Word: coasted
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Harvard Yacht club has made plans for a club cruise next summer, along the coast of New England. A number of members have already decided to go, some only for a short time, and others for the whole cruise. The fleet will start from New Haven on July 22 and will sail eastward to Newport, disbanding there the day before the arrival of the New York Yacht Club. Later in the summer, the "North of the Cape" division of the fleet will rendezvous at Marblehead, and cruise to Isleboro...
...scene of the second act of the play is laid on the North American coast in the early fall of the year 1001. The Indians see the Viking ship approaching. It draws near, and Leif, who with Tyrker, Sigurd and a crew of Vikings, has sailed from the village of Magnus Jarl in Norway to seek America, comes to the shore. At the invitation of Po-ko hokit, Leif and Tyrker go to see the Indian village...
...presses his suit, he is scorned by her. Sigurd, then makes advances to Sylvia's father, the Jarl, but is again repulsed. At this juncture a ship is sighted in the offing. It proves to be that of Bjarne, who is returning from a voyage to the North American coast...
Professor Agassiz is now abroad visiting his scientific friends and examining the museums of the different universities. He has been to Munich, Leipsic, Vienna, Prague and Berlin and before returning in April he will visit the Mediterranean coast, and will spend some time in England and Scotland...
...planned that twenty men at a cost of 8500 apiece charter the steamer "Leopard," of 320 tones (gross) and explore the coasts of Greenland as far as Disko, of Baffin Land to the head of Frobisher Bay, and of Labrador, including Ungana bay and the high mountain ranges on the northern coast. The "Leopard" has sufficient coal capacity for this cruise, is built to penetrate ice-fields, and would be very roomy for a party of twenty. The chief aim of this expedition will be to combine geological sight-seeing with as much serious exploration as possible...