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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... plateaus . It occupies a surface of about fifty miles square ; is as smooth as an Illinois prairie ; and the sensation ... plateau is an alluvial de- posit , belonging , so far as I could learn from a per- pendicular section on the west ...
... plateaus . It occupies a surface of about fifty miles square ; is as smooth as an Illinois prairie ; and the sensation ... plateau is an alluvial de- posit , belonging , so far as I could learn from a per- pendicular section on the west ...
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... plateau , in a direction nearly parallel to the Wind River chain , runs a long black range of rolling mountains , three or four thousand feet high above the Plains level , bare as the bumps on a phrenologist's cast , and possessing the ...
... plateau , in a direction nearly parallel to the Wind River chain , runs a long black range of rolling mountains , three or four thousand feet high above the Plains level , bare as the bumps on a phrenologist's cast , and possessing the ...
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... plateau is upborne , flow the Missouri and the Yel- lowstone to the easterly ; the Snake , or principal fork of the Columbia , to the westward ; and in a direction south by westerly the Green , or main branch of the Colorado River ...
... plateau is upborne , flow the Missouri and the Yel- lowstone to the easterly ; the Snake , or principal fork of the Columbia , to the westward ; and in a direction south by westerly the Green , or main branch of the Colorado River ...
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... Plateau , the North Platte is wind- ing in a general westerly direction out of the snow- peaks which nurture its infancy . Eighty miles west of the Laramie Plains summit level , it makes an ab- rupt bend to the north , and thence ...
... Plateau , the North Platte is wind- ing in a general westerly direction out of the snow- peaks which nurture its infancy . Eighty miles west of the Laramie Plains summit level , it makes an ab- rupt bend to the north , and thence ...
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... plateau as we reached Little Laramie ; and the effect of his level rays upon the exquisite cool ver- dure of the grass , with all these brilliant flowers dashed in for the high tones , was something out of which to manufacture peaceful ...
... plateau as we reached Little Laramie ; and the effect of his level rays upon the exquisite cool ver- dure of the grass , with all these brilliant flowers dashed in for the high tones , was something out of which to manufacture peaceful ...
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