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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... tract . Less apparent to the eye , but abundantly sensible to feeling , were the minute buffalo - gnats , which at intervals during the past three days had much annoyed us along the Platte , but now became a nuisance justifying ...
... tract . Less apparent to the eye , but abundantly sensible to feeling , were the minute buffalo - gnats , which at intervals during the past three days had much annoyed us along the Platte , but now became a nuisance justifying ...
Seite 140
... tract to be explored before the connection can be absolutely established . All the attempts which had been made to track up the course of the stream prior to our visit at Denver , had failed on account of the extreme sterility of ...
... tract to be explored before the connection can be absolutely established . All the attempts which had been made to track up the course of the stream prior to our visit at Denver , had failed on account of the extreme sterility of ...
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... tract of level country quite embosomed be- tween snow - ridges , and , so to speak , alcoved into the very heart of the system . These are the " Parks ; " and they form one of the most interesting as well as characteristic features of ...
... tract of level country quite embosomed be- tween snow - ridges , and , so to speak , alcoved into the very heart of the system . These are the " Parks ; " and they form one of the most interesting as well as characteristic features of ...
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... tract is a fossil forest . Its trees , to be sure , are lev- eled with the ground ; but their stumps and many of their prostrate trunks remain in a condition of stony metamorphosis which may challenge the Enchanted Groves of fairy lore ...
... tract is a fossil forest . Its trees , to be sure , are lev- eled with the ground ; but their stumps and many of their prostrate trunks remain in a condition of stony metamorphosis which may challenge the Enchanted Groves of fairy lore ...
Seite 154
... tract was once cov ered with strongly silicated springs , and that as fast as death deprived a tree of its elaborating and selec- tive apparatus , it became a mere mechanically acting bundle of capillaries , and sucked up the liquor of ...
... tract was once cov ered with strongly silicated springs , and that as fast as death deprived a tree of its elaborating and selec- tive apparatus , it became a mere mechanically acting bundle of capillaries , and sucked up the liquor of ...
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