rope-way

Updated: May 6, 2025

Hence the eye ranged over the northern ocean, while to the eastward appeared the isle of Noss, with the rocky Holm of Noss beyond, the abode of numberless sea-fowl, and to be reached by a rope-way cradle over a broad chasm of fearful depth.

William Henry Giles Kingston - Archibald Hughson: An Arctic Story