 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1827 - 588 pàgines
...been. " It is said (for a wager) that Lord Napier gave proof of the a'bovew mentioned instrument upon a large plain in Scotland, to the destruction of a great many head of cattle and flocks of sheep, whereof some were distant from others half, a mile." I remain,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1831 - 438 pàgines
...Turks, without the hazard of one Christian. Of this it is said that (upon a wager) he gave proof upon a large plain in Scotland, to the destruction of a great many heads of cattle and flocks of sheep, whereof some were distant from other half a mile on all sides,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1831 - 424 pàgines
...Turks, without the hazard of one Christian. Of this it is said that (upon a wager) he gave proof upon a large plain in Scotland, to the destruction of a great many heads of cattle and flocks of sheep, whereof some were distant from other half a mile on all sides,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1831 - 432 pàgines
...Turks, without the hazard of one Christian. Of this it is said that (upon a wager) he gave proof upon a large plain in Scotland, to the destruction of a great many heads of cattle and flocks of sheep, whereof some were distant from other half a mile on all sides,... | |
 | 1831 - 444 pàgines
...Turks, without the hazard of one Christian. Of this it is said that (upon a wager) he gave proof upon a large plain in Scotland, to the destruction of a great many heads of cattle and flocks of sheep, whereof some were distant from other half a mile on all sides,... | |
 | 1834 - 602 pàgines
...Turks, without the hazard of one Christian. Of this it is said, that (upon a wager) he gave proof upon a large plain in Scotland, to the destruction of a, great many herds of cattel, and flocks of sheep, whereof some were distant from other a whole mile. To continue... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1847 - 448 pàgines
...Turks, without the hazard of one Christian. Of this, it is said that (upon a wager) he gave proof, upon a large plain in Scotland, to the destruction of a great many heads of cattle and flocks of sheep, whereof some were distant from other half a mile on all sides,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1858 - 568 pàgines
...the date noted in the margin. Sir Thomas Urquhart describes the third of the devices as calculated to clear a field of four miles' circumference of all...Scotland, to the destruction of a great many cattle and sheep — a particular that may be doubted. ' When he was desired by a friend in his last illness to... | |
 | John Timbs - 1860 - 478 pàgines
...30,000 Turks without the hazard of one Christian. Of this, it is said, upon a wager, he gave proof upon a large plain in Scotland, to the destruction of a great many heads of cattle and flocks of sheep, whereof some were distant from others half a mile on all sides,... | |
 | James Mason - 1875 - 674 pàgines
...Turks, without the hazard of one Christian. Of this it is said that (on a wager) he gave proof upon a large plain in Scotland, to the destruction of a great many head of cattle and flocks of sheep, whereof some were distant from others half a mile. To continue... | |
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... height that should be found thereon, how near soever they might be to one another ; by which means he made it appear that he was able, with the help of this machine alone, to kill 30,000 Turks, without the hazard of one Christian. 
