 It was conducted over pathless sierras buried in snow; galleries were cut for leagues through the living rock ; rivers were crossed by means of bridges that swung suspended in the air; precipices were scaled by stairways hewn out of the native bed; ravines...  Chambers's Papers for the People - Page 29edited by - 1854Full view - About this book
 | William Hickling Prescott - Incas - 1847 - 714 pages
...the ocean. The former was much the more difficult achievement, from the character of the country. lt was conducted over pathless sierras buried in snow;...times, were encountered and successfully overcome. The length of the road, of which scattered fragments only remain, is variously estimated from fifteen hundred... | |
 | American periodicals - 1847 - 640 pages
...scaled by stairways hewn out of the native bed ; ravines of hideous depth were filled up with eolid masonry ; in short, all the difficulties that beset...times, were encountered and successfully overcome. The length of the road, of which scattered fragments only remain, is variously estimated from fifteen hundred... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1847 - 546 pages
...masonry ; in short, all the difficulties that beset a wild and mountainous region, and which might appall the most courageous engineer of modern times, were encountered and successfully overcome. The length of the road, of which scattered fragments only remain, is variously estimated, from fifteen... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1847 - 550 pages
...masonry ; in short, all the difficulties that beset a wild and mountainous region, and which might appall the most courageous engineer of modern times, were encountered and successfully overcome. The length of the road, of which scattered fragments only remain, is variously estimated, from fifteen... | |
 | 1848 - 350 pages
...of the ocean. The former was much the more difficult achievement, from the character of the country. It was conducted over pathless sierras buried in snow;...times, were encountered and successfully overcome. The length of the road, of which scattered fragments only remain, is variously estimated from fifteen hundred... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - Incas - 1848 - 530 pages
...of the ocean. The former was much the more difficult achievement, from the character of the country. It was conducted over pathless sierras buried in snow;...times, were encountered and successfully overcome. The length of the road, of which scattered fragments only remain, is variously estimated from fifteen hundred... | |
 | 1850 - 682 pages
...; in short, all the difficulties that beset a wild and mountainous region, and which mightappalthe most courageous engineer of modern times, were encountered and successfully overcome. The length of the- road, of which scattered fragments j only remain, is variously estimated from fifteen... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1851 - 782 pages
...mountain-road across the rugged summits of the Andes that the Peruvian road-builders expended then- whole energy and ingenuity. This road passing along...caravans of llamas, which animals are still used in Peru as beasts of burden. The bridges alluded to above were made of thick ropes manufactured of the... | |
 | John Francis - Railroads - 1851 - 642 pages
...Frescott says in hu " History of Peru," speaking of its road, " It was conducted over pathless sierru buried in snow ; galleries were cut for leagues through...times, were encountered and successfully overcome. The length of the road, of which scattered fragments only remain, is variously estimated from 1,500 to... | |
 | John Francis (of the Bank of England.) - Railroads - 1851 - 332 pages
...native bed ; ravines of hideous depth were filled up with solid masonry ; in short, all the difliculties that beset a wild and mountainous region, and which...times, were encountered and successfully overcome. The length of the road, of which scattered fragments only remain, is variously estimated from 1,500 to... | |
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