| Edinburgh gazetteer - Atlases - 1822 - 770 pages
...darkness of which is increased by the thick vegetation that covers the opening above. The oxen, which arc the beasts of burden commonly made use of in this country, can varcely torce their way through the.se galleries, some of which are 6556 feet in length ; and if, perchance,... | |
| Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 820 pages
...thick vegetation that covers the opening above. The oxen, which are the beasts of burden commonly used in this country, can scarcely force their way through...of which are more than a mile in length ; and if, perchance, the traveller meets them in one of these passages, he finds no means of avoiding them but... | |
| Josiah Conder - Voyages and travels - 1830 - 360 pages
...passage, the darkness of which is increased by the thick vegetation that covers the opening above. The oxen, which are the beasts of burden commonly...their way through these galleries, some of which are ^,000 yards in length; and if perchance the traveller meets them in one of these passages, he finds... | |
| 1837 - 486 pages
...passage, the darkness of which is increased by the thick vegetation that covers the opening above. The oxen, which are the beasts of burden commonly...their way through these galleries, some of which are two thousand metres (two thousand, two hundred yards) in length ; and if, perchance, the traveller... | |
| 1837 - 490 pages
...passage, the darkness of which is increased by the thick vegetation that covers the opening above. The oxen, which are the beasts of burden commonly...their way through these galleries, some of which are two thousand metres (two thousand, two hundred yards) in length ; and if, perchance, the traveller... | |
| John Ramsay McCulloch - Geography - 1841 - 1052 pages
...grows out from both sides of the crevice, so that the traveller is forced to grope his way in darkness. The oxen, which are the beasts of burden commonly...than a mile in length ; and if the traveller should keeping himself suspended by laying hold of the roots which penetrate to this depth from the surface... | |
| John Ramsay McCulloch - Geography - 1843 - 586 pages
...darkness. The oxen, which are the beauts of burden commonly made me of in this country, can «carcely force their way through these galleries, some of which...traveller should happen to meet them in one of the pasBOfree, he líos no means of avoiding them hut by climbing the earthen wall which borders the crevice,... | |
| John Ramsay McCulloch - Commercial geography - 1846 - 1084 pages
...is forced to grope his way in darkness. The oxen, which are the beasts of burden commonly made usf of in this country, can scarcely force their way through these galleries, some of which are mure than a mile in length; and if the traveller should bridges are made of twisted strands or thongs... | |
| John Ramsay McCulloch - Geography - 1847 - 1176 pages
...forced to grope his way in darkness. Tbe oxen, which are the beasts of burden commonly made use of la this country, can scarcely force their way through these galleries, some of which arc more than a mile in length ; and if the traveller should happen to meet them in one of the passages,... | |
| John Ramsay McCulloch, John Ramsay M'Culloch - Commercial geography - 1851 - 1078 pages
...sides of the crevice, so that the traveller is forced to grope his way in darkness. The oicn, whii-h are the beasts of burden commonly made use of in this...force their way through these galleries, some of which arc more than a mile in length ; and if the traveller should happen to meet them in one of the passages,... | |
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