 | 1843 - Liczba stron: 628
...had to bore into one of the inferior strata, and employ gunpowder. The process was new to me, and I deemed it a highly amusing one ; it had the merit,...direction, and an immense mass of the diluvium came topping down, bearing with it two dead birds that, in a recent storm, had crept into one of the deeper... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - Liczba stron: 676
...had to bore into one of the inferior strata, and employ gunpowder. The process was new to me, and I deemed it a highly amusing one : it had the merit,...flew in every direction ; and an immense mass of the diluvinm came toppling down, bearing with it two dead birds, that in a recent storm had crept into... | |
 | Graduated series - 1859 - Liczba stron: 462
...had to bore into one of the inferior strata, and t-mploy gunpowder. The process was new to me, and I deemed it a highly amusing one ; it had the merit, too, of being attended with some degree of danger, as a boating or rock excursion, and ':;"! thus an interest independent of its novelty.... | |
 | Fifty celebrated men - 1862 - Liczba stron: 354
...had to bore into one of the inferior strata, and employ gunpowder. The process was new to me ; and I deemed it a highly amusing one. It had the merit, too, of being attended with danger, and had thus an interest independent of its novelty. We had a few capital shots. The fragments... | |
 | School board readers - 1872 - Liczba stron: 328
...had to bore into one of the inferior strata, and employ gunpowder. The process was new to me, and I deemed it a highly amusing one; it had the merit,...with some such degree of danger as a boating or rock excuision, and had thus' an interest independent of its novelty. We had a few capital shots; the fragments... | |
 | Philip George and son, ltd - 1872 - Liczba stron: 262
...me, and I thought it a highly amusing one ; and its very danger added to my interest and excitement. We had a few capital shots ; the fragments flew in every direction, and an immense mass pame toppling down. The earth, in its fall, brought with it the bodies of two little birds, which had... | |
 | 1872 - Liczba stron: 264
...had to bore into one of the inferior strata, and employ gunpowder. The process was new to me, and I deemed it a highly amusing one ; it had the merit, too, of being attended with some degree of danger, as a boating or rock excursion, and had thus an interest independent of its novelty.... | |
 | Philip George and son, ltd - 1875 - Liczba stron: 362
...had to bore into one of the inferior strata, and employ gunpowder. The process was new Jo me, and I deemed it a highly amusing one : it had the merit,...and had thus an interest independent of its novelty. The fragments flew in every direction ; and an immense mass of the diluvium came toppling down, bearing... | |
 | John C. Salmon - 1877 - Liczba stron: 294
...had to bore into one of the inferior strata, and employ gunpowder. The process was new to me, and I deemed it a highly amusing one ; it had the merit,...flew in every direction, and an immense mass of the diluvinm came toppling down, bearing with it two dead birds, that in a recent storm had crept into... | |
 | New reader - 1879 - Liczba stron: 392
...inferior strata,4 and employ gunpowder. The process was new to me, and I deemed it a highly-amusing one ; it had the merit, too, of being attended with...flew in every direction ; and an immense mass of the diluvium11 came toppling down, hearing with it two dead '-'irds, that in a recent storm had crept into... | |
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... and simple and rude as I had been accustomed to regard these implements, I found I had much to learn in the way of using them. They all proved inefficient, however, and the workmen had to bore into one of the inferior strata, and employ gunpowder.... 
