 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1885 - 282 страници
...Carolina. Their hopes of a balmy clime seemed realised ; for from the shore came a sweetness ' as if they had been in the midst of some delicate garden,...abounding with all kinds of odoriferous flowers.' They coasted along for one hundred and twenty miles, entered the first convenient harbour, and took possession... | |
 | James Grant Wilson, John Fiske - 1888 - 810 страници
...the coast. Early in July they neared land, and perceived a fragrance coming off the coast '• as if they had been in the midst of some delicate garden," abounding with all kinds of odoriferous flowers. On 13 July they entered Ocracoke inlet and landed on Wocoken, the southernmost of the islands forming... | |
 | James Grant Wilson, John Fiske - 1891 - 840 страници
...along the coast. Early in July they neared land, and perceived a fragrance coming off the coast "as if they had been in the midst of some delicate garden," abounding with all kinds of odoriferous flowers. On 18 July they entered Ocrocoke inlet and landed on Wocoken, the southernmost of the islands forming... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1888 - 658 страници
...were soon opposite the shores of Carolina. As in July they drew near land, the fragrance was " as if they had been in the midst of some delicate garden,...abounding with all kinds of odoriferous flowers." Ranging the coast for one hundred and twenty miles, they entered the first convenient harbor, and,... | |
 | Paul Gaffarel - 1890 - 82 страници
...description delà Caroline, écrira encore en 158Í. « We smeit so sweet ami so strong a smell, as it we had been in the midst of some delicate garden, abounding with all Kinds of odoriferous flowers. » 3. Jubiual, 2-3. Quum stelissct uavis ad terram, Uescendimus nos et cœpimus nos coulait de l'ouest... | |
 | William Ernest Henley, Charles Whibley - 1894 - 452 страници
...second of July we found shoal water, where we 1 5°4 _|_ smelt so sweet and so strong a smell, as if we had been in the midst of some delicate garden abounding with all kind of odoriferous flowers, by which we were assured that the land could not be far distant ; and... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1895 - 652 страници
...were soon opposite the shores of Carolina. As in July they drew near land, the fragrance was " as if they had been in the midst of some delicate garden,...abounding with all kinds of odoriferous flowers." Ranging the coast for one hundred and twenty miles, they entered the first convenient harbor, and,... | |
 | Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) - 1895 - 378 страници
...were off the Norih American coast in 'shoal water, where they smelt so sweet and strong a smell, as if they had been in the midst of some delicate garden, abounding with all kinds of flowers.' Reaching the land they had a ' conference with a savage,' and soon ' fell to trading with'... | |
 | 1895 - 842 страници
...subjected. On the second of July, the voyagers were regaled by odors so sweet that they seemed to be " in the midst of some delicate garden abounding with all kinds of odoriferous flowers." This betokened the proximity of land, and two days later land was reached. Skirting the coast northward,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1896 - 648 страници
...Canada. It was sixty-six days before the smell of the land, " so sweet and so strong a smell, as if wee had been in the midst of some delicate garden abounding with all kinds of odoriferous flowers," warned them of their near approach to the Western Continent, and two days more — July 4th — before... | |
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The second of July we found shoal water, where we smelled so sweet and so strong a smell as if we had been in the midst of some delicate garden abounding with all kinds of odoriferous flowers... 
