name when she was at the point of death.”~But now Kalumah
40 II, IX | fisheries near Icy Cape, a point a little above the seventieth
41 II, X | reveal the whole truth.”~This point being decided, the ordinary
42 II, X | two degrees above freezing point in the day, and fell to
43 II, X | thermometer remained at freezing point, and Hobson found on consulting
44 II, X | often veered round to every point of the compass in the course
45 II, XIII | have all landed at some point, no matter where, of the
46 II, XIII | degrees of cold below freezing point before it becomes solidified,
47 II, XIV | many degrees below freezing point, so that the sea round Victoria
48 II, XV | appeared to be debating some point. When the others came up,
49 II, XV | other words towards the point nearest to the continent,
50 II, XV | girl’s confidence on this point reassured Hobson, for he
51 II, XV | shake her conviction on this point, and it was almost impossible
52 II, XVII | risen successively on every point of its shores.~The observations
53 II, XIX | There is, however, no fixed point beyond which floating ice
54 II, XIX | at once to judge of the point of flotation, and the stability
55 II, XX | on a large scale, and the point representing the island
56 II, XXII | of the lagoon, from which point the shores of the lake,
57 II, XXIII| rose, and pointing to a point on the south-east, cried—~“
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