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... Gradgrind measurements of space. “If this were a delusion, let us dream on 1'' I
must confess that this region of mirage is almost the only place, till one reaches
the Platte's ice-cold cañon, in the mountains of Colorado, where the river exerts ...
... Gradgrind measurements of space. “If this were a delusion, let us dream on 1'' I
must confess that this region of mirage is almost the only place, till one reaches
the Platte's ice-cold cañon, in the mountains of Colorado, where the river exerts ...
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Beyond Spring Hill, the South Platte makes the nearest approach to beauty which
you find in it till you see it issuing from its lofty cañon back of Denver. All the way
that we skirted it during the remainder of the afternoon, it was studded with ...
Beyond Spring Hill, the South Platte makes the nearest approach to beauty which
you find in it till you see it issuing from its lofty cañon back of Denver. All the way
that we skirted it during the remainder of the afternoon, it was studded with ...
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The Fontaine qui Bouille (here pronounced “Fonten kee Boo'yeh") is a clear and
rapid stream, about ten yards wide, and two feet deep, issuing from a cañon near
the true base of Pike's Peak, and skirting the edge of the Colorado City ...
The Fontaine qui Bouille (here pronounced “Fonten kee Boo'yeh") is a clear and
rapid stream, about ten yards wide, and two feet deep, issuing from a cañon near
the true base of Pike's Peak, and skirting the edge of the Colorado City ...
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Through the low bottom immediately east of the Gods' Garden, I found a number
of “sequis,” or distributing ditches, already run, connecting with a small rivulet
which came from Camp Creek Cañon, and fell lower down into the Fontaine qui ...
Through the low bottom immediately east of the Gods' Garden, I found a number
of “sequis,” or distributing ditches, already run, connecting with a small rivulet
which came from Camp Creek Cañon, and fell lower down into the Fontaine qui ...
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On the whiffletree having been adjusted, we resumed our line of march, turning,
in about five miles from Colorado City, between shaggy precipices and thickets of
low evergreen, to the cañon of Camp Creek. The character of the uplifts in the ...
On the whiffletree having been adjusted, we resumed our line of march, turning,
in about five miles from Colorado City, between shaggy precipices and thickets of
low evergreen, to the cañon of Camp Creek. The character of the uplifts in the ...
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| Titel | The Heart of the Continent: A Record of Travel Across the Plains and in Oregon, with an Examination of the Mormon Principle |
| Autor/in | Fitz Hugh Ludlow |
| Verlag | Hurd and Houghton, 1871 |
| Original von | Princeton University |
| Digitalisiert | 23. Jan. 2009 |
| Länge | 568 Seiten |
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