New Tracks in North America: A Journal of Travel and Adventure Whilst Engaged in the Survey for a Southern Railroad to the Pacific Ocean During 1867-8Chapman & Hall, 1870 - 564 strani |
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New Tracks in North America: A Journal of Travel and Adventure Whilst ... William Abraham Bell Prikaz kratkega opisa - 1965 |
New Tracks in North America: A Journal of Travel and Adventure Whilst ... William Abraham Bell Prikaz kratkega opisa - 1965 |
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Stran lvi - Banks, and no celerity or vigor, will avail, so far as he is concerned ; next, that by a glance at the map it will be seen that the line of retreat of the enemy's forces up the Valley is shorter than mine to go against him. It will take a week or ten days for the force to get to the valley by...
Stran 172 - To us it was a rare sight to be thrown in the midst of a large nation of what is termed wild Indians, surpassing many of the Christian nations in agriculture, little behind them in the useful arts, and immeasurably before them in honesty and virtue.
Stran 493 - UP are tremendously in earnest. The moment the car is empty it is tipped over on the side of the track to let the next loaded car pass it, and then it is tipped back again, and it is a sight to see it go flying back for another load, propelled by a horse at full gallop at the end of sixty or eighty feet of rope, ridden by a young Jehu, who drives furiously. Close behind the first gang come the gaugers, spikers, and bolters, and a lively time they make of it. It is a grand Anvil Chorus that those...
Stran 172 - A woman was seated on the ground under the shade of one of the cotton sheds. Her left leg was tucked under her seat, and her foot turned sole upwards ; between her big toe and the next, was a spindle about eighteen inches long, with a single fly of four or six inches. Ever and anon she gave it a twist in a dexterous manner, and at its end was drawn a coarse cotton thread.
Stran 493 - A light car, drawn by a single horse, gallops up to the front with its load of rails. Two men seize the end of a rail and start forward, the rest of the gang taking hold by twos until it is clear of the car. They come forward at a run. At the word of command the rail is dropped in its place, right side up, with care, while the same process goes on at the other side of the car.
Stran 215 - The people f are somewhat white ; they wear apparel, and lie on beds ; their weapons are bows ; they have emeralds and other jewels, although they esteem none so much as turquoises, wherewith they adorn the walls of the porches of their houses, and their apparel and vessels; and they use them instead of money through all the country.
Stran lv - ... be to refer them to that embodiment of resistless power — the sword that cuts so many geological knots — volcanic force. The Great Canon of the Colorado would be considered a vast fissure or rent in the earth's crust, and the abrupt termination of the steps of the table-lands as marking lines of displacement. This theory though so plausible, and so entirely adequate to explain all the striking phenomena, lacks a single requisite to acceptance, and that is truth.
Stran liv - Probably nowhere in the world has the action of this agent produced results so surprising, both as regards their magnitude and their peculiar character.
Stran 484 - ... all compensation for services rendered for the Government shall be applied to the payment of said bonds and interest until the whole amount is fully paid.
Stran 172 - ... of the arrangements for irrigating and draining the land. Corn, wheat, and cotton are the crops of this peaceful and intelligent race of people. All the crops have been gathered in, and the stubbles show they have been luxuriant.