 | Giovanni Battista Belzoni - 1820 - 566 páginas
...planted, round which a rope was twisted, and then fastened to its car, to let it descend gradually. I set a lever at work on each side, and at the same...pulling, others were slackening the ropes, and others shifting the rollers as the colossus advanced. Thus it descended gradually from the main-land to the... | |
 | 1821 - 536 páginas
...planted, round which a rope was twisted, and then fastened to its car, to let it descend gradually. I set a lever at work on each side, and at the same...pulling, others were slackening the ropes, and others shifting the rollers as the colossus advanced. " Thus it descended gradually from the main-land to... | |
 | Giovanni Battista Belzoni, Mrs. Belzoni (Sarah) - 1822 - 486 páginas
...planted, round which a rope was twisted, and then fastened to its car, to let it descend gradually. I set a lever at work on each side, and at the same...pulling, others were slackening the ropes, and others shifting the rollers as the colossus advanced. Thus it descended gradually from the mainland to the... | |
 | Sarah Atkins - 1824 - 256 páginas
...it. MRS. A. — On the opposite side of the boat Belzoni put some mats, well filled with straw. A few Arabs were stationed in it, and some at each side,...— Thus it descended very, very slowly, from the mainland to the causeway, when it sunk a good deal, as the causeway was made of fresh earth. However,... | |
 | Sarah Atkins - 1824 - 280 páginas
...it. MRS. A. — On the opposite side of the boat Belzoni put some mats, well filled with straw. A few Arabs were stationed in it, and some at each side,...— Thus it descended very, very slowly, from the mainland to the causeway, when it sunk a good deal, as the causewaywas made of fresh earth. However,... | |
 | Lucy Sarah Atkins Wilson - 1827 - 284 páginas
...filled with straw. A few Arabs were stationed in it, and some at each side, with a lever of palmwood, as there was nothing else. At the middle of the bridge...advanced. OWEN.— I wish it a prosperous journey 1 How nicely Belzoni managed it. I should like to have seen the men all at their work, each so busy... | |
 | British Museum. Department of Egyptian Antiquities - 1832 - 440 páginas
...planted, round which a rope was twisted, and then fastened to its car, to let it descend gradually. I set a lever at work, on each side, and at the same...pulling, others were slackening the ropes, and others shifting the rollers as the colossus advanced. " Thus it descended gradually from the mainland to the... | |
 | George Long - 1832 - 446 páginas
...planted, round which a rope was twisted, and then fastened to its car, to let it descend gradually. I set a lever at work, on each side, and at the same...pulling, others were slackening the ropes, and others shifting the rollers as the colossus advanced. " Thus it descended gradually from the painland to the... | |
 | George Long - 1832 - 442 páginas
...and then fastened to its car, to let it descend gradually. I set a lever at work, on each side, arid at the same time that the men in the boat were pulling, others were slackening the ropes, and others shifting the rollers as the colossus advanced. " Thus it descended gradually from the mainland to the... | |
 | Mrs. Lucy Sarah Atkins Wilson - 1843 - 266 páginas
...once, it would have ARRIVAL AT ROSETTA. 69 overbalanced the boat, and perhaps drowned the Arabs : so behind the colossus, Belzoni had the trunk of a palm-tree...others moving the rollers as the colossus advanced. Thus it descended very, very slowly, from the mainland to the causeway, when it sunk a good deal, as... | |
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Behind the colossus, Belzoni had the trunk of a palm-tree firmly planted, round which a rope was twisted, and then fastened to the car, so that it might descend gently. He set a lever at work on each side, and at the same time that the men in the boat... 
