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... precipice , and was dashed to pieces . Look at it in the picture , and you will wonder that any man should be so venturous as to attempt such a thing . Yet a few years ago , a party of English gentlemen ( Englishmen , you know , will ...
... precipice , and was dashed to pieces . Look at it in the picture , and you will wonder that any man should be so venturous as to attempt such a thing . Yet a few years ago , a party of English gentlemen ( Englishmen , you know , will ...
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... precipice went shear down fifteen hundred feet to the plain . One extremity of the neck was equally precipitous , and the other was bounded by what to me was the most magnificent sight I ever saw . A narrow , knife - like edge of rock ...
... precipice went shear down fifteen hundred feet to the plain . One extremity of the neck was equally precipitous , and the other was bounded by what to me was the most magnificent sight I ever saw . A narrow , knife - like edge of rock ...
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... precipice , except in the spot where it is joined by the ridge up which we climbed . In one spot the head , though overhanging its base several feet , reaches only perpendicularly over the edge of the precipice ; and , most fortunately ...
... precipice , except in the spot where it is joined by the ridge up which we climbed . In one spot the head , though overhanging its base several feet , reaches only perpendicularly over the edge of the precipice ; and , most fortunately ...
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... precipice till it hung perpen- dicularly , and was steadied by two negroes on the ridge below . All right ; now hoist away ! ' and up went the ladder , till the foot came to the edge of our ledge , when it was lashed in firmly to the ...
... precipice till it hung perpen- dicularly , and was steadied by two negroes on the ridge below . All right ; now hoist away ! ' and up went the ladder , till the foot came to the edge of our ledge , when it was lashed in firmly to the ...
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... precipice of one hundred and sixty feet , shear into the gulf below . A cloud of spray rises high above the woody banks that overhang the gulf , in whose depths the waters , as if maddened and giddy with their awful leap , whirl , and ...
... precipice of one hundred and sixty feet , shear into the gulf below . A cloud of spray rises high above the woody banks that overhang the gulf , in whose depths the waters , as if maddened and giddy with their awful leap , whirl , and ...
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