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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... sandstone , abounding in iron , and possessing a curious conchoidal cleavage , which , with a little delicacy of manipulation , enabled me to sepa- rate a large piece of it in concentric basins or belts . Its solidification was very ...
... sandstone , abounding in iron , and possessing a curious conchoidal cleavage , which , with a little delicacy of manipulation , enabled me to sepa- rate a large piece of it in concentric basins or belts . Its solidification was very ...
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... sandstone , nearly five hundred feet in circumference and a hundred feet in altitude . Vasquez , a Spanish guide in Pike's Expedition , gave it the name of " Cas- tle Rock , " or rather the no - name , since new settlers are not ...
... sandstone , nearly five hundred feet in circumference and a hundred feet in altitude . Vasquez , a Spanish guide in Pike's Expedition , gave it the name of " Cas- tle Rock , " or rather the no - name , since new settlers are not ...
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... sandstone . Our road ran within half a mile of it , and at that distance little fancy was necessary to discern regular rows of windows , stately door - ways , and all other details requisite for completing the realization . It is very ...
... sandstone . Our road ran within half a mile of it , and at that distance little fancy was necessary to discern regular rows of windows , stately door - ways , and all other details requisite for completing the realization . It is very ...
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... sandstones , gneiss , solitary horn- blende and feldspar , nodular iron - stones , rude agates , and gun - flint ; the whole loosely cemented in a ma- trix composed of clay , lime ( most likely from the decomposition of gypsum ) , and ...
... sandstones , gneiss , solitary horn- blende and feldspar , nodular iron - stones , rude agates , and gun - flint ; the whole loosely cemented in a ma- trix composed of clay , lime ( most likely from the decomposition of gypsum ) , and ...
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... sandstone , which towered , bare as a house - wall , to the height of three or four hundred feet . The effect of the sunlight on these brightly colored precipices was splendid in the ex- treme . They guarded the sides of our narrow ...
... sandstone , which towered , bare as a house - wall , to the height of three or four hundred feet . The effect of the sunlight on these brightly colored precipices was splendid in the ex- treme . They guarded the sides of our narrow ...
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