 | Books - 1709 - 578 pages
...follow exactly the different winding* of the path, as if they had before accurately reconnoitered, and previously settled in their minds, the route they...depends on the experience and address of his beast.'*— ' There ate irideed some places where these declivities are not on the sides of precipices ; but the... | |
 | Enos Bronson - Literature, Modern - 1810 - 456 pages
...safety, amidst so "many irregularities. There would, indeed, otherwise, be no possibility of travelling1 over such places, where the safety of the rider depends on the experience and address of his beast. "There are, indeed, some places where these declivities are not on the sides of precipices; but the... | |
 | Atlases - 1822 - 818 pages
...safety, amidst so many irregularities. There would indeed otherwise be no possibility of traTeffing over such places, where the safety of the rider depends on the experience and address of his beast. The values of the Cordilleras, which are deeper and narrower than those of the Alps and the Pyrenees,... | |
 | Books - 1828 - 548 pages
...a meteor. All the rider has to do is to keep himself fast in the saddle without checking his beast; for the least motion is sufficient to disorder the...dread or horror which appears when they arrive at the top of a steep declivity. For they stop without being checked by the rider; and if he inadvertently... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - Bibliography - 1828 - 550 pages
...follow, and taken every precaution for their safety, amidst so many irregularities. There would indeejl otherwise be no possibility of travelling over such places, where the safety of the rider depends qn.'the experience and ^ad^efjj f>£.ffi|p beast. * " But the longest practice of travelling these... | |
 | James Augustus St. John - Explorers - 1832 - 446 pages
...'•n their minds the route they were to follow, and taken every precaution for their safety among so many irregularities. There would indeed otherwise...experience and address of his beast. But the longest habit of travelling these roads cannot entirely free them from a kind of dread or horror, which appears... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - Geography - 1841 - 1052 pages
...every precaution for their safety. There would otherwise, indeed, he no possibility of travelling over places where the safety of the rider depends on the experience and address of his beast. The valleys of the Cordilleras, which are deeper and narrower than those of the Alps and Pyrenees,... | |
 | Child rearing - 1842 - 352 pages
...settled in their minds the route they were to follow, and taken every precaution for their safety among so many irregularities. There would indeed otherwise...experience and address of his beast. But the longest habit of travelling these roads cannot entirely free them from a kind of dread or horror, which appears... | |
 | James Augustus St. John - Travelers - 1859 - 356 pages
...settled in their minds the route they were to follow, and taken every precaution for their safety among so many irregularities. There would indeed otherwise...experience and address of his beast. But the longest habit of travelling these roads cannot entirely free them from a kind of dread or horror, which appears... | |
 | John Tillotson - America - 1869 - 442 pages
...every precaution for their safety. There would otherwise, indeed, be no possibility of travelling over places where the safety of the rider depends on the experience and address of his beast. The valleys of the Cordilleras, which are deeper and narrower than those of the Alps and Pyrenees,... | |
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The address of these creatures is here truly wonderful ; for in this rapid motion, when they seem to have lost all government of themselves, they follow exactly the different windings of the road, as if they had before accurately reconnoitred, and previously... 
