The travellers had to pick their way : one while upon smooth surfaces of granite, sloping to the raging torrent ; at another, the route led among huge masses and angular blocks of rock, forming capacious caves, where fifty or sixty people might rest :... The Edinburgh Journal of Science - Page 2791826Full view - About this book
| 1826 - 272 pages
...concussion, re-echoed from bank to bank with a noise like thunder. The dell of the Tidung, at Htins, a Tartar village, is confined by towering cliffs of...others, framework, or rude staircases, opening to the gulph below. In one place is a construction still more frightful to behold; it is called Rapid, and... | |
| 1826 - 842 pages
...rough gravel, steeply inclined to the river; there the path was narrow, with a precipice of 500 or GOO feet below, whilst the naked towering peaks, and mural...others, framework, or rude staircases, opening to the gulph below. In one place -is a construction »truction still more frightful to behold ; it is called... | |
| Josiah Conder - 1828 - 412 pages
...inclined to the river ; there, the path was narrow, with a precipice of 500 or 600 feet below, while the naked towering peaks and mural rocks, rent in...ruin from above. In. some parts of the road, there are nights of steps ; in others, frame-work, or rude staircases, opening to the gulf below. In one... | |
| Robert Montgomery Martin - 1837 - 390 pages
...composed of rough gravel steeply inclined to the river, — there the path was narrow with precipices of 500 or 600 feet below, whilst the naked towering...passenger with ruin from above. In some parts of the roads there were flights of steps, in others frame work or rude staircases opening to the gulph below.... | |
| Robert Montgomery Martin - 1837 - 392 pages
...composed of rough gravel steeply inclined to the river, — there the path was narrow with precipices of 500 or 600 feet below, whilst the naked towering...passenger with ruin from above. In some parts of the roads there were flights of steps, in others frame work or rude staircases opening to the gulph below.... | |
| James William Massie - 1840 - 512 pages
...gravel, steeply inclined to the river; there the path was narrow, with precipices of five or six hundred feet below; whilst the naked towering peaks and mural...rude staircases, opening to the gulf below. In one instance, the passage consisted of six posts driven horizontally into clefts of the rocks, about twenty... | |
| 1840 - 516 pages
...gravel, steeply inclined to the river ; there the path was narrow, with precipices of five or six hundred feet below, whilst the naked towering peaks and mural...of the road, there were flights of steps, in others frame- work, or rude staircases, opening to the gulf below. In one instance, the passage consisted... | |
| Sir William Lloyd - 1810 - 708 pages
...600 feet were knobbed with granite and a blue stone, and here and there a bank of clay and rubble. In some parts of the road there were flights of steps, in others framework of rude stair-cases, opening to a gulf below, and embracing ruin from above. In one place is a construction,... | |
| Sir William Lloyd, Alexander Gerard - 1846 - 718 pages
...600 feet were knobbed with granite and a blue stone, and here and there a bank of clay and rubble. In some parts of the road there were flights of steps, in others framework of rude stair-cases, opening to a gulf below, and embracing ruin from above. In one place is a construction,... | |
| 1875 - 520 pages
...travellers had to pick their way : one while upon smooth surfaces of granite, sloping to the rapring torrent: at another, the route led among huge masses...framework, or rude staircases, opening to the gulf below. lu one place is a construction still more frightful to behold ; it is called Rapia, and is made with... | |
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