 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1846 - 312 pages
...altogether inaccessible, from the vast extent of the fields of snow and ice which surrounded it. ****** The ascent for some time was not steep, and as the surface of the snow sunk a little, we had tolerable good footing ; but as it soon began to grow steeper, we found our labour greatly increased... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1850 - 318 pages
...inaccessible, from the vast extent ' of the fields of snow and ice which surrounded it. •*•*** The ascent for some time was not steep,, and as the surface of the snow sunk a little, we had tolerable good footing ; but as it soon began to grow steeper, we found our labour greatly increased... | |
 | Education - 1859 - 396 pages
...descried the high summit of the mountain, rearing its tremendous head, and vomiting out torrents of smoke. The ascent for some time was not steep, and, as the surface of the snow sank a little, we had tolerably good footing ; but, as it soon began to grow steeper, we found our... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Readers (Secondary) - 1861 - 562 pages
...pub Ivshed in 1773. 1t is written in an easy and graceful style, and was quite populai ln its itay.] THE ascent for some time was not steep, and as the surface of the snow sunk a little, we had tolerably good footing ; but as it soon began to grow steeper, we found our labor greatly increase.... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1870 - 340 pages
...descried the high summit of the mountain, rearing its tremendous head, and vomiting out torrents of smoke. The ascent, for some time, was not steep, and, as the surface of the snow sank a little, we had tolerably good footing; but, as it soon began to grow steeper, we found our labor... | |
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The ascent for some time was not steep, and as the surface of the snow sunk a little, we had tolerable good footing ; but as it soon began to grow steeper, we found our labour greatly... 
