 | Edward Archer - Bengal (India) - 1833 - 414 pages
...difficulty that a camel can walk up a plane of twenty degrees without a load ; but with any weight at all We had much to do while here. All the camp equipage...this should only come once in a man's life. April 6.—Marched to Subathoo, (thirteen miles.) The first part is steep ascent, the road being cut in traverses... | |
 | Thomas Hopkins - Atmospheric circulation - 1844 - 126 pages
...mountains, but it must be great. Major ARCHER says — " Ban- is sufficiently elevated to see over the ouier ridge into the plains. In the rains neither man nor...obliged to be changed often, owing to attacks of fever." — P. 207. These rains are not confined to the plains, or the low hills just above them, but fall... | |
 | Thomas Hopkins - Meteorology - 1854 - 440 pages
...against these mountains, but it must be great. Major Archer says — "Barr is sufficiently elevated to see over the outer ridge into the plains. In the...to be changed often, owing to attacks of fever."* These rains are not confined to the plains, or the low hills just above them, but fall freely among... | |
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... fifty feet wide, during their whole lives. Those who trusted to the ready recommendation, had the felicity of experiencing the fallacy of the assertions and of their own hopes..* * It is with difficulty that a camel can walk up a plane of twenty degrees... 