 | 1823 - 450 pages
...broken, making us often wish during our descent, that we had never undertaken an exploit so hazardous. In addition to the danger to be apprehended from the...cold and slippery, that we could have no dependence on our benumbed fingers, if our feet failed us. Then, to сошplete our apprehensions, as we mentioned... | |
 | 1823 - 704 pages
...broken, making us often wish, during our descent, that we had never undertaken an exploit so hazardous. In addition to the danger to be apprehended from the...rendered so cold and slippery, that we could have no de. pendence upon our benumbed fingers, if our feet failed us. Then, to complete our apprehensions,... | |
 | 1825 - 428 pages
...broken, making us often wish, during our descent, that v,Te had never undertaken an exploit so hazardous. In addition to the danger to be apprehended from the...ladders, the staves were covered with ice or mud ; and thiu rendered so cold and slippery, that we could have no dépendance upon our benumbed fingers, if... | |
 | Abraham Thompson Lowe - 1831 - 232 pages
...danger to be apprehended from the damaged state of the ladders, the staves were covered with ice and mud, and thus rendered so cold and slippery, that...dependence upon our benumbed fingers if our feet failed us. 8. Then, to complete our apprehensions, as we mentioned this to the miners, they said, •' Have a... | |
 | 1832 - 602 pages
...broken, making us often wish, during our descent, that we had never undertaken an exploit so hazardous. In addition to the danger to be apprehended from the...cold and slippery, that we could have no dependence on our benumbed fingers if our feet failed us. Then to complete our apprehension, as we mentioned this... | |
 | 1840 - 494 pages
...broken, making us often wish, during our descent, that we had never undertaken an exploit so hazardous. In addition to the danger to be apprehended from the...rendered so cold and slippery that we could have no dependance upon our benumbed fingers, if our feet failed us. Then, to complete, our apprehensions,... | |
 | 1845 - 558 pages
...broken, making us often wish, during our descent, that we had never undertaken an exploit so hazardous. In addition to the danger to be apprehended from the...fingers, if our feet failed us. Then, to complete our apprehension, as we mentioned this to the miners, they said, ' Have a care ! — It was just so,' talking... | |
 | 1850 - 386 pages
...broken, making us often wish, during our descent, that we had never undertaken an exploit so hazardous. In addition to the danger to be apprehended from the...cold and slippery, that we could have no dependence on our benumbed fingers if our feet failed us. Then to complete our apprehension, as we mentioned this... | |
 | 1856 - 642 pages
...to this mine, unfortunately occurred to me:— 'In addition to the danger to be apprehended from the state of the ladders, the staves were covered with ice or mud, and rendered so slippery, that we could have no dependence on our hands if our feet failed us.' Then, to... | |
 | Pictorial cabinet - 1878 - 574 pages
...broken, making us often wish, during our descent, that we had never undertaken an exploit so hazardous. In addition to the danger to be apprehended from the damaged state of the ladder, the staves were covered with ice or mud, and thus rendered so cold and slippery that we could... | |
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Cornwall, the staves of the ladders are alternately bars of wood and iron ; here they were of wood only, and in some parts rotten and broken, making us often wish, during our descent, that we had never undertaken an exploit so hazardous. In addition to... 