 | Science - 1820 - 494 pages
...ropes are suspended, forming a loop, in which passengers seat themselves, clasping its upper parts with their hands to keep themselves steady ; a line...it from one side of the river to the other. " The J-lioola at Rampore was somewhat formidable, for the river tumbles beneath in a very awful way, and... | |
 | Science - 1820 - 476 pages
...passengers seat themselves, clasping its upper parts with their hands to keep themselves steady ; a Hue fixed to the wooden block at each end, extending to...to the other. " The J-hoola at Rampore was somewhat formidable, for the river tumbles beneath in a very awful way, and the ropes, though they decline in... | |
 | 1820 - 870 pages
...parts with their hands to keep themselves steady ; a line fixed to the wooden block at each end, and extending to each bank, serves to haul it, and the...passenger attached to it, from one side of the river to the other." P. 260. Our author does not excel at description ; and notwithstanding the circumstantial... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1821 - 602 pages
...parts with their hands to keep themselves steady ; a line fixed to the wooden block at each end, and extending to each bank, serves to haul it, and the...to the other. 'The j,hoola at Rampore was somewhat formidable, for the river tumbles beneath in a very awful way ; and the ropes, though they decline... | |
 | English literature - 1821 - 602 pages
...parts wjth their hands to keep themselves steady; a line fixed to the wooden block at each end, and extending to each bank, serves to haul it, and the...to the other. ' The j,hoola at Rampore was somewhat formidable, for the river tumbles beneath in a very awful way ; and the ropes, though they decline... | |
 | 1821 - 598 pages
...parts with their hands to keep themselves steady; a line fixed to the wooden block at each end, and extending to each bank, serves to haul it, and the...passenger attached to it, from one side of the river to the other. ii 3 ' The j,hoola at Rampore was somewhat formidable, for the river tumbles beneath in... | |
 | British literature - 1834 - 532 pages
...parts with their hands to keep themselves steady ; a line fixed to the wooden block at each end, and extending to each bank, serves to haul it and the passenger attached to it from one side of tire river to the other. "The j'hoola (as the bridtie is called) at Khampore was somewhat formidable,... | |
 | Children's periodicals - 1843 - 402 pages
...part with their hands to keep themselves steady ; a line fixed to the wooden block at each end, and extending to each bank, serves to haul it and the...from one side of the river to the other. The j'hoola (as the bridge is called ) at Rhampore was somewhat formidable, for the river tumbles beneath in a... | |
 | Two creations - 1849 - 138 pages
...parts with their hands, to keep themselves steady ; a line fixed to the wooden block at each end, and extending to each bank, serves to haul it and the...from one side of the river to the other. The j'hoola (as the bridge is called) at Rhampore was somewhat formidable, for the river tumbles beneath in a very... | |
 | Historical geography - 1853 - 168 pages
...parts with their hands, to keep themselves steady ; a line fixed to the wooden block at each end, and extending to each bank, serves to haul it and the...to it from one side of the river to the other. The j'lioola (as the bridge is called) at Rhampove was somewhat formidable, for the river tumbles beneath... | |
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... of wood hollowed into a semicircular groove large enough to slide easily along it, and around this block ropes are suspended, forming a loop, in which passengers seat themselves, clasping its upper parts with their hands to keep themselves steady;... 
