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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... valleys that lead out of sight into mountain recesses , these are sugges- tions of a gentler world - time , which came after the struggle . They are the kisses of the Water Nymph , and the dalliance of bland but treacherous Oxygen . The ...
... valleys that lead out of sight into mountain recesses , these are sugges- tions of a gentler world - time , which came after the struggle . They are the kisses of the Water Nymph , and the dalliance of bland but treacherous Oxygen . The ...
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... valley of the divide , about twenty miles from Denver , in which , for the first time on our journey , we encountered those sculpturesque freaks of geology which form so large a field of interesting study throughout the Rocky Mountains ...
... valley of the divide , about twenty miles from Denver , in which , for the first time on our journey , we encountered those sculpturesque freaks of geology which form so large a field of interesting study throughout the Rocky Mountains ...
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... , determined to wring out of nature the justice he could not get from man . The divide in whose valley he lies , is the natural * • thoroughfare of all travel from Denver to the Arkan- PIKE'S PEAK AND THE GARDEN OF THE GODS . 149.
... , determined to wring out of nature the justice he could not get from man . The divide in whose valley he lies , is the natural * • thoroughfare of all travel from Denver to the Arkan- PIKE'S PEAK AND THE GARDEN OF THE GODS . 149.
Seite 156
... valley through which it flowed was as green as a June meadow in the East ; and the sweet , pure air was of itself enough to tell us that we had risen far above the level of Denver . We left Sprague's early in the morning , well satis ...
... valley through which it flowed was as green as a June meadow in the East ; and the sweet , pure air was of itself enough to tell us that we had risen far above the level of Denver . We left Sprague's early in the morning , well satis ...
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... contemporary geology to a force scarcely noticed in its dynamics . About four o'clock in the afternoon we came into a narrow valley between perpendicular uplifts of red and white argillaceous PIKE'S PEAK AND THE GARDEN OF THE GODS . 171.
... contemporary geology to a force scarcely noticed in its dynamics . About four o'clock in the afternoon we came into a narrow valley between perpendicular uplifts of red and white argillaceous PIKE'S PEAK AND THE GARDEN OF THE GODS . 171.
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