The Heart of the Continent: A Record of Travel Across the Plains and in Oregon, with an Examination of the Mormon PrincipleHurd and Houghton, 1870 - 568 Seiten |
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... masses had their duels to themselves , - battery fighting battery , pair and pair . Half an hour more , and the forces ... mass of yellow flame at once , and the reports were each one instantaneous shock , which burst the air like the ...
... masses had their duels to themselves , - battery fighting battery , pair and pair . Half an hour more , and the forces ... mass of yellow flame at once , and the reports were each one instantaneous shock , which burst the air like the ...
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... mass of coherent water falling down bodily . Five minutes from the time it began to wet us , the horses were run- ning fetlock - deep , with the road still hard under their hoofs , for the soil had not yet had time to dissolve into mud ...
... mass of coherent water falling down bodily . Five minutes from the time it began to wet us , the horses were run- ning fetlock - deep , with the road still hard under their hoofs , for the soil had not yet had time to dissolve into mud ...
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... mass of vapor . Then , with the most tremendous flash and peal of the whole storm , its blazing capital broke into splinters , and went shivering across the area , right over our heads . If it were only possible to paint such things ...
... mass of vapor . Then , with the most tremendous flash and peal of the whole storm , its blazing capital broke into splinters , and went shivering across the area , right over our heads . If it were only possible to paint such things ...
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... mass of magenta fire . It is the glory of the fertile plains in May and early June , and we afterward found it extending for miles among the barren sand- dunes beyond Fort Kearney , encroaching upon the ter- ritory 36 THE HEART OF THE ...
... mass of magenta fire . It is the glory of the fertile plains in May and early June , and we afterward found it extending for miles among the barren sand- dunes beyond Fort Kearney , encroaching upon the ter- ritory 36 THE HEART OF THE ...
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... mass with clay ; but we found some specimens of black - scale that were almost virgin - pure , certainly , I should say , reaching ninety per cent . of metal . It - appeared in large enough quantities to make its work- ing COMSTOCK'S ...
... mass with clay ; but we found some specimens of black - scale that were almost virgin - pure , certainly , I should say , reaching ninety per cent . of metal . It - appeared in large enough quantities to make its work- ing COMSTOCK'S ...
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