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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... valley between perpendicular uplifts of red and white argillaceous 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 ...
... valley between perpendicular uplifts of red and white argillaceous 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 ...
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... valleys , and strips of positive green along its course . Coming out of a quarry whose boundaries comprised a circuit of twenty miles , and whose blocks were hewn large enough to make a cathedral out of each cube , we breathed freer ...
... valleys , and strips of positive green along its course . Coming out of a quarry whose boundaries comprised a circuit of twenty miles , and whose blocks were hewn large enough to make a cathedral out of each cube , we breathed freer ...
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... valley level , we reached Vir- ginia Dale about noon . We had grown so fascinated with the scenery since daybreak that we resolved to leave the stage , and stop over till the next day . I do not know whether I have heretofore more than ...
... valley level , we reached Vir- ginia Dale about noon . We had grown so fascinated with the scenery since daybreak that we resolved to leave the stage , and stop over till the next day . I do not know whether I have heretofore more than ...
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... valley again , made unavailing search along the brook for a wonderful " fish with hands , " which the stable - boys had seen there , and which , from their poetical description , we hoped might be a new species of siren , or some other ...
... valley again , made unavailing search along the brook for a wonderful " fish with hands , " which the stable - boys had seen there , and which , from their poetical description , we hoped might be a new species of siren , or some other ...
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... valleys , which radiate towards one common cen- tre in the Plains of the Pass , these rivers facilitate communication between the Mississippi and the Great Salt Lake basins , offering a series of nearly connected galleries cr grades ...
... valleys , which radiate towards one common cen- tre in the Plains of the Pass , these rivers facilitate communication between the Mississippi and the Great Salt Lake basins , offering a series of nearly connected galleries cr grades ...
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