The Heart of the Continent: A Record of Travel Across the Plains and in Oregon, with an Examination of the Mormon PrincipleAMS Press, 1971 - 568 Seiten |
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... falling from the height of about twenty thousand feet . But this fall does not make a straight plunge , like Niagara . It descends not over a precipice , but through a chasm . One characteristic of the Rocky Mountains is its system of ...
... falling from the height of about twenty thousand feet . But this fall does not make a straight plunge , like Niagara . It descends not over a precipice , but through a chasm . One characteristic of the Rocky Mountains is its system of ...
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... Fall proper, or, in the Indian, " Cho-looke." By the most recent geological surveys this fall 438 THE HEART OF THE CONTINENT.
... Fall proper, or, in the Indian, " Cho-looke." By the most recent geological surveys this fall 438 THE HEART OF THE CONTINENT.
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... Falls of the Columbia , — but no other cataract known to me on this Continent rivals it for an instant . The great American Falls of Snake are much loftier and more savage than either , but their volume is so much less as to ...
... Falls of the Columbia , — but no other cataract known to me on this Continent rivals it for an instant . The great American Falls of Snake are much loftier and more savage than either , but their volume is so much less as to ...
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