 | REV. CHARLES BULLOCK - 1865 - 700 páginas
...a prodigious height, with great table-shaped slabs standing out from the face of the cliff, for ail the world like the sounding-boards of pulpits, hanging...diminutive bushes, whose roots droop in festoons from (heir edges. This is not a long gorge, but it is much more imposing than the first one, and it should... | |
 | Robert John Davidson, Isaac Mason - 1905 - 276 páginas
...sounding boards of pulpits, hanging from which are long stalactites ; and on the upper surface are some trees looking like diminutive bushes, whose roots...from their edges. This is not a long gorge, but it is more impressive than the first one ! At the mouth of the Niu Kan gorge is the fatal rock on which the... | |
 | Irene Eber - 1999 - 332 páginas
...hand tC a prodigious height, with great table-shaped slabs standing out from the face of the cliff... hanging from which are long pointed stalactites; and...some are trees, looking like diminutive bushes.... 5i Halfway up this long gorge is the boundary between Hubei and Sichuan. The Jiangsi men on board,... | |
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... funnel. As we entered, the gloom was very impressive ; huge walls of rock rise vertically on either hand to a prodigious height, with great table-shaped slabs standing out from the face of the cliff, for all the world like the... 