 Though the sides of this bridge are provided in some parts with a parapet of fixed rocks, yet few men have resolution to walk to them, and look over into the abyss. You involuntarily fall on your hands and feet, creep to the parapet, and peep over it....  The Monthly Magazine - Page 2441808Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Jefferson - Indians of North America - 1803 - 388 pages
...this bridge are provided in some parts with a parapet of fixed rocks, yet- few men have reBolution to walk to them, and look over into the abyss. You involuntarily fall on your hands and feet, creep to the parapet, and peep over it. Look ing down from this height about a minute gave... | |
 | Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 546 pages
...the cord of the arch, is many times longer than its transverse. Though the sides of this Bridge are provided in some parts with a parapet of fixed rocks,...your hands, creep to the parapet; and peep over it. Looking down front this height about a minute gave me a violent head-ache. If the view from tlie top... | |
 | Edward Polehampton - 1815 - 540 pages
...the cord of the arch, is many times longer than its transveise. Though the sides of this Bridge are provided in some parts with a parapet of fixed rocks,...into the abyss. You involuntarily fall on your hands, i reep to the parapet; and peep over it. Looking down from this height about a minute gave me a violent... | |
 | Rev. Edward Polehampton, John Mason Good - Natural history - 1818 - 566 pages
...is many times longer than its transverse. Though the sides of this Bridge are provided in some parls with a parapet of fixed rocks, yet few men have resolution...your hands, creep to the parapet; and peep over it. Looking down from this height •bout a minute gave me a violent head-ache. If the view from the top... | |
 | Francis Hall - Canada - 1818 - 944 pages
...bridge " are provided, in some parts, with a parapet " of fixed rocks, yet few men have the re" solution to walk to them, and look over " into the abyss. You involuntarily fall " upon your hands and feet, creep to the " parapet, and peep over it. Looking " down from this height... | |
 | Decorative arts - 1822 - 466 pages
...the chord of the arch, is many times longer than its transverse. Though the sides of this bridge are provided in some parts with a parapet of fixed rocks,...them, and look over into the abyss. You involuntarily full on your hands, creep to the parapet, and peep over it. Looking down from this height about a minute... | |
 | Charles Bucke - Nature - 1823 - 416 pages
...de Chastellux, of the Virginian bridge of rocks. " Though the sides of the bridge," says he, " are provided, in some parts, with a parapet of fixed rocks,...to walk to them, and look over into the abyss. You voluntarily fall on your hands and feet, creep to the parapet, and look over it. Looking from the height... | |
 | Adam Hodgson - Canada - 1824 - 442 pages
...sides of this bridge are provided, in some parts, with a parapet of fixed rocks, yet few men have the resolution to walk to them, and look over into the abyss. You involuntarily fall upon your hands and feet, creep to the parapet, and peep over it; looking down from this height about... | |
 | Bernhard (Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach) - United States - 1828 - 478 pages
...the chord of the arch, is many times longer than the transverse. Though the sides of this bridge are provided in some parts with a parapet of fixed rocks,...into the abyss. You involuntarily fall on your hands and feet, creep to the parapet, and peep over it. Looking down from this height about a minute, gave... | |
 | J[ohn] H[anbury]. Dwyer - Elocution - 1828 - 314 pages
...de Chastelluse, of the Virginian bridge of rocks. " Though the sides of the bridge," says he, " are provided, in some parts, with a parapet of fixed rocks,...to walk to them, and look over into the abyss. You voluntarily fall on your hands and knees, creep to the parapet, and look over it. Looking from the... | |
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