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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... Some of them stood on the brink of a clay precipice , fifty or sixty feet high , surveying the horizon , but without any apparent emotion in view of - our presence , while the farther ones cropped their way 48 THE HEART OF THE CONTINENT .
... Some of them stood on the brink of a clay precipice , fifty or sixty feet high , surveying the horizon , but without any apparent emotion in view of - our presence , while the farther ones cropped their way 48 THE HEART OF THE CONTINENT .
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... precipice of indurated sand , the same arrangement of bushes , the same puddle to which the relieved sentinel came down when we fired our first shots , the same well - worn buffalo - path leading through the draw to the river . I ...
... precipice of indurated sand , the same arrangement of bushes , the same puddle to which the relieved sentinel came down when we fired our first shots , the same well - worn buffalo - path leading through the draw to the river . I ...
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... precipice , by supposing that the bed of the for- mer had fallen within the last two miles sufficiently to bring the first bottom as high above it as the bluff here appeared . Upon this , I reasoned that I must , after all , have struck ...
... precipice , by supposing that the bed of the for- mer had fallen within the last two miles sufficiently to bring the first bottom as high above it as the bluff here appeared . Upon this , I reasoned that I must , after all , have struck ...
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... precipice , but through a chasm . One characteristic of the Rocky Mountains is its system of vast indentations , cutting through from the top to the bottom of the range . Some of these take the form of funnels , others are deep ...
... precipice , but through a chasm . One characteristic of the Rocky Mountains is its system of vast indentations , cutting through from the top to the bottom of the range . Some of these take the form of funnels , others are deep ...
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... the spheres sing . To scientific eyes it was such a wonder as the Niagara precipice might be if a cube of its present mass were cut away from the rest of the world on the American and Canada side and INTO THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS . 203.
... the spheres sing . To scientific eyes it was such a wonder as the Niagara precipice might be if a cube of its present mass were cut away from the rest of the world on the American and Canada side and INTO THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS . 203.
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