Travel and Adventure: Comprising Some of the Most Striking Narratives on RecordDavis Wasgatt Clark A. Poe & L. Hitchcock, 1864 - 416 sider |
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Side 71
... hight can be scanned at once from the opposite eminences . For seven thousand feet below the top Mont Blanc is perpetually covered with ice and snow . The distance from the bottom to the top , by the shortest route 71 ASCENT OF MONT BLANC.
... hight can be scanned at once from the opposite eminences . For seven thousand feet below the top Mont Blanc is perpetually covered with ice and snow . The distance from the bottom to the top , by the shortest route 71 ASCENT OF MONT BLANC.
Side 72
... once into view , oppresses his imagination with a vastness unexpected even in that land of Alpine grandeur . While the vale below smiles with the most luxuriant vege- tation , the sides of the hills are clothed , for a considerable way ...
... once into view , oppresses his imagination with a vastness unexpected even in that land of Alpine grandeur . While the vale below smiles with the most luxuriant vege- tation , the sides of the hills are clothed , for a considerable way ...
Side 95
... once excited . Again he listened ; but all was hushed , and the brig still stood steadily in toward the shore . Nearer and nearer she ap- proached ; till , alarmed for her safety , the man ran to summon the nearest officer . By the time ...
... once excited . Again he listened ; but all was hushed , and the brig still stood steadily in toward the shore . Nearer and nearer she ap- proached ; till , alarmed for her safety , the man ran to summon the nearest officer . By the time ...
Side 104
... once a public house ; and notwith- standing every effort to adapt it to its present purpose , it is not a safe or proper place of con- finement . It is little calculated to resist any attempt to rescue the men , whose daring con- duct ...
... once a public house ; and notwith- standing every effort to adapt it to its present purpose , it is not a safe or proper place of con- finement . It is little calculated to resist any attempt to rescue the men , whose daring con- duct ...
Side 105
... Once only during the reading , Beavers passionately denied the statements made by one of the witnesses present , and was with difficulty silenced . His countenance at that moment was terribly agi- tated ; every bad feeling seemed to ...
... Once only during the reading , Beavers passionately denied the statements made by one of the witnesses present , and was with difficulty silenced . His countenance at that moment was terribly agi- tated ; every bad feeling seemed to ...
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adventures afterward Alexander Selkirk allowed appeared arrived attempt Auldjo became Blackfeet boat bread brig brought buffalo called Captain Cinque Ports coast commanded companions crew Dampier danger death deck distance door endeavored escape father feet felt fire frigate gave governor grizzly bear hands heard hight hope horses Indians island Italy jailer Juan Fernandez land Lavalette length looked Maroncelli Medusa ment Milan miles mind Mont Blanc morning mountains mutineers natives never night Norfolk Island o'clock officers party passed Pellico person pinnace Pitcairn's Island poor prison provisions raft reached received remained returned river rope sail sailors says scarcely schooner secondini seemed seized Selkirk Senegal sent ship shore side sight Silvio Pellico situation soon Stradling suffered thing thought tion Tofoa took Townsend travelers Tude vessel voyage whole William Funnel wind wine wounded yawl