 | Giovanni Battista Belzoni, Mrs. Belzoni (Sarah) - 1820 - Страниц: 566
...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 - Страниц: 536
...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 - Страниц: 486
...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 - Страниц: 280
...push, and it had gone at once, it would have overbalanced the boat, and perhaps drowned the Arabs. MRS. A. — Behind the colossus, Belzoni had the trunk...— 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,... | |
 | Sarah Atkins - 1824 - Страниц: 256
...push, and it had gone at once, it would have overbalanced the boat, and perhaps drowned the Arabs. MRS. A. — Behind the colossus, Belzoni had the trunk...— 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,... | |
 | Lucy Sarah Atkins Wilson - 1827 - Страниц: 284
...push, and it had gone at once, it would have overbalanced the boat, and perhaps drowned the Arabs. MRS. A. — Behind the colossus, Belzoni had the trunk...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... | |
 | George Long - 1832 - Страниц: 446
...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... | |
 | British Museum. Department of Egyptian Antiquities - 1832 - Страниц: 440
...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 - Страниц: 442
...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... | |
 | George Long - 1846 - Страниц: 450
...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... | |
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I put a sack filled with sand, that, if the colossus should run too fast into the boat, it might be stopped. In the ground behind the colossus I had a piece of a palm-tree firmly planted, round which a rope was twisted, and then fastened to its car, to... 
