 I descended), partly natural and partly made by the owner of the land, they cannot escape; for this valley is in every other part surrounded by perpendicular cliffs, and eight miles lower down, it contracts from an average width of half a mile, to a mere...  Australia and Its Settlements - Page 45de Thomas Osmond Summers - 1899 - 192 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Charles Darwin - 1846 - 716 pages
...this valley is in every other part surrounded by perpendicular clifls, and eight miles lower down it contracts from an average width of half a mile to a mere chasm, impassable to man or beast. Sir T. Mitchell states that the great valley of the Cox river, with... | |
 | 1869 - 606 pages
...this valley is in every other part surrounded by perpendicular cliffs, and, eight miles lower down, it contracts from an average width of half a mile to a mere chasm, impassable to man or beast. The valley of Cox River is similar, and other cases might be added.... | |
 | Linnean Society of New South Wales - 1883 - 752 pages
...this valley is in every other part surrounded by perpendicular cliffs, and eight miles lower down, it contracts, from an average width of half a mile, to a mere chasm impassable to man or beast."* Through a similar chasm, 20 miles further down, the Wolgan joins... | |
 | Linnean Society of New South Wales - 1883 - 762 pages
...this valley is in every other part surrounded by perpendicular cliffs, and eight miles lower down, it contracts, from an average width of half a mile, to a mere chasm impassable to man or beast."* Through a similar chasm, 20 miles further down, the "Wolgau joins... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1889 - 628 pages
...this valley is in every other part surrounded by perpendicular cliffs, and eight miles lower down it contracts from an average width of half a mile to a mere chasm, impassable to man or beast. Sir T. Mitchell states that the great valley of the Cox river with... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1890 - 602 pages
...this valley is in every other part surrounded by perpendicular cliffs, and eight miles lower down, it contracts, from an average width of half a mile, to a mere chasm impassable to man or beast. Sir T. Mitchell * states, that the great valley of the Cox river... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1893 - 566 pages
...for the valley is in every other part surrounded by perpendicular cliffs, and 8 miles lower down it contracts from an average width of half a mile to a mere chasm impassable to man or beast. Sir T. Mitchell states that the great valley of the Cox River, with... | |
 | 1893 - 852 pages
...this valley is in every other part surrounded by perpendicular cliffs, and eight miles lower down it contracts from an average width of half a mile to a mere chasm, impassable to man or beast. The origin of these valleys appears to have been as great a puzzle... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1896 - 688 pages
...this valley is in every other part surrounded by perpendicular cliffs, and eight miles lower down, it contracts, from an average width of half a mile, to a mere chasm impassable to man or beast. Sir T. Mitchell * states, that the great valley of the Cox river... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1896 - 690 pages
...this valley is in every other part surrounded by perpendicular cliffs, and eight miles lower down, it contracts, from an average width of half a mile, to a mere chasm impassable to man or beast. Sir T. Mitchell 2 states, that the great valley of the Cox river... | |
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