 | 1857 - 602 דפים
...of the wood that grows about ; and others haul it up with blocks and pulleys. The diggers generally ascend and descend by a rope fastened to a post above,...feet in the side of the pit. " Many of these holes arc filled, or nearly so, with water filtering from the creek. It is black as ink, and has a stench... | |
 | 1855 - 594 דפים
...pulleys ; others, and the greater number, merely with their hands. The diggers themselves generally ascend and descend by a rope fastened to a post above, and by hules for their feet in the side of the pit. " Many of these holes are filled, or nearly so, with water,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1857 - 624 דפים
...of the wood that grows about ; aud others haul it up with blocks and pulleys. The diggers generally ascend and descend by a rope fastened to a post above,...is black as ink, and has a stench as of a tan-yard, partlv from the bark with which they line the sides of their holes. In the midst of all these hole«,... | |
 | 1858 - 1062 דפים
...greater number — merely with their hands. The diggers themselve* generally ascended and descended hy a rope fastened to a post above and by holes for their feet in the sides of the pit. Many of these holes were filled or nearly so with water filtering from the creek.... | |
 | William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1857 - 590 דפים
...of the wood that grows about ; and others haul it up with blocks and pulleys. The diggers generally ascend and descend by a rope fastened to a post above,...as of a tan-yard, partly from the bark with which the} line the sides of their holes. In the midst of all these holes, these heaps of clay and gravel,... | |
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... thirty feet deep. Out of these the earth has to be drawn up in buckets, and some wind them up with windlasses rudely constructed out of the wood that grows about ; and others haul it up with blocks and pulleys. The diggers generally ascend and descend... 