 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1840 - 658 pages
...account,' says Von Wrangell, ' these bones or tusks are less large and heavy the further we advance towards the north, so that it is. a rare occurrence on the islands to meet with a tusk of more than three pood in weight, whereas on the continent, they arc said often to... | |
 | Ferdinand Petrovich Vrangel' - 1840 - 568 pages
...islands. According to his account, these bones or tusks, are less large and heavy the further we advance towards the north, so that it is a rare occurrence on the islands to meet with a tusk of more than three pood in weight, whereas on the continent, they are said often to... | |
 | Ferdinand Petrovich baron Wrangel - Arctic regions - 1841 - 328 pages
...islands. According to his account, these bones or tusks are less large and heavy the farther we advance towards the north, so that it is a rare occurrence on the islands to meet with a tusk of more than three pood in weight, whereas on the Continent they are said often to... | |
 | Ferdinand Petrovich baron Wrangel - Arctic Ocean - 1842 - 322 pages
...islands. According to his account, these bones or tusks are less large and heavy the farther we advance towards the north, so that it is a rare occurrence on the islands to meet with a tusk of more than three pood in weight, whereas on the Continent they are said often to... | |
 | Ferdinand Petrovich Vrangel' - 1844 - 560 pages
...islands. According to his account, these bones or tusks, are less large and heavy the further we advance towards the north, so that it is a rare occurrence on the islands to meet with a tusk of more than three pood in weight, whereas on the 2 K2 continent, they are said to... | |
 | Henry Woodward - Electronic journals - 1880 - 650 pages
...idiosyncracies. Hedenstrom says that the bones and tusks are less large and heavy the further we advance towards the north, so that it is a rare occurrence on the islands, ie New Siberia, to meet with a tusk of more than three pood in weight, whereas on the continent they... | |
 | William John Gordon - Arctic regions - 1907 - 464 pages
...Island. According to his account, "these bones or tusks are less large and heavy the further we advance towards the north, so that it is a rare occurrence on the islands to meet with a tusk of more than 108 Ibs. in weight, whereas on the continent they are said often to weigh... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1840 - 650 pages
...account,' says Von Wrangell, ' these bones or tusks are less large and heavy the further we advance towards the north, so that it is. a rare occurrence on the islands to meet with a tusk of more than three pood in weight, whereas on the continent, they are said often to... | |
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tusks are smaller and lighter in weight the further one advances towards the North, so that it is a rare occurrence on the islands to find a tusk of more than three poods in weight, whereas on the continent they are said to weigh as much as twelve poods.... 