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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... beauty to the Plains about the Little Blue , and which here fought for a bare existence with the thickening myriads of cacti , bursting up between the spikes and saffron - colored blossoms of the latter , like flames twinkling among ...
... beauty to the Plains about the Little Blue , and which here fought for a bare existence with the thickening myriads of cacti , bursting up between the spikes and saffron - colored blossoms of the latter , like flames twinkling among ...
Seite 127
... beauty which you find in it till you see it issuing from its lofty cañon back of Den- ver . All the way that we skirted remainder of the afternoon , it was it during the studded with picturesque islands , green as emerald . When the sun ...
... beauty which you find in it till you see it issuing from its lofty cañon back of Den- ver . All the way that we skirted remainder of the afternoon , it was it during the studded with picturesque islands , green as emerald . When the sun ...
Seite 130
... beauty . The cinnamon teal and the ruddy duck were rich warm patches that slipped past like tinted vapor ; while the green and blue - winged teal shone cool and steely in the dawn which had come to waken them with me . It seems to me ...
... beauty . The cinnamon teal and the ruddy duck were rich warm patches that slipped past like tinted vapor ; while the green and blue - winged teal shone cool and steely in the dawn which had come to waken them with me . It seems to me ...
Seite 131
... beauty , near its upper edge . It is rimmed with a mere thread of opaline and crystalline light . For a moment it sways before you , and is confused . But your eagerness grows steadier , you see plainer , and know that you are looking ...
... beauty , near its upper edge . It is rimmed with a mere thread of opaline and crystalline light . For a moment it sways before you , and is confused . But your eagerness grows steadier , you see plainer , and know that you are looking ...
Seite 152
... beauty of some specimens we found here . Looking at the cross section of one of the stone saplings , the merest tyro saw at a glance the history of its growth , - and the position which it had occupied in the 152 THE HEART OF THE ...
... beauty of some specimens we found here . Looking at the cross section of one of the stone saplings , the merest tyro saw at a glance the history of its growth , - and the position which it had occupied in the 152 THE HEART OF THE ...
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