 Indian, who, in pursuit of a llama up the steep, to save himself from falling caught hold of a shrub, which being torn from the soil exposed a mass of solid silver at the roots ; it was that mountain, incapable of producing even a blade of grass, which...  A Universal Pronouncing Gazetteer ... - Side 463af Thomas Baldwin - 1852 - 747 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1830 - 620 sider
...Peruvian, who, in pursuit of a llama up the steep side of a mountain, to save himself from falling, caught hold of a shrub which, being torn from the soil, exposed a mass of solid silver at the roots. According to Mr. Temple's MS., however, ' the Indian at night made a fire on the side of the mountain,... | |
 | Edmond Temple - 1830 - 466 sider
...merest accident, by an Indian who, in pursuit of a llama up the steep, to save himself from falling caught hold of a shrub, which being torn from the soil exposed a mass of solid silver at the roots ; — it was that mountain, incapable of producing even a blade of grass, which yet had attractions... | |
 | 1830 - 658 sider
...merest accident, by an Indian, who, in pursuit of a llama up the steep, to save himself from falling caught hold of a shrub, which being torn from the soil exposed a mass of solid silver at the roots; it was that mountain, incapable of producing even a blade of grass, which yet had attractions sufficient... | |
 | 1830 - 462 sider
...accident, by an Indian, who, in pursuit of a llama up the steep, to save himself from falling, etinght hold of a shrub, which, being torn from the soil, exposed a mass of solid silver at the roots ; it was that mountain, incapable of producing even a blade of grass, whicli yet had attractions sufficient... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1830 - 566 sider
...merest accident, b) an Indian who, in pnnmit of a llama up the steep, to save himself from filling caught hold of a shrub, which being torn from the soil exposed a mass of solid silver al the roots; — it was that mountain. Incapable of producing even a blade of grass, which yet had... | |
 | 1830 - 436 sider
...Indian who in pursuit of a llama up the steep, to save himself from falling, caught hold of a shruh, which being torn from the soil exposed a mass of solid silver at the roots, it was that mountain incapable of producing even a blade of grass which yet had attractions sufficient... | |
 | 1830 - 456 sider
...merest accident, by an Indian, who, in pursuit of a llama up the steep, to save himself from falling, caught hold of a shrub, which, being torn from the soil, exposed я mass of solid silver at the roots; it was that mountain, incapable of producing even a blade of... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1845 - 358 sider
...merest accident ; — by an Indian who in pursuit of a llama up a steep, to save himself from falling, caught hold of a shrub, which being torn from the soil, exposed a mas; of solid silver at the roots. It was that mountain, incapable of producing even a blade of grass,... | |
 | Thomas Baldwin - 1846 - 664 sider
...above the sea, on the W. declivity of the Cerro de Potosí, near its base. This mountain, which lias the shape of a perfect cone, and rises to an elevation...36' S., Lon. about 65° 30' W. Pop. in 1826, about 12,000 (PC), but when the mines were in the most flourishing state, the town was estimated to contain... | |
 | James Whitton - 1861 - 462 sider
...1545, who being, in pursuit of a lama on the steep, declivity, in order to save himself from falling caught hold of a shrub, which being torn from the soil, exposed a quantity of solid silver at the roots. The mines have been wrought ever since, and have produced immense... | |
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