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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... plateau to which we had climbed from Camp Halleck was a mere clean skeleton of the world . Telescopes reveal to us a very similar tract in the moon , and geology takes us back to a time when the earth was all thus . I think that the man ...
... plateau to which we had climbed from Camp Halleck was a mere clean skeleton of the world . Telescopes reveal to us a very similar tract in the moon , and geology takes us back to a time when the earth was all thus . I think that the man ...
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... plateau , there was nothing but pure rock be- tween us and the horizon . Vast stones lay heaped up into pyramids as if they had been rained from the sky . Cubical masses , each covering an acre of surface and rising to a perpendicular ...
... plateau , there was nothing but pure rock be- tween us and the horizon . Vast stones lay heaped up into pyramids as if they had been rained from the sky . Cubical masses , each covering an acre of surface and rising to a perpendicular ...
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... plateau was an uplift of trap - rock in the neighborhood of the sand- stone cataract , taking the form of a colossal steam- ship , much keeled to leeward , and rising the crest of a lofty billow of sandstone . At the distance of forty ...
... plateau was an uplift of trap - rock in the neighborhood of the sand- stone cataract , taking the form of a colossal steam- ship , much keeled to leeward , and rising the crest of a lofty billow of sandstone . At the distance of forty ...
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... plateau . On a bright sunny day like the one we spent in cross- ing it , the sensation of the traveller resembles a pleas- ant nightmare ; he feels that if he stayed a night in this wilderness of naked blocks , he would depart mad . The ...
... plateau . On a bright sunny day like the one we spent in cross- ing it , the sensation of the traveller resembles a pleas- ant nightmare ; he feels that if he stayed a night in this wilderness of naked blocks , he would depart mad . The ...
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... plateau and Virginia Dale , tolerably green and well watered from the snow - peaks . As we pro- ceeded , the ... plateaus . It occupies a surface of INTO THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS . 211.
... plateau and Virginia Dale , tolerably green and well watered from the snow - peaks . As we pro- ceeded , the ... plateaus . It occupies a surface of INTO THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS . 211.
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