 | 1833 - 598 pages
...nothing but wood below wood for more than nine hundred feet. On rising to the shoulder, a view burst upon us which quite sets my descriptive powers at...of the neck, which was between six and seven feet broad, the precipice went sheer down, without a check, fifteen hundred feet to the plain. One extremity... | |
 | 1833 - 468 pages
...as you may On rising to the shoulder, a view burst upon us which quite defies my descriptive powers. We stood on a little, narrow ledge or neck of land,...of the neck, which was between six and seven feet broad, the precipice went sheer down fifteen hundred feet to the plain. One extremity of the neck was... | |
 | 1834 - 438 pages
...: — " On rising to the shoulder, a view burst upon us which quite defies rny descriptive powers. We stood on a little narrow ledge or neck of land,...of the neck, which was between six and seven feet broad, the precipice went sheer down fifteen hundred feel to the plain. One extremity of the neck was... | |
 | Late official resident - 1842 - 198 pages
...his own words. " On rising to the shoulder a view burst upon us, which defies my descriptive powers. We stood on a little narrow ledge, or neck of land,...the side which we mounted, we looked back into the deep-wooded gorge we had passed up ; while on the opposite of the neck, which was between six and seven... | |
 | Mrs. Loudon (Jane), Jane Loudon - 1848 - 426 pages
...has been published of the ascent, " a view burst upon us which quite defies my descriptive powers. We stood on a little narrow ledge or neck of land,...of the neck, which was between six and seven feet broad, the precipice went sheer down fifteen hundred feet to the plain. One extremity of the neck was... | |
 | 1849 - 142 pages
...slope. " On rising to the shoulder, a view burst upon us which quite defies my descriptive powers. We stood on a little narrow ledge or neck of land,...of the neck, which was between six and seven feet broad, the precipice went sheer down fifteen hundred feet to the plain. One extremity of the neck was... | |
 | Two creations - 1849 - 138 pages
...shoulder, a view burst upon us, which quite defies my descriptive powers. We stood on a little narrow neck of land, about twenty yards in length. On the side which we mounted, we looked back into the deep-wooded gorge we had passed up; while, on the opposite of the neck, which was between six and seven... | |
 | 1850 - 386 pages
...words:— "On rising to the shoulder, a view burst upon us which quite defies my descriptive powers. We stood on a little narrow ledge or neck of land,...mounted, we looked back into the deep wooded gorge we had pressed up; while on the opposite side of the neck, which was between six and seven feet broad, the... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1852 - 632 pages
...a view burst upon us which defies my descriptive powers. "We stood on a little narrow ledge or nock of land, about twenty yards in length. On the side which we mounted, we looked bade into the deep wooded gorge we had passed up; while on the opposite side of the neck, which was... | |
 | William Chambers - 1853 - 370 pages
...own words : — ' On rising to the shoulder, a view burst upon us which defies my descriptive powers. We stood on a little narrow ledge or neck of land,...of the neck, which was between six and seven feet broad, the precipice went sheer down 1500 feet to the plain. One extremity of the neck was equally... | |
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On rising to the shoulder, a view burst upon us which quite defies my descriptive powers. We stood on a little narrow ledge or neck of land, about twenty yards in length. On the side which we mounted, we looked back into the deep wooded gorge we had passed... 
