The Heart of the Continent: A Record of Travel Across the Plains and in Oregon, with an Examination of the Mormon PrincipleHurd and Houghton, 1871 - 568 Seiten |
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... distances graded with such delicacy . One could almost measure them by miles from the inky surface , hang- ing with torn fringes of leaden vapor just above our head , up through the tremendous chasms flecked along their wall , with ...
... distances graded with such delicacy . One could almost measure them by miles from the inky surface , hang- ing with torn fringes of leaden vapor just above our head , up through the tremendous chasms flecked along their wall , with ...
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... distance they appear like horns . The horns them- selves grow so immediately over the supra - orbital pro- jection as to seem coming out of the animal's eyes ; they are long , slender , have a comparatively slight retro - curve , and ...
... distance they appear like horns . The horns them- selves grow so immediately over the supra - orbital pro- jection as to seem coming out of the animal's eyes ; they are long , slender , have a comparatively slight retro - curve , and ...
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... distance seemed partially annihilated . The White Rock Buttes , which we knew to be many miles away to the southward , came out clear and strong , so that we could see the undulations of their surface almost as plainly as if they were ...
... distance seemed partially annihilated . The White Rock Buttes , which we knew to be many miles away to the southward , came out clear and strong , so that we could see the undulations of their surface almost as plainly as if they were ...
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... distance from the ground ; and in the second , when one's shots did not go over or fall short , there was always enough life left in the little animal to tumble him down his hole beyond the risk of capture . So we soon abandoned the job ...
... distance from the ground ; and in the second , when one's shots did not go over or fall short , there was always enough life left in the little animal to tumble him down his hole beyond the risk of capture . So we soon abandoned the job ...
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... distance of three miles from our camp , and halted at its mouth to consider our course . all the commanding prominences of the divide was stationed a giant bull , motionless , as if carven in bronze , noting our every gesture with red ...
... distance of three miles from our camp , and halted at its mouth to consider our course . all the commanding prominences of the divide was stationed a giant bull , motionless , as if carven in bronze , noting our every gesture with red ...
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