 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1810 - 446 lehte
...Having reached the bottom of the steps, we found a handsome vaulted passage cut through solid limestone. The light of our candles discovered that it extended...the solid rock. You will readily believe that this adventure was a delightful recreation. I never felt more forcibly the power of contrast. Instead of... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1810 - 874 lehte
...five ffd. reckoning from the same place. "On this unexpected, and to meat that moment, inaifrthtnsible canal, we found launched a large, clean and convenient...We embarked, and pulled ourselves along, by taking ho:t! of wooden pegs, fixed for that purpose in the walls. Ourprogress was through a passage wholly... | |
 | 1832 - 478 lehte
...Having reached the bottom of the steps, we found a handsome vaulted passage cut through solid limestone. The light of our candles discovered that it extended...the solid rock. You will readily believe that this adventure was a delightful recreation. I never felt more forcibly the power of contrast. Instead of... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1833 - 288 lehte
...set of cellar stairs. The passage was regularly arched with brick, and was in aH respects convenient. On this unexpected, and to me, at that moment, incomprehensible...taking hold of wooden pegs, fixed for that purpose iti the walls. Our progress was through a passage wholly artificial, it having been all blasted and... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1838 - 270 lehte
...Having reached the bottom of the steps, we found a handsome vaulted passage cut through solid limestone. The light of our candles discovered that it extended...the solid rock. You will readily believe that this adventure was a delightful recreation. I never felt more forcibly the power of contrast. Instead of... | |
 | Mary Ann Sturges - 1852 - 58 lehte
...entrance to this passage was perfectly similar in form to the mouth of a common oven, only much larger. On this unexpected, and, to me at that moment, incomprehensible canal, we found launched a large and convenient boat, and a guide, with two oars ; regularly on each side of this boat were placed lighted... | |
 | 1855 - 506 lehte
...feet, reckoning from the same place. On this unexpected, and to me, at that moment, inconiprehmsible canal, we found launched a large, clean and' convenient...the solid rock. You will readily believe that this adventure was a delightful recreation. I never felt more forcibly the power of contrast. Instead of... | |
 | James Macaulay - 1879 - 418 lehte
...feet, reckoning from the same place. On this unexpected, and to me, at that moment, incompreJiensible canal, we found launched a large, clean, and convenient...the solid rock. You will readily believe that this adventure was a delightful recreation. I never f felt more forcibly the power of contrast. Instead... | |
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The entrance of this passage was perfectly similar in form to the mouth of a common oven, only it was much larger. Its breadth, by my estimation, was about five feet at the water's surface, and its height four or five feet, reckoning from the same place.... 