 The whole view so much exceeded, and differed from my expectations, that I could not help feeling that there was in it a certain sublimity — though I suppose few will understand the application of the term to such a scene. Tents are almost the only...  From New York to Delhi - Page 27by Robert Bowne Minturn - 1858 - 488 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Waylen - 1839 - 392 pages
...not even bearing a comparison with other towns of the same size. Hardly a square yard of flagging was to be seen from one end of it to the other ; the occasional occurrence of posts and pavement before some solitary door, rather tending to trip up the... | |
 | Robert Bowne Minturn - 1858 - 508 pages
...two or three broad, filled throughout its whole extent by white cotton tents — a sea of canvass 1 The whole view so much exceeded, and differed from...however, fortunate in witnessing the discovery of any lartje nng<je,ts. The holes are, some of them, from 150 to 200 feet deep. They are always worked by... | |
 | Robert Bowne Minturn - 1858 - 526 pages
...burst on the view. I say " burst on the view," for you mount the hill which surrounds the place without seeing any outlying tents or huts, and, all at once,...one end of it to the other. The tents are regularly kid out in streets, and just wide enough apart to allow of a shaft being sunk between them. I went... | |
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