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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... precipice resulting from such a process , beheld the deep furrows of the brink , counted the slippery shelves beneath it , yet heard no voice of water break the desert silence , would experience some such sensation as I did on beholding ...
... precipice resulting from such a process , beheld the deep furrows of the brink , counted the slippery shelves beneath it , yet heard no voice of water break the desert silence , would experience some such sensation as I did on beholding ...
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... precipice or overhanging wall of trachyte , two or three hun- dred feet high . We marked the first appearance of the Platte , far to the south , in the fold of a system of round gray hills , which , as nearly as could be judged from ...
... precipice or overhanging wall of trachyte , two or three hun- dred feet high . We marked the first appearance of the Platte , far to the south , in the fold of a system of round gray hills , which , as nearly as could be judged from ...
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... precipice , I turned away from the beautiful valley view to look upward at those grim crags and ter- races , by whose staircase we were descending to the Platte . I had looked just in time , for my point of view was exactly right for ...
... precipice , I turned away from the beautiful valley view to look upward at those grim crags and ter- races , by whose staircase we were descending to the Platte . I had looked just in time , for my point of view was exactly right for ...
Seite 247
... . I have heard from old hunters and Indians , that when surprised upon a precipice where there is no room to turn , the bighorn will plunge headlong a distance of a hundred feet , and strike THE APPROACH TO SALT LAKE CITY . 247.
... . I have heard from old hunters and Indians , that when surprised upon a precipice where there is no room to turn , the bighorn will plunge headlong a distance of a hundred feet , and strike THE APPROACH TO SALT LAKE CITY . 247.
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... precipice , and the third , al- most black shade of the same color , manifested by the occasional groups of stinted evergreens , which marked the base of the slopes ; while a still livelier tone was infused into the middle ground by the ...
... precipice , and the third , al- most black shade of the same color , manifested by the occasional groups of stinted evergreens , which marked the base of the slopes ; while a still livelier tone was infused into the middle ground by the ...
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