 | Sarah Hutchins Killikelly - 1886 - 420 דפים
...that no accident befell these madcaps in a situation so elevated that it would have turned a landsman giddy in his sober senses. The only detriment which the pillar received was the loss of the volute, before mentioned, which came down with a thundering sound, and was carried to England by one of the... | |
 | Anne M. Prescott - 1893 - 264 דפים
...conveniently. "It is astonishing that no accident befell these madcaps, in a situation so elevated, that it would have turned a landman giddy in his sober senses....which the pillar received, was the loss of the volute before mentioned, which came down with a thundering sound, and was carried to England by one of the... | |
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... astonished multitude. To the eye below, the capital of the pillar does not appear capable of holding more than one man upon it ; but our seamen found it could contain no less than eight persons very conveniently. It is astonishing that no accident... 
