There are a number of small rocky spots--hummocks of 9 to 14 fathoms in depth.
It has a sharp, broken, rocky bottom, including a small shoal of 20 fathoms and some hummocks of rather greater depths.
They could follow the low sand-spit which divided it from the sea on the south side, and the long line of hummocks on the north, till they faded out of sight in the distance.
It picked up the smaller hummocks outside and set them waltzing along the shore.
It stretched away in front as far as they could see, but Macro thought he could see more sand hummocks at the far end.
They each picked up a piece of wood with which to root in the tangle, and, bending and picking and munching, made their way slowly towards the hummocks in front.
The hummocks ran along its northern side, and a narrow strip of sand divided it from the sea on the south.
Where they stood, the land was about a quarter of a mile in width and it stretched away in front further than they could see, in vast stretches of sand with a line of hummocks all along the northern side.
The next day several hummocks stood in the way, and just about noon they came to a channel of open water about a mile wide.
The next day's run was a slow one, for the ice was bad in many places, and several hummocks had to be explored to find passable crossing-places.
Off this Cape are two small islands (the largest appears like two) having two hummocks joined together by a neck of low land which is not seen till pretty close.
Once or twice we got among floes which stood 7 or 8 feet above water, with hummocks and pinnacles as high as 25 feet.
Sea ice when pressed up into large hummocks gradually loses all its salt.
Discussed with Wright the fact that the hummocks on sea ice always yield fresh water.
At noon we were abreast of it, when a line of sand hummocks was ahead, scarcely visible in consequence of the great refraction about them; but an open sea behind us from the N.
Fosse 8 and the Hohenzollern redoubt were hummocks of earth faintly visible through drifting clouds of thick, sluggish vapor.
Orde clucked to his horses, and the spidery wheels of the buckboard swung lightly over the wet hummocks of the clearing, to come to a stop opposite the men.
The furthest land visible to the northward consisted of detachedhummocks of which the highest was called Mount Young in honour of the admiral.
The intermediate coast is similar to that between Encounter Bay and Cape Bernouilli, with the sole difference that the hummocks upon the sandy bank are somewhat higher: nothing inland appeared above them.
But here the hills fall back from the sea, and the shore becomes very low with some hummocks of sand upon it; and the same description of coast prevailed as far as could be seen to the eastward.
It is composed of rough hummocks of pahoehoe, rising out of a sandy desert.
The dogs yelled in alarm, and, springing away at full speed, were soon lost among the hummocks of the Arctic sea.
I knew that it was land-ice on which I stood, and also that the coast could not be far off; but the hummocks and the snow-drift prevented me from seein' far in any direction.
To advance without light over rugged ice, in which were cracks and fissures and hummocks innumerable, being out of the question, Rooney called a halt.
Sandhills and stony hummocks floated like a mirage in quivering, reflected light.
It looked as if they had left the hummocks on the coast-shelf astern, and Mossamedes went full-speed.
On thehummocks were graves, graves marked by wooden crosses, others by broken rifles thrust in the ground.
The smoothed hummocks are very noticeable in Derwentwater or Borrowdale, the celebrated Bowderstone resting on one; a particularly fine low surface appears at Grange, near the head of the lake.
The ice-tables now crumbling into hummocks were from eight to fourteen inches thick, generally ten.
The thickness of the upraised tables is sometimes fourteen feet; and the hummocks are so ground and distorted by the rude attrition of the floes, that they rise up in cones like crushed sugar, some of them forty feet high.
I almost begin to realize Baron Wrangell's account of the hummocks on the coast of Siberia.
Still there were hummocks of young tables, and some ugly twists of the beach line; and matters had not yet settled themselves into rest.
The smoother ice-field that held us would be driven in, piling itself in miniature hummocks about us, sometimes higher than our decks, and much too near them to leave us a sense of security against their further advance.
I walk over the hummocks or ice floes, and am oppressed with perspiration and lassitude.
It shot up into larger hummocks and heavier masses, and was evidently thicker and more permanent.
These hummocks are totally unlike anything we saw in Baffin's Bay.
The brig was loose once more at the sides; but she remained suspended by the bows and stern from hummocks built up like trestles, and canted forward still five feet and a quarter out of level.
The hummocks around us still remain without apparent motion, heaped up like snow-covered barriers of street rioters.
While looking at these, the sounds, though seemingly further off, increased to such a degree that I was convinced the ice was in action, and started off to double a cape of hummocks and see the commotion.
They jumped down the cliffs to the beach, and in the very act to jump Thorwald saw something move between two hummocks of sand.
The shore was sandy, with hummocks of blown sand upon it, covered with grass; the surf very heavy.
In my opinion, formed on personal observation, live-oak hummocks are not quite so plentiful as they are represented to be, and of this I will give you one illustration.
While we were proceeding along one of the banks of that most singular stream, my companion pointed out some large hummocks of dark-leaved trees on the opposite side, which he said were entirely formed of live-oaks.
The General sat squarely in the middle of the front seat, very large, erect, and imposing, driving with a fine military disregard of hummocks or the laws of equilibrium.
Our beds we spread in the various little spots among the roots and hummocks we imagined to look the most even.
At night they roosted in depressions in the ground or between hummocks of sedges, where, without overhead protections they endured temperatures of as low as 34 degrees Fahrenheit.
We'll have to get back among the hummocks to find a drift for the igloo.
If it wasn't for these big hummocks we'd be blown clear off the ice," said Bobby, finally.
Then they flung themselves upon the komatiks, and away they dashed, down the steep and slippery incline, and off through the shore hummocks at a wild, mad gallop.
It was long after dark when the dogs, straining at their traces and yelping, rushed in through the ice hummocks below Abel's cabin.
Presently the ice hummocks were left behind and the smooth, white surface of the frozen bay stretched out before them.
Our experience of the hummocks of Victoria Strait was not one that we were anxious to repeat.
Hayes had so much difficulty in crossing Smith Sound through the heavy hummocks in the spring of 1861.
Its snow-clad hills were almost hidden behind thehummocks that everywhere bound the shore and make it a difficult undertaking to get on or off the ice at low tide.
He has to constantly keep watch over the front of the sled, to turn it to the right or left in order to avoid hummocks or stones that would upset the load or tear the ice from the bottom of the runners.
In the broad wastes open to the wind the sand drifts in hummocks about the stubby shrubs, and between them the soil shows saline traces.
Her uncle laughed as he led the way over the hummocks down the rugged path to the rocks.
She looked after Polly skipping over the hummocks to Grace Wharton's and wished she were going, too.
Molly made a pretty butterfly with yellow paper wings, and as they all set out across the hummocks to the little landing every one was entirely satisfied.
I came to piled heaps of decaying seaweed and cart tracks running this way and that, and then I had missed the road and was stumbling among sand hummocks quite close to the sea.
I would go round among thehummocks with the idea of approaching the three bungalows inconspicuously from the flank.
It was troublesome to go further because the hummocks and the tangled bushes began.
When nearing the shoals of Ticoo, set the three hummocks on the main, which look like islands, as all the land near them is very low; and when you have these hummocks N.
We here saw two or three hummocks like islands, N.
At noon of the 6th, we had sight of two hummocks on the coast of Camboja, bearing N.
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