 ... determine their relative strength. When this has been fairly ascertained, they advance to the brink of the precipice; and, taking each other by the tail, the weakest descends first, while the strongest, forming the last in the row, suspends the whole...  Travels in Sweden, Denmark, and Norway - Page 1671826 - 179 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ebenezer Henderson - 1819 - 634 pages
...strongest, forming the last in the row, suspends the whole number till the foremost has reached their prey. A signal is then given, on which the uppermost...him as well as they can with their feet against the rocks. In this way they proceed from rock to rock, until they have provided themselves with a sufficient... | |
 | 1823 - 496 pages
...strongest, forming the last in the row, suspends the whole number, till the foremost has reached their prey. A signal is then given, on which the uppermost...him as well as they can with their feet against the rocks ; in this manner they proceed from rock to rock, until they have provided themselves with a sufficient... | |
 | 1824 - 612 pages
...the last in the row, suspends the whole number, till the foremost has reached their prey. A signal ts then given, on which the uppermost fox pulls with...him as well as they can with their feet against the rocks; in this manner they proceed from rock to rock, until they have provided themselves, with a sufficient... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1824 - 616 pages
...strongest, forming the last in the row, suspends the whole number, till the foremost has reached their prey. A signal is then given, on which the uppermost...might and the rest assist him as well as they can with theirfeet against the rocks; in this manner they proceed from rock to rock, until they have provided... | |
 | Llewelyn Lloyd - 1831 - 468 pages
...strongest, forming the last in the row, suspends the whole number, till the foremost has reached their prey; a signal is then given, on which the uppermost...him as well as they can with their feet against the rocks ; in this manner they proceed from rock to rock, until they have provided themselves with a sufficient... | |
 | 1834 - 536 pages
...suspends the whole number, till the foremost has reached their prey. A signal is then given, on which tho uppermost fox pulls with all his might, and the rest...him as well as they can with their feet against the rocks; in this manner they proceed from rock to rock, until they have provided themselves with a sufficient... | |
 | 1835 - 284 pages
...strongest, forming the last in the row, suspends the whole number, till the foremost has reached their prey. A signal is then given, on which the uppermost...him as well as they can with their feet against the rocks; in this manner they proceed from rock to rock, until they have provided themselves with a sufficient... | |
 | 1835 - 272 pages
...strongest, forming the last in the row, suspends the whole number, till the foremost has reached their prey. A signal is then given, on which the uppermost...him as well as they can with their feet against the rocks ; in this manner they proceed from rock to rock, until they have provided themselves with a sufficient... | |
 | 1824 - 618 pages
...strongest, forming the last in the row, suspends the whole number, till the foremost has reached their prey. A signal is then given, on which the uppermost...him as well as they can with their feet against the rocks; in this manner they proceed from rock to rock, until they have provided themselves with a sufficient... | |
 | 1848 - 422 pages
...by the tail, the weakest descends first, while the strongest, forming the last in the row, suspends the whole number, till the foremost has reached the...him as well as they can, with their feet against the rocks: in this manner they proceed from rock to rock, until they have provided themselves with a sufficient... | |
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