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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... rise where I have supposed , its course is perhaps the best natural line for that portion of the Pacific Rail- road to be run between the main Kansas and Denver . Fewer engineering difficulties would exist on this line than on any other ...
... rise where I have supposed , its course is perhaps the best natural line for that portion of the Pacific Rail- road to be run between the main Kansas and Denver . Fewer engineering difficulties would exist on this line than on any other ...
Seite 142
... turfy glades , those enameled banks , which beautify the mountains of our Atlantic slope . The landscape is without a single patch of bright green . The mountains rise up in rugged , brawny masses , without 142 THE HEART OF THE CONTINENT .
... turfy glades , those enameled banks , which beautify the mountains of our Atlantic slope . The landscape is without a single patch of bright green . The mountains rise up in rugged , brawny masses , without 142 THE HEART OF THE CONTINENT .
Seite 143
... rise up in rugged , brawny masses , without the apology of color for a nakedness that is grand in itself . They oppress you with such sublime size , they are the evident stone - mask of such a tremendous force spent in the old centuries ...
... rise up in rugged , brawny masses , without the apology of color for a nakedness that is grand in itself . They oppress you with such sublime size , they are the evident stone - mask of such a tremendous force spent in the old centuries ...
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... rise in basins at the top of im- mense masses of this incrustation , standing perpen- dicularly out of the stream . The Glauber's - salt taste of the waters is agreeably modified by a stream of carbonic acid , which jets up through the ...
... rise in basins at the top of im- mense masses of this incrustation , standing perpen- dicularly out of the stream . The Glauber's - salt taste of the waters is agreeably modified by a stream of carbonic acid , which jets up through the ...
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... rise abruptly out of perfectly level ground . The right hand or northern warder of the gateway is more wedge - shaped than tabular , and con- tains within it a cavern , which we penetrated with some difficulty by a small aperture ...
... rise abruptly out of perfectly level ground . The right hand or northern warder of the gateway is more wedge - shaped than tabular , and con- tains within it a cavern , which we penetrated with some difficulty by a small aperture ...
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