 ... it required every exertion and care to guard against a slip of about a hundred feet into a current, which dashed with great force amongst fragments of marble, which in two or three points actually formed a bridge across the stream. — In another...  Asiatic Researches - Page 372by Asiatick Society (Calcutta, India) - 1818Full view - About this book
 | Asia - 1817 - 696 pages
...actually formed a bridge across the stream. In another part we were obliged to climb up Journ. — No. 23. the face of a rock nearly perpendicular, and on which,...distance. My left foot having slipped off one of them, 1 lay for a few seconds upon the poise, but a snatch at a clump of grass, which on being seized, luckily... | |
 | English literature - 1817 - 610 pages
...must necessarily be made for its accuracy. ' We were obliged (Mr. Moorcroft says) to climb up rocks nearly perpendicular, and on which irregularities,...to hang upon, were at a most inconvenient distance ;' to pass where ' points of rock projected to the edge of the river, and these were turned by rude... | |
 | English literature - 1817 - 592 pages
...must necessarily be made for its accuracy. ' We were obliged (Mr. Moorcroft says) to climb up rocks nearly perpendicular, and on which irregularities,...to hang upon, were at a most inconvenient distance ;' to pass where ' points of rock projected to the edge of the river, and these were turned by rude... | |
 | Asiatic Society of Bengal - Archaeology - 1818 - 642 pages
...and pyrites is found in great abundance. Close to this place the road was broken by a recent a ,• slip, and we had to pass upon the crumbling surface....spot, with the loss of some skin from my knees and elbows, and some rents in my trowsers and sleeves. — Sometimes points of rock projected to the edge... | |
 | Hugh Murray - Asia - 1820 - 558 pages
...they were to be leaped over. Sometimes faces of rock almost perpendicular were to be scaled, where " irregularities for the toe to hang upon were at a " most inconvenient distance." At one place Mr Moorcroft's foot slipped, and he was for a moment poised in the air, till by a leap... | |
 | 1817 - 626 pages
...must necessarily be made for its accuracy. ' We were obliged (Mr. Moorcroft says) to climb up rocks nearly perpendicular, and on which irregularities,...to hang upon, were at a most inconvenient distance ;' to pass where ' points of rock projected to the edge of the river, and these were turned by rude... | |
 | British - 1875 - 528 pages
...this or any other mountain which I have yet met with ; but many abound with minerals ; and pyrites are found in great abundance. Close to this place the...being seized, luckily did not give way, and a sudden sprmg, brought me to a comparatively safe spot, with the loss of some skin from my knees and elbows,... | |
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