 | Charles Fenno Hoffman - 1835 - 360 pàgines
...any other country. The creek, which is about seven yards wide, and has a general course about S. 15 W., here passes through a hill elevated from two to...is left to grope in the dark through a distance of about twenty yards, occupying an intermediate portion of the tunnel. When the sun is near the meridian,... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman - 1835 - 704 pàgines
...any other country. The creek, which is about seven yards wide, and has a general course about S. 15 W., here passes through a hill elevated from two to...is left to grope in the dark through a distance of about twenty yard*, occupying an intermediate portion of the tunnel. When the sun is near the meridian,... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman - 1835 - 360 pàgines
...cavity of which, while it stood, Blteen persons are said to have encamped at the same tim* together the left, again to the right, and then again to the...is left to grope in the dark through a distance of about twenty yards, occupying an intermediate portion of the tunnel. When the sun is near the meridian,... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman - 1835 - 364 pàgines
...the cavity or which, while it stood, fifteen persons are said to have encamped at the same tim« ua the left, again to the right, and then again to the...is left to grope in the dark through a distance of about twenty yards, occupying an intermediate portion of the tunnel. When the sun is near the meridian,... | |
 | Joseph Martin, William Henry Brockenbrough - 1835 - 644 pàgines
...the stream, winding its way through a huge subterraneous cavern, or grotto, whose roof is vaulted in continuous curve, resembling the letter S, first winding...then again to the left, on arriving at the entrance 'The hill through which this singular perforation leads, descends in a direction from east to west,... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman - 1835 - 362 pàgines
...cavity of which, while it stood, fifteen persons are said to have encamped at the same tim* together the left, again to the right, and then again to the left, on arrivingat the entrance on the lower side. Such is its peculiar form, that an observer standing at... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1845 - 562 pàgines
...subterraneous cavern, or grotto, whose roof is vaulted in a peculiar manner, and rises from seventy to eighty feet above its floor. The sides of this gigantic...is left to grope in the dark through a distance of about twenty yards, occupying an intermediate portion of the tunnel When the sun is near the meridian,... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1845 - 616 pàgines
...perpendicularly in some places to the height of fifteen or twenty feet, and in others, are formed by,the springing of its vaulted roof immediately from its...is left to grope in the dark through a distance of about twenty yards, occupying an intermediate portion of the tunnel. When the sun ie near the meridian,... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1852 - 614 pàgines
...subterraneous cavern, or grotto, whose roof is vaulted in a peculiar manner, and rises from seventy to eighty feet above its floor. The sides of this gigantic...a view of either entrance, and is left to grope in th« dark through a distance of about twenty yards, occupying an intermediate portion of the tunnel.... | |
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... springing of its vaulted roof immediately from its floor. The width of the tunnel varies from fifty to one hundred and fifty feet; its course is that of a continuous curve, resembling the letter S, first winding to the right as we enter on the upper... 