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... supports a growth of sage and cacti , or even a few pinon pines and cedars . The only vegetation is that characteristic of an arid country . This aridity has modified orographic forms to an astonishing degree . Where , under different ...
... supports a growth of sage and cacti , or even a few pinon pines and cedars . The only vegetation is that characteristic of an arid country . This aridity has modified orographic forms to an astonishing degree . Where , under different ...
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... supported a little town , Oro , of 100 or 200 inhabitants , who maintained themselves by working two or three gold claims high up in the mountains above the gulch , and by re - working the tailings from the placers . In 1879 a flume was ...
... supported a little town , Oro , of 100 or 200 inhabitants , who maintained themselves by working two or three gold claims high up in the mountains above the gulch , and by re - working the tailings from the placers . In 1879 a flume was ...
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... supported by public charity , enormously . The extent of it is characterised by the following statement : While of the native whites there were but nine paupers out of each 10,000 people , among the foreign - born there were thirty out ...
... supported by public charity , enormously . The extent of it is characterised by the following statement : While of the native whites there were but nine paupers out of each 10,000 people , among the foreign - born there were thirty out ...
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... supported by the community , is found in every state and practically every county of the land . It is supported mainly by direct taxation , in many states by a special tax — the school tax . In all the newer states , moreover , the ...
... supported by the community , is found in every state and practically every county of the land . It is supported mainly by direct taxation , in many states by a special tax — the school tax . In all the newer states , moreover , the ...
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... supported by the state , has long been the leading institution on the Pacific coast . Another , recently founded through the munificence of Mr. Leland Stanford , is located at Palo Alto , a few miles south of San Francisco , and being ...
... supported by the state , has long been the leading institution on the Pacific coast . Another , recently founded through the munificence of Mr. Leland Stanford , is located at Palo Alto , a few miles south of San Francisco , and being ...
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Страница 423 - Island, which point lies in the parallel of 54 degrees 40 minutes north latitude, and between the 131st and 133d degree of west longitude (meridian of Greenwich), the said line shall ascend to the north along the channel called Portland Channel, as far as the point of the continent where it strikes the 56th degree of north latitude...
Страница 423 - North latitude, and between the 131st and the 133d degree of West longitude (Meridian of Greenwich), the said line shall ascend to the North along the Channel called Portland Channel, as far as the Point of the Continent where it strikes the...
Страница 424 - ... degree of west longitude shall prove to be at the distance of more than ten marine leagues from the ocean, the limit between the British possessions and the line of coast which is to belong to Russia, as above mentioned...
Страница 75 - Then clouds arrange in strata across the canyon, with intervening vista views to cliffs and rocks beyond. The clouds are children of the heavens, and when they play among the rocks they lift them to the region above.
Страница 76 - There is a descent of perhaps 75 or 80 feet in a third of a mile, and the rushing waters break into great waves on the rocks, and lash themselves into a mad, white foam. We can land just above, but there is no foothold on either side by which we can make a portage. It is nearly a thousand feet to the top of the granite...
Страница 76 - One might imagine that this was intended for the library of the gods; and it was. The shelves are not for books, but form the stony leaves of one great book. He who would read the language of the universe may dig out letters here and 25 COL there, and with them spell the words, and read, in a slow and imperfect way, but still so as to understand a little, the story of creation.
Страница 71 - Those who have long and carefully studied the Grand Canyon of the Colorado do not hesitate for a moment to pronounce it by far the most sublime of all earthly spectacles.
Страница 72 - ... for a moment to pronounce it by far the most sublime of all earthly spectacles. If its sublimity consisted only in its dimensions, it could be sufficiently set forth, in a single sentence. It is more than 200 miles long, from 5 to 12 miles wide, and from 5,000 to 6,000 feet deep.
Страница 75 - ... overhead, its walls of black granite, and its river bright with the sheen of broken waters. Then a gust of wind sweeps down a side gulch, and, making a rift in the clouds, reveals the blue heavens, and a stream of sunlight pours in. Then the clouds drift away into...
Страница 150 - Ohio Indiana Illinois Michigan Wisconsin Minnesota Iowa Missouri North Dakota South Dakota Nebraska Kansas Montana Wyoming Colorado New Mexico Arizona Utah Nevada Idaho Washington Oregon California ERRATA Throughout this book for " Cape Colony " read " Cape of Good Hope " ; for " Orange River Colony " read " Orange Free State Province"; and for "Congo Free State