 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1847 - 546 頁
...galleries were cut for leagues through the living rock ; rivers were crossed by means of bridges that swung suspended in the air ; precipices were scaled by stairways...successfully overcome. The length of the road, of which scattered fragments only remain, is variously estimated, from fifteen hundred to two thousand... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1847 - 550 頁
...galleries were cut for leagues through the living rock ; rivers were crossed by means of bridges that swung suspended in the air ; precipices were scaled by stairways...successfully overcome. The length of the road, of which scattered fragments only remain, is variously estimated, from fifteen hundred to two thousand... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - 1847 - 350 頁
...galleries were cut for leagues through the living rock; rivers were crossed by means of bridges that swung suspended in the air; precipices were scaled by stairways...beset a wild and mountainous region, and which might appal the most courageous engineer of modern limes, were encountered and successfully overcome. The... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - 1847 - 714 頁
...masonry : in short, all the difficulties that beset a wild and mountainous region, and which might appal the most courageous engineer of modern times, were...successfully overcome. The length of the road, of which scattered fragments only remain, is variously estimated from fifteen hundred to two thousand... | |
 | 1847 - 640 頁
...living rock ; rivers were crossed by means of bridges that swung suspended in the air ; preci. pices were scaled by stairways hewn out of the native bed ; ravines of hideous depth were filled up with eolid masonry ; in short, all the difficulties that beset a wild and mountainous region, and which... | |
 | 1848 - 350 頁
...galleries were cut for leagues through the living rock; rivers were crossed by means of bridges that swung suspended in the air; precipices were scaled by stairways...beset a wild and mountainous region, and which might appal the most courageous engineer of modern times, were encountered and successfully overcome. The... | |
 | 1849 - 106 頁
...Galleries were cut for leagues through the living rock; rivers were crossed by means of bridges that swung suspended in the air ; precipices were scaled by stair-ways...difficulties that beset a wild and mountainous region were encountered and successfully overcome by these industrious people." " Was there a King of Peru,... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1871 - 440 頁
...with snow; galleries were cut for leagues through living rock; rivers were crossed by means of bridges suspended in the air ; precipices were scaled by stairways hewn out of the natural bed ; and ravines of hideous depth were filled up with solid masonry." However much we may... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1850 - 604 頁
...galleries were cut for leagues through the rock ; rivers were crossed by means of bridges that swung suspended in the air; precipices were scaled by stairways...beset a wild and mountainous region, and which might appal the most courageous engineer of modern times, were successfully encountered and overcome." The... | |
 | 1850 - 682 頁
...galleries were ent for leagues through the living rock ; rivers were crossed by means of bridges that swung suspended in the air ; precipices were scaled by stairways hewn out of the nativo bed; ravines of hideous depth were filled up with solid masonry ; in short, all the difficulties... | |
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It was conducted over pathless sierras buried in snow; galleries were cut for leagues through the living rock ; rivers were crossed by means of bridges that swung suspended in the air ; precipices were scaled by stairways hewn out of the native bed ;... 
