California and the Far West: Suggestions for the Westbound TravelerJ. Pott, 1914 - 198 páginas |
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Página 69 - DEEP in the wave is a coral grove. Where the purple mullet and goldfish rove, Where the sea-flower spreads its leaves of blue, That never are wet with falling dew, But in bright and changeful beauty shine, Far down in the green and glassy brine...
Página 174 - Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.
Página 87 - ... purchased goods, the soldiers do their duty so quietly that the traveler is scarce aware of their presence. This is the coolest and highest of the parks. Frosts occur every month of the year. Nevertheless, the tenderest tourist finds it warm enough in summer. The air is electric and full of ozone, healing, reviving, exhilarating, kept pure by frost and fire, while the scenery is wild enough to awaken the dead. It is a glorious place to grow in and rest in; camping on the shores of the...
Página 79 - Canyon, and consists of a group of houses with ruins of 146 rooms, including 20 round kivas, or ceremonial rooms, and a tapering loopholed tower, forming a crescent of about 100 yards...
Página 18 - And the glacier-glutted streams sweep down at the clarion call of June. There where the livid tundras keep their tryst with the tranquil snows; There where the silences are spawned, and the light of hell-fire flows Into the bowl of the midnight sky, violet, amber and rose.
Página 88 - However orderly your excursions or aimless, again and again amid the calmest, stillest scenery you will be brought to a standstill, hushed and awe-stricken, before phenomena wholly new to you. Boiling springs and huge deep pools of purest green and azure water, thousands of them, are plashing and heaving in these high, cool mountains, as if a fierce furnace fire were burning beneath each one of them ; and a hundred geysers, white torrents of boiling water and steam, like inverted waterfalls, are...
Página 132 - Mr. Ward in his report, among other things, says: SCENIC FEATURES. " With regard to the first of these' viz, the scenic aspect, I can safely say that it has never been exaggerated by any who have attempted to describe this region. The pictures given in the letter of the assistant secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, above quoted, are not overdrawn, and the more or less glowing descriptions of Mollhausen, Marcou, Newberry, and other explorers fall far short of what might truly be said from this...
Página 145 - October is almost as unheard of as the proverbial thunder from a cloudless .sky. In the southern portions of the desert are many strange freaks of vegetable life — huge cacti sixty feet tall, and as large around as a barrel, with singular arms which make them look like gigantic candelabra ; smaller but equally fantastic varieties of cactus, from the tall, lithe ocalilla, or whipstock cactus, down to the tiny knob smaller than a china cup, whose innocent-looking needles give it a roseate halo. The...
Página 34 - ... routes, and that should one lose the beaten trail there is little or no hope of extricating one's self by another way. Several lives have been lost on the mountain, in every case by parties venturing out without the aid of guides. There are several reasons for securing the services of a competent guide. In the first place, the route does not consist of a definitely marked path. It leads for miles over snow fields on which footprints melt away from one day to the next. In the second place, it...
Página 22 - ... cold virginal sisters, grim guardians of the northern shores of the Pacific. These stupendous mountain masses (a mile taller than Switzerland's champion), their feet buried under a glacier which lines the coast for more than a hundred miles, are even more impressive than the loftiest of the world's famous peaks, either in the Himalayas or the Andes; for while these rise from lofty interior plateaus, the sweep of St. Elias is from ocean to sky, with nothing to break the foreground. . . . The The...