I am aware that it may be objected that the average rate here proposed is a purely arbitrary and conjectural one, because, at the North Cape, it is supposed that there has been a rise of about 5 feet in a century, and at spitsbergen, according to Mr. Lamont, a still faster upheaval during the last 400 years.
"The Antiquity of Man"
Charles Lyell
Tough-mindedness, singleness of purpose, the glacial speed of fairness along the sorted, sordid circles of spitsbergen.
"Point Spread Poems"
Paul Cameron Brown
The manner in which it did reach spitsbergen and Greenland will be discussed more fully below, and I will therefore proceed to mention the other Arctic mammals.
"The History of the European Fauna"
R. F. Scharff