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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... sandstone . At the distance of forty yards , the illusion was absolutely startling . We could see a handsome clean cut - water , a clipper bow , a main- mast broken off short at the cross - trees , a battered funnel , a hatch with its ...
... sandstone . At the distance of forty yards , the illusion was absolutely startling . We could see a handsome clean cut - water , a clipper bow , a main- mast broken off short at the cross - trees , a battered funnel , a hatch with its ...
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... sandstone . I have mentioned only the two most important of many remarkablę uplifts , simulating every variety of artificial object that is conceivable of execution in stone . The human face and figure seemed among Nature's most ...
... sandstone . I have mentioned only the two most important of many remarkablę uplifts , simulating every variety of artificial object that is conceivable of execution in stone . The human face and figure seemed among Nature's most ...
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... sandstone , I will be sure that I have not been modest in estimating other men's imagination by my own . Between a series of perpendicular sandstone uplifts from two to five hundred feet high , and descending again to another green ...
... sandstone , I will be sure that I have not been modest in estimating other men's imagination by my own . Between a series of perpendicular sandstone uplifts from two to five hundred feet high , and descending again to another green ...
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... sandstone ; threaded black fissures ; and slid , with the brake hard on , down slippery stone inclines , just over the edge of whose narrow shelf was a sheer precipice or overhanging wall of trachyte , two or three hun- dred feet high ...
... sandstone ; threaded black fissures ; and slid , with the brake hard on , down slippery stone inclines , just over the edge of whose narrow shelf was a sheer precipice or overhanging wall of trachyte , two or three hun- dred feet high ...
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... sandstone , rising directly from the traveller's side to the almost perpendicular height of from a thousand to twenty- five hundred feet . In some places this gallery ap- pears scarcely more than a crevice of dislocation , a mere crack ...
... sandstone , rising directly from the traveller's side to the almost perpendicular height of from a thousand to twenty- five hundred feet . In some places this gallery ap- pears scarcely more than a crevice of dislocation , a mere crack ...
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