 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1847 - 550 pagine
...conducted over pathless sierras buried in snow; galleries were cut for leagues through the living rock ; rivers were crossed by means of bridges that swung...with solid masonry ; in short, all the difficulties that beset a wild and mountainous region, and which might appall the most courageous engineer of modern... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1847 - 546 pagine
...conducted over pathless sierras buried in snow ; galleries were cut for leagues through the living rock ; rivers were crossed by means of bridges that swung...with solid masonry ; in short, all the difficulties that beset a wild and mountainous region, and which might appall the most courageous engineer of modern... | |
 | 1847 - 640 pagine
...conducted over pathless sierras buried in snow ; galleries were cut for leagues through the living rock ; rivers were crossed by means of bridges that swung suspended in the air ; preci. pices were scaled by stairways hewn out of the native bed ; ravines of hideous depth were... | |
 | 1848 - 350 pagine
...conducted over pathless sierras buried in snow; galleries were cut for leagues through the living rock; rivers were crossed by means of bridges that swung...with solid masonry; in short, all the difficulties that beset a wild and mountainous region, and which might appal the most courageous engineer of modern... | |
 | 1849 - 106 pagine
...pathless sierras (mountains) buried in snow. Galleries were cut for leagues through the living rock; rivers were crossed by means of bridges that swung...with solid masonry ; in short, all the difficulties that beset a wild and mountainous region were encountered and successfully overcome by these industrious... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1871 - 440 pagine
...with snow; galleries were cut for leagues through living rock; rivers were crossed by means of bridges suspended in the air ; precipices were scaled by stairways hewn out of the natural bed ; and ravines of hideous depth were filled up with solid masonry." However much we may... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1850 - 604 pagine
...was conducted over pathless sierra buried in mow ; galleries were cut for leagues through the rock ; rivers were crossed by means of bridges that swung...with solid masonry; in short, all the difficulties that beset a wild and mountainous region, and which might appal the most courageous engineer of modern... | |
 | 1850 - 682 pagine
...conducted over pathless sierras buried in snow; galleries were ent for leagues through the living rock ; rivers were crossed by means of bridges that swung...precipices were scaled by stairways hewn out of the nativo bed; ravines of hideous depth were filled up with solid masonry ; in short, all the difficulties... | |
 | John Francis - 1851 - 642 pagine
...conducted over pathless sierru buried in snow ; galleries were cut for leagues through the living rock ; rivers were crossed by means of bridges that swung...with solid masonry ; in short, all the difficulties that beset a wild and mountainous region, and which might appal the most courageous engineer of modern... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1851 - 782 pagine
...conducted over pathless sierras buried in snow ; galleries were cut for leagues through the living rock ; rivers were crossed by means of bridges that swung...with solid masonry; in short, all the difficulties that beset a wild and mountainous region, and which might appal the most courageous engineer of modern... | |
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It was conducted over pathless sierras buried in snow; galleries were cut for leagues through the living rock; rivers were crossed by means of bridges that swung suspended in the air; precipices were scaled by stairways hewn out of the native bed; ravines... 
