 | Luís de Camões - Epic poetry - 1826 - 622 pages
...head. Marco Polo says (book iii. ch. xxiii.), in his description of the island of Ceylon (Zeilan) : " In this island there is a very high mountain, so rocky...precipitous, that the ascent to the top is impracticable, as it is said, excepting by the assistance of iron chains employed for that purpose. By means of these... | |
 | Luís de Camões - Epic poetry - 1826 - 628 pages
...head. Marco Polo says (book iii. ch. xxiii.), in his description of the island of Ceylon (Zeilan) : " In this island there is a very high mountain, so rocky and precipitous, that tin ascent to the top is impracticable, as it is said, excepting by the assistance of iron chains employed... | |
 | Luís de Camões - Epic poetry - 1826 - 620 pages
...PAGE 408. Now Ceylon contemplate, where in the skies A soaring mountain shrouds his tow'ring head. high mountain, so rocky and precipitous, that the ascent to the top is impracticable, as it is said, excepting by the assistance of iron chains employed for that purpose. By means of these... | |
 | University magazine - 1848 - 792 pages
...world ; and likewise sapphires, topazes, amethysts, garnets, and many other precious and costly stones. In this island there is a very high mountain, so rocky...precipitous, that the ascent to the top is impracticable, as it is said, excepting by the assistance of iron chains employed for that purpose ; by means of these... | |
 | William Knighton - Sri Lanka - 1845 - 424 pages
...and likewise sapphires, topazes, amethysts, garnets, and many other precious and costly stones." " In this island there is a very high mountain, so rocky...precipitous, that the ascent to the top is impracticable, as it is said, excepting by the assistance of iron chains employed for that purpose. By means of these,... | |
 | 1848 - 822 pages
...world ; and likewise sapphires, topazes, amethysts, garnets, and many other precious and costly stones. In this island there is a very high mountain, so rocky...precipitous, that the ascent to the top is impracticable, as it is said, excepting by the assistance of iron chains employed for that purpose; by means of these... | |
 | Charles Pridham - Sri Lanka - 1849 - 512 pages
...would not exchange it for the treasure of the world, as it had descended to him from his ancestors. In this island there is a very high mountain, so rocky...ascent to the top is impracticable, except by the help of iron chains, by means of which some persons have attained the summit, where the tomb of Adam,... | |
 | Henry Charles Sirr - Sri Lanka - 1850 - 434 pages
...; and likewise sapphires, topazes, amethysts, garnets, and many other precious and costly stones. * In this island there is a very high mountain, so rocky...precipitous, that the ascent to the top is impracticable, as it is said, excepting by the assistance of iron chains employed for that purpose ; by means of these... | |
 | WILLIAM BLACKWOOD & SONS, EDINBURGH - 1851 - 716 pages
...arm, without spot, shining like a fire, and not to be bought for money !" In another part he says—" In this island there is a very high mountain, so rocky...precipitous that the ascent to the top is impracticable, as it is said, excepting by the assistance of iron chains employed for that purpose. liy means of these,... | |
 | Marco Polo - Asia - 1854 - 548 pages
...speaking of the island of Zeilan, and which I learned when I visited that country in my homeward -voyage. In this island there is a very high mountain, so rocky...precipitous that the ascent to the top is impracticable, as it is said, excepting by the assistance of iron chains employed for that purpose. By means of these... | |
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In this island there is a very high mountain, so rocky and precipitous that the ascent to the top is impracticable, as it is said, excepting by the assistance of iron chains employed for that purpose. By means of these -some persons attain the summit,... 
