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Image from page 414 of “Frémont and ’49 : the story of a remarkable career and its relation to the exploration and development of our western territory, especially of California” (1914) – Valley Of Desolation

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Title: Frémont and ’49 : the story of a remarkable career and its relation to the exploration and development of our western territory, especially of California
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Dellenbaugh, Frederick Samuel, 1853-1935
Subjects: Frémont, John Charles, 1813-1890 Frémont, John Charles, 1813-1890 Discoveries in geography Explorers
Publisher: New York London : G.P. Putnam’s Sons
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
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reen and Colorado rivers free from canyons. Just abovethe mouth of Ashley Creek is the end of Split-MountainCanyon, the termination also of the first section of canyons,beginning with Flaming Gorge, and broken only by BrownsHole towards which the caravan is heading. ^ Fremont keptto the left or west of these gorges, camping high up on themountainside on the night of the 6th of June at an altitudeof 7300 feet, whence they had a view of the Colorado below,shut up amongst rugged mountains. He is hardly nearenough to any canyon to be looking into it, and I surmisehe sees the river in Island Park, a brief interval betweenWhirlpool and Split-Mountain canyons. It was in UintaValley (which extends from Split Mountain to the Canyon The canyons of the Colorado may be divided into five general groups:(i) from Flaming Gorge to Uinta Valley; (2) Uinta Valley to GunnisonCrossing; (3) Gunnison Crossing to the mouth of the Paria (Pahreeah); (4)the Paria to the Grand Wash; and 5, all below that point.

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The Canyon of Lodore, Green River, Wyoming Fremont in 1844 passed just west of this canyon going north and at one point could look down into it. This canyon is twenty miles long and 2500 feet deep Photograph by E. O. Beaman Fort Davy Crockett 273 of Desolation), where the parallel of 40° 19 cuts the Green,that Escalante crossed in 1776 and travelled west as faras Utah Lake by very much the same route that Fremonthas just come over. The Escalante account says 41° 19,but that would be in Green River Valley, which is out of thequestion. There is a mistake of one degree. After a pleasant journey, on May 7th, through beautifullittle valleys and a high mountain country (east end of theUinta Mountains) they descended at evening through asteep and rocky ravine into Browns Hole, now BrownsPark, the name having been changed by Major Powell forthe sake of euphony, and because the Hole is a fine park-like valley, and not a hole in any sense. I once met a pioneerwho was much nettled at what he c

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Image from page 101 of “Six and one abroad” (1914) – Valley Of Desolation

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Title: Six and one abroad
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Thomas, Sidney J., 1868-
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ght Tivo Rainy Bays in Damascus 87 had just begun to fold her sable tent like the Arab and silentlysteal aAvay. There was no obstruction of cloud or mist norvague suggestion of either. The morning star, dazzling and inthe full splendor of its perihelion, negligenth^ irregular, asthough the hand of God had thrown a bit of plastic gloryagainst the blue east wall, glowed and palpitated from itsplace, Avhile the golden crescent moon sought to reach it withextended graceful arms. This beautiful picture suggested thepresent ascendency of the Mohammedan religion in the Eastand the supremacy of the Star and Crescent. But in a shorttime the purple and crimson heralds of the King of Day ap-peared, and when he arose in majesty and threw all lesserlights into eclipse, I thought of the time that is surely coming,it may be soon or it may be long, when the sun of the Chris-tian religion will arise upon the land of Mohammedanism andthrow its religion into total and eternal eclipse. Six and One Abroad

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CHAPTEE X. Lake Galilee and the City of Nazareth. A desolation of treeless hills and imwatered valleys stretchesfrom the southern limits of the plain of Damascus to the north-ern boundary of Galilee, or the Holy Land proper. It is adesert, uninhabited save by wanderling bands of Bedouinsexcept in an occasional spot where water is found in sufficientquantities to sustain a village. The greater part of the countrylying along the route of the railroad is covered with limestoneboulders so numerous often that they seem to have been sownbroadcast. Sometimes a herd of sheep and a lone and lonesomekeeper relieve the monotony of the waste, and sheepfolds ofboulders rudely thrown together are its only architecture.Caravan roads, those trackless highways that have existedunchanged and unimproved since the time of Abraham, windaround the mountains and across the waddies, and anonin the distance upon these primitive trails slow moving linesof camels may be seen half hidden in the clouds of dust th

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Image from page 249 of “Fur and feather in North China” (1914)

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Title: Fur and feather in North China
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Sowerby, Arthur de Carle, 1885-1954
Subjects: Zoology — China Birds — China
Publisher: Tientsin, North China : Tientsin Press
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
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ff colour marbledwith dark brown. The male is of a light greeny-brown, without marb-lings. It is very common in North Shensi and even in the Ordos Desert.During the dry season it burrows deep into the loess or sand, and sopreserves itself from dessication. It spawns in the small rivers, moun-ifin streams and lakes, but otherwise keeps away from water. The common toad, though found nearly all over the world, is farless common in North China than the foregoing species. It is of a dullearth-brown colour, and would be an ugly creature indeed were it not FROGS, TOADS AND SO^IE FRESH-WATER FISH. 171 for the wonderful gem-like eye. It is Shakespeare who has said, the toad, ugly and venomous. Wears yet a precious jewel in fiis head.referring doubtless to the creatures wonderful eye. To which, if either, of these species a very large toad that I havefrequently come across belongs I do not know. This variety isremarkable both for its size and the great number and size of theworts upon its skin.

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