| 1843 - 628 pages
...had to bore into one of the inferior strata, and employ gunpowder. The process was new to me, and I deemed it a highly amusing one ; it had the merit,...direction, and an immense mass of the diluvium came topping down, bearing with it two dead birds that, in a recent storm, had crept into one of the deeper... | |
| Half hours - 1856 - 676 pages
...had to bore into one of the inferior strata, and employ gunpowder. The process was new to me, and I deemed it a highly amusing one : it had the merit,...flew in every direction ; and an immense mass of the diluvinm came toppling down, bearing with it two dead birds, that in a recent storm had crept into... | |
| Graduated series - 1859 - 462 pages
...had to bore into one of the inferior strata, and t-mploy gunpowder. The process was new to me, and I deemed it a highly amusing one ; it had the merit, too, of being attended with some degree of danger, as a boating or rock excursion, and ':;"! thus an interest independent of its novelty.... | |
| Fifty celebrated men - 1862 - 352 pages
...had to bore into one of the inferior strata, and employ gunpowder. The process was new to me ; and I deemed it a highly amusing one. It had the merit, too, of being attended with danger, and had thus an interest independent of its novelty. We had a few capital shots. The fragments... | |
| School board readers - 1872 - 328 pages
...had to bore into one of the inferior strata, and employ gunpowder. The process was new to me, and I deemed it a highly amusing one; it had the merit,...with some such degree of danger as a boating or rock excuision, and had thus' an interest independent of its novelty. We had a few capital shots; the fragments... | |
| Philip George and son, ltd - 1872 - 262 pages
...me, and I thought it a highly amusing one ; and its very danger added to my interest and excitement. We had a few capital shots ; the fragments flew in every direction, and an immense mass pame toppling down. The earth, in its fall, brought with it the bodies of two little birds, which had... | |
| 1872 - 264 pages
...had to bore into one of the inferior strata, and employ gunpowder. The process was new to me, and I deemed it a highly amusing one ; it had the merit, too, of being attended with some degree of danger, as a boating or rock excursion, and had thus an interest independent of its novelty.... | |
| Philip George and son, ltd - 1875 - 362 pages
...had to bore into one of the inferior strata, and employ gunpowder. The process was new Jo me, and I deemed it a highly amusing one : it had the merit,...and had thus an interest independent of its novelty. The fragments flew in every direction ; and an immense mass of the diluvium came toppling down, bearing... | |
| John C. Salmon - 1877 - 294 pages
...had to bore into one of the inferior strata, and employ gunpowder. The process was new to me, and I deemed it a highly amusing one ; it had the merit,...flew in every direction, and an immense mass of the diluvinm came toppling down, bearing with it two dead birds, that in a recent storm had crept into... | |
| New reader - 1879 - 392 pages
...inferior strata,4 and employ gunpowder. The process was new to me, and I deemed it a highly-amusing one ; it had the merit, too, of being attended with...flew in every direction ; and an immense mass of the diluvium11 came toppling down, hearing with it two dead '-'irds, that in a recent storm had crept into... | |
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