The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal, Volume 22Stephen Denison Peet, J. O. Kinnaman Jameson & Morse, 1900 - America |
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... land rise into conical peaks , or into long , narrow- crested ridges ; but the profiles are long , horizontal lines , suddenly dropping down many hundreds , or even two thousand , feet upon another flat plain We are indebted to the ...
... land rise into conical peaks , or into long , narrow- crested ridges ; but the profiles are long , horizontal lines , suddenly dropping down many hundreds , or even two thousand , feet upon another flat plain We are indebted to the ...
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... land of tables and terraces , of buttes and mesas , of cliffs and canyons . Standing upon any elevated spot where the radius of vision reaches out fifty or a hundred miles , the observer beholds a strange spectacle . The most ...
... land of tables and terraces , of buttes and mesas , of cliffs and canyons . Standing upon any elevated spot where the radius of vision reaches out fifty or a hundred miles , the observer beholds a strange spectacle . The most ...
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... land of canyons , in the strictest mean- ing of that term . Gorges , ravines , and canadas are found , and are more or less impressive in every high region ; and in the vernacular of the West all such features are termed canyons ...
... land of canyons , in the strictest mean- ing of that term . Gorges , ravines , and canadas are found , and are more or less impressive in every high region ; and in the vernacular of the West all such features are termed canyons ...
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... land became dry and was fitted for the abode of men . There were sacred lakes be- neath which the spirits of the children , who had died , dwelt , but from their many - terraced homes , they sent their messen- gers to attend the sacred ...
... land became dry and was fitted for the abode of men . There were sacred lakes be- neath which the spirits of the children , who had died , dwelt , but from their many - terraced homes , they sent their messen- gers to attend the sacred ...
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... land of patience lay beneath a warm and shallow sea , as the centuries piled up layer upon layer of sand and rock . At last the uplift of the Sierras changed the sands to dry land and by the forces of erosion the sands were torn away ...
... land of patience lay beneath a warm and shallow sea , as the centuries piled up layer upon layer of sand and rock . At last the uplift of the Sierras changed the sands to dry land and by the forces of erosion the sands were torn away ...
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