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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... Rock Butts , whence I was to commence my north- erly course , I was in veritable torment . I felt like a German Zwieback , dry - rusked through and through by a sun which pelted mercilessly on that shadeless waste , hot as our Eastern ...
... Rock Butts , whence I was to commence my north- erly course , I was in veritable torment . I felt like a German Zwieback , dry - rusked through and through by a sun which pelted mercilessly on that shadeless waste , hot as our Eastern ...
Seite 96
... rock , which laminated with comparative difficulty , was a perfect congeries of gasteropod univalves , both fossil shell and cast remaining perfect . What sur- prised me most was to find slate containing these obsolete shells , so soft ...
... rock , which laminated with comparative difficulty , was a perfect congeries of gasteropod univalves , both fossil shell and cast remaining perfect . What sur- prised me most was to find slate containing these obsolete shells , so soft ...
Seite 100
... Rock Creek with the Republican . Here we picketed our horses , and prepared to camp down , building a magnificent fire of old logs , with a hollow cotton - wood for a chimney . Thompson finally ap- peared to tell us that the others had ...
... Rock Creek with the Republican . Here we picketed our horses , and prepared to camp down , building a magnificent fire of old logs , with a hollow cotton - wood for a chimney . Thompson finally ap- peared to tell us that the others had ...
Seite 131
... rock , anything terrestrial ; to fancy them cloven by horrible chasms , or shaggy with giant woods . They are made out of the air and the sunshine which show them . Nature has dipped her pencil in the faintest solution of ultra- marine ...
... rock , anything terrestrial ; to fancy them cloven by horrible chasms , or shaggy with giant woods . They are made out of the air and the sunshine which show them . Nature has dipped her pencil in the faintest solution of ultra- marine ...
Seite 154
... Rock , " or rather the no - name , since new settlers are not sufficiently in communication with each other to be bothered about originality , and have illustrated the proverbial coincidence of great minds by fasten- ing this ...
... Rock , " or rather the no - name , since new settlers are not sufficiently in communication with each other to be bothered about originality , and have illustrated the proverbial coincidence of great minds by fasten- ing this ...
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