Excerptback into the valley, they would still be there. There are none upon the ground.But these conjectures do not require to be continued. A short examination of the cliff suffices to convince you that the design of scaling it by ladders could not have succeeded. The ledge against which rests the top of the highest must have been found too narrow to support another; or rather, the rocks above and projecting over would render it impossible to place a ladder upon this ledge. It is evident that the scheme had been tried and ...
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Excerptback into the valley, they would still be there. There are none upon the ground.But these conjectures do not require to be continued. A short examination of the cliff suffices to convince you that the design of scaling it by ladders could not have succeeded. The ledge against which rests the top of the highest must have been found too narrow to support another; or rather, the rocks above and projecting over would render it impossible to place a ladder upon this ledge. It is evident that the scheme had been tried and abandoned.The very character of the attempt proves that they who had made it must have been placed in a desperate situation--imprisoned within that cliff-girt valley, with no means of escaping from it, except such as they themselves might devise.Moreover, after a complete exploration of the place, you can find no evidence that they ever did escape from their strange prison; and your thoughts can only shape themselves into conjectures, as to who they were that had wandered
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Add this copy of The Cliff-Climbers; (Or) the Lone Home in the Himalayas to cart. $33.00, good condition, Sold by Ken's Book Haven rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Coopersburg, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1882 by James Miller.
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Good. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Book Condition: Good/Very good. Inside pages clean. Tight binding. Sharp corners. Light chipping to spine ends and corners.
Add this copy of The Cliff-Climbers to cart. $32.00, fair condition, Sold by Princeton Antiques Bookservice rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Atlantic City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1864 by TICKNOR AND FIELDS.
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FAIR. 4X7. Wear to cover and spine. major discoloring to spine. imbedded illustrations to both sides of cover. gold gilt lettering, liining and illustrations to spine. wear to endpapers. pencil writing to front endpapers which states "Bought at Leary's 1919 R. R. Lovett" and "B. Summers. major foxing too title page, illustration before title page and to mylar covering between those two pages. wear to some pages. black illustrations throughout. _PAB_
