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DESOLATION

23 May 2018 by Alan

Valley of Desolation, Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa – Valley Of Desolation

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22 May 2018 by Alan

Valley of Desolation, Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa – Valley Of Desolation

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21 May 2018 by Alan

First glimpse – Valley Of Desolation

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Finally on the Rockbound Trail, and Rockbound Pass in the distance, right of center.

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21 May 2018 by Alan

Merged panoramic of Lake Schmidell & Rockbound Valley — at Desolation Wilderness. – Valley Of Desolation

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19 May 2018 by Alan

Lake Aloha under the Crystal Range – Valley Of Desolation

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18 May 2018 by Alan

Image from page 300 of “The countries of the world : being a popular description of the various continents, islands, rivers, seas, and peoples of the globe” (1876) – Valley Of Desolation

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Title: The countries of the world : being a popular description of the various continents, islands, rivers, seas, and peoples of the globe
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Brown, Robert, 1842-1895
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Publisher: London New York : Cassell, Petter, Galpin & co.
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e account iirstappeared in the Lfiiuhm Muguzine, but no man, so far as I am aware, has been ableto discover the original of the talc, and it is generally understood that the whole wasthe work of George Steevens, an unscrupulous antiquary, who was never happier thanwhen entrapping his contemporaries in the meshes of some ingenious hoax. However,the story was too attractive not to seize the imagination. Erasmus Darwin embalmed itin his stately verses, poets of a less scientific type followed his example, while paintereinnumerable vied with each other in picturing the scene of so much desolation. In reality INDOMAI.AYSIA : JAVA. «!),» tlie life is a spurge (Aiiliarln fo.rictiriu), which, when pierced, exndcs a milky juiuc,containing, as is usually the case with such plants, an a<ri<l poison. But, so far finniheing as pestilent as described, the tree has liecii eultivatetl in our Iwtanic gardens,and is known to grow in the Java wcmkIs along with dthcr vegetation, which it does not

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TICK VIAS TREE (iliiKarit toiiearia) OF JAVA. injure, and on its branches birds and lizards have often been seen to perch. It is,however, f:iir tn say that the soil on which it grows is often cavernous, and iii thevalley of death exhales carbonic acid and sulphurous vapoui-s, which are fatal to animallife, and that from the same causes operating in the streams, many of the latter aredestitute of lishes. The juice is also used as an arrow poison, and often causes disagreealileirritation, or worse, to those who climb the tree, or wear a garment made of the innerbark. This irritating character is, however, common to the juice of the order to which 270 THE COUNTRIES OF THE WOKT.D. flie upas belongs. The tree is not eonfineJ to Java, for a traveller describes it astlourisliing in a valley near the town of Briini, iu Borneo, surrounded by hills coveredwith dense vegetation. It is, however, curious, as proving that the ancient tales aboutit are based on some foundation of fact, that the nati

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17 May 2018 by Alan

Image from page 329 of “Grant’s tour around the world; with incidents of his journey through England, Ireland, Scotland ..” (1879) – Valley Of Desolation

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Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Packard, J. F
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 Voyages around the world
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ng, over the very worstroad, perhaps, m the world. But there is not one who, inthe spare moments when he is not holding on to the sidesof the cart lest there might be too precipitate an introduc-tion to the Holy Land, does not feel that it is one of themost agreeable and most comfortable trips ever made. Weare coming into the foothills. We are passmg into thecountry of rocks. The summits of the hills glisten withthe white, shining stone, which afar off looks like snow.In some of the valleys we note clusters of olive trees.The feitility of Palestine lies in the plain below. Around AROUND THE WORLD. 321 and ateacl Is the beauty of Palestine—the beauty ofNature in her desolation—no houses, no farms, no trace ofcivilization but the telegraph poles. Now and then aswinging line of camels comes shambling along, led by aBedouin. If we were to stop and pause, we might remem-ber that until within a very recent period wild men dweltin these fastnesses, and that we might have a visit from the

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CHURNING IN THE EAST. Bedouins. But I dont think it ever occurred to any one,and if they came, they would find no weapon more dan-gerous than a cigar-case or a New Testament, which someof were reading with diligence in order to get up ourJerusalem and know what we are really to see when wecome within its sacred walls. ^ 322 GRANTS TOUR We liave our first biblical view when we pass the ruinsof Gezer, wbich Mr. Hardegg tells us was once a royalcity of the land of Canaan—that an Egyjotian monarchcaptured it and gave it to Solomon, when that wise kingbut widely disseminated husband married the conquerorsdaughter. There is nothing worth pausing to see, especiallyin the rain, and Solomon somehow does not interest us, forour thoughts are all on Jerusalem and one greater thanSolomon. At certain intervals we see a square stone guard-house, where soldiers oncejived to watch the roads. Butthe houses are abandoned and the soldiers have gone towar upon the Muscovite, and the road must take care

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15 May 2018 by Alan

Rockbound Pass – Valley Of Desolation

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14 May 2018 by Alan

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Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Thayer, William Makepeace, 1820-1898
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declared thatthis ride cannot be duplicated in the whole world ; that neither writernor painter can do justice to the attractions. From personal obser-vation we affirm that some of the wildest scenery which we saw inthe Rocky Mountains was seen here. In some localities it ceased to 288 MARVELS OF THE NEW WEST. be grand and became awful. The thought of penetrating such an* abyss of desolation in a Pullman car would have seemed absurd butfor the fact that ours was doing that very thing. A photographicview in this canon, at an interesting point, will give a good idea ofthe wild, rough, and desolate appearance of the gorge. We remember with peculiar interest a descent into a narrow valley,where, in order to ascend the mountains on the opposite side, therailway made a detour of several miles, skirting a lot of five or sixacres or more in performing the feat. We drew a plan of the roadin our note-book at the time, and subsequently found a pictorialrepresentation of it (see following page).

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CHALK CREEK CANON. At a point eight or ten miles from the Alpine Tunnel, a passen-ger said, pointing to the west, See that black spot yonder! that isthe tunnel. The black spot appeared to be about as large as amans hat, and a mile away. All were surprised to be told that it wasdistant eight or ten miles. The tunnel is above timber-line, continued our informant, toohigh up for anything to grow. What is the altitude } we asked. Eleven thousand six hundred and twenty-three feet above the sea,the highest railway in the world, except one in the South AmericanAndes. MARVELS OF ENTERPRISE. 289

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14 May 2018 by Alan

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10 May 2018 by Alan

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
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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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9 May 2018 by Alan

Valley of Desolation, Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa

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6 May 2018 by Alan

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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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4 May 2018 by Alan

Yellow Pomegranate (Rhigozum obovatum) flower – Valley Of Desolation

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3 May 2018 by Alan

Mallard duckling – Valley Of Desolation

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1 May 2018 by Alan

Spekboom (Portulacaria afra) – Valley Of Desolation

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29 April 2018 by Alan

Image from page 138 of “The pioneers of ’49. A history of the excursion of the Society of California pioneers of New England” (1891) – Valley Of Desolation

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Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Ball, Nicholas
Subjects: Society of California Pioneers of New England
Publisher: Boston, Lee and Shepard
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turesque bays known to the navigator than those ofSan Francisco and San Diego? Is there a beach more beautiful than that of Santa Cruz orMonterey, Santa Barbara or Santa Monica, Oceanside or Coronado? Have the islands, therocky cliffs, the bold headlands, the ever varying, never wearying panorama of the 1,000miles of coast line belonging to California their superior in all this broad world? Whether it be peaceful valley or rugged mountain, vast glacier or gushing artesiarufountain,immense snow field or lovely strand, blue sky or purple sunset, desert desolation or thehighest types of mans skill as a husbandman, all these in their perfection exist in the GoldenState. What State so seldom sends out an emigrant! What State is more worthy of alllove and admiration bestowed upon it? Not, it is true, the California that men have made it,— in all respects. There is all toomuch to cause the Californian, who has the best good of his home at heart, to blush; but the oS X w > 0 oz zw r >

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WIJfTER OJ^ THE SIERRA. 109 California that God made, and upon whicli He has left the impress of His hand in suchunmistakable fashion,— the California cf untrodden forest and unmeasured mountain, ofvalleys filled with happy natives and unfrightened game, of other valleys where the water hasmade fruitful gardens from a desert, of beautiful cities and lovely homes; not the Californiaof the desperado and the land grabber, of the destroyed forest and the ruined stream, andall the unlovely insignia of mans greed and carelessness for the welfare of others, but theCalifornia of nature untrammeled, as well as nature controlled and developed by the skillfulhand and artistic sense of intelligent man. Let the tourist leave his Eastern home after the winter season shall have commenced.Journeying westward, the same climatic exigencies common to all the country east of theSierra are encountered. Icy winds sweep the plains, snow lies to a depth of many feet uponthe face of the earth, the windows o

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Category: ImagesTag: '49., 1891, California, DESOLATION, England, excursion, from, History, image, page, pioneers, Society, VALLEY
26 April 2018 by Alan

Pigs Ears (Cotyledon orbiculata) – Valley Of Desolation

Pigs Ears (Cotyledon orbiculata) Image by berniedup Valley of Desolation Road, Camdeboo NP, Eastern Cape, SOUTH AFRICA This Valley of Desolation image was automatically curated and published with WP Robot plugin – CLICK HERE to learn more about WP Robot for WordPress – a massive time and money saver.

Pigs Ears (Cotyledon orbiculata)
Valley of Desolation
Image by berniedup
Valley of Desolation Road, Camdeboo NP, Eastern Cape, SOUTH AFRICA

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Category: ImagesTag: Cotyledon, DESOLATION, Ears, orbiculata, Pigs, VALLEY
25 April 2018 by Alan

Common Turkey Bush (Melianthus comosus) – Valley Of Desolation

Common Turkey Bush (Melianthus comosus) Image by berniedup Valley of Desolation Road, Camdeboo NP, Eastern Cape, SOUTH AFRICA This Valley of Desolation image was automatically curated and published with WP Robot plugin – CLICK HERE to learn more about WP Robot for WordPress – a massive time and money saver.

Common Turkey Bush (Melianthus comosus)
Valley of Desolation
Image by berniedup
Valley of Desolation Road, Camdeboo NP, Eastern Cape, SOUTH AFRICA

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Category: ImagesTag: Bush, Common, comosus, DESOLATION, Melianthus, Turkey, VALLEY
20 April 2018 by Alan

On the moors – Valley Of Desolation

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On the moors
Valley of Desolation
Image by russelljsmith

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Category: ImagesTag: DESOLATION, Moors, VALLEY
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