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Farewell, But Not Goodbye: A Personal Thank You to the Community from Manny Lopes

Cradock in the News: Special to the Journal Manny Lopes, who has in many ways become the face of East Boston Neighborhood Health Center (EBNHC), will officially leave the Health Center Friday to become Executive Vice … Read more on: “Cradock” – BingNews Justice and Correctional Services minister, Ronald Lamola, will be among the speakers …

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Special to the Journal Manny Lopes, who has in many ways become the face of East Boston Neighborhood Health Center (EBNHC), will officially leave the Health Center Friday to become Executive Vice …

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Justice and Correctional Services minister, Ronald Lamola, will be among the speakers at the inaugural Fort Calata Memorial Lecture in Lingelihle, Cradock on 5 November 2021.A joint initiative of the …

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What happens when a commercial five-star safari lodge is transformed into a non-profit company? I paid a visit to Sanbona Wildlife Reserve.

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Tannie Evita emerges from lockdown

Cradock in the News: That Pieter-Dirk Uys has used lockdown creatively will be no surprise to anyone. But, 40 years after her 1981 debut and following 18 months of lockdown, his alter ego in a frock is back, with a … Read more on: “Cradock” – BingNews

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That Pieter-Dirk Uys has used lockdown creatively will be no surprise to anyone. But, 40 years after her 1981 debut and following 18 months of lockdown, his alter ego in a frock is back, with a …

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ADRIAN THRILLS: Tony Bennett bows with a little help from Lady Gaga with their latest record

Cradock in the News: There’s a new record from an unlikely double act: madcap diva Lady Gaga and crooner Tony Bennett. They followed that with a full album, Cheek To Cheek, in 2015. Read more on: “Cradock” – BingNews Less than 48 hours after a Cradock man made his first court appearance in court on …

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There’s a new record from an unlikely double act: madcap diva Lady Gaga and crooner Tony Bennett. They followed that with a full album, Cheek To Cheek, in 2015.

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Less than 48 hours after a Cradock man made his first court appearance in court on Tuesday for allegedly murdering a state prosecutor, his suspected accomplice, a woman police officer, died while …

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Ralarala, a district court prosecutor stationed in Lusikisiki, was murdered on Saturday, according to NPA Eastern Cape division spokesperson Anelisa Ngcakani. “It is alleged that during the evening …

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Mdumiseni Mduduzi Mkhize appeared before the Cradock Magistrate’s Court for the alleged murder of prosecutor Sivenathi Ralarala. The NPA said the passenger is Mkhize’s car who allegedly shot herself …

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The Louw brothers will make the Fish River Canoe Marathon with Ryan joining Greg and wife Cathy in a K3 boat for the expedition.

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A Cradock man made his first court appearance on Tuesday for allegedly murdering a state prosecutor in front of his family home on Heritage Day.

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An Eastern Cape policewoman, who was charged in absentia with murder, has died in hospital after wounding herself in the head on Saturday. Police say the 40-year-old, who was stationed at Maclear, …

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With new program, people calling for help in Portsmouth could get emergency teams from Chesapeake, and vice versa

Cradock in the News: The partnership is supposed to help reduce response times for people who need help in Portsmouth and Chesapeake. Read more on: “Cradock” – BingNews Portsmouth and Chesapeake Fire departments announced an automatic aid agreement that will dispatch the closest truck, no matter which city you live in. Read more on: “Cradock” …

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The partnership is supposed to help reduce response times for people who need help in Portsmouth and Chesapeake.

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Portsmouth and Chesapeake Fire departments announced an automatic aid agreement that will dispatch the closest truck, no matter which city you live in.

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Are ads there to distract us from depressing news?

Cradock in the News: COLUMN: “I’m beginning to wonder whether the advertisements may be there mainly to draw readers’ attention away from the horribly depressing contents of the actual news,” David Biggs writes. Read more on: “Cradock” – BingNews

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COLUMN: “I’m beginning to wonder whether the advertisements may be there mainly to draw readers’ attention away from the horribly depressing contents of the actual news,” David Biggs writes.

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Books sent out to thousands of Bradford children moving from primary to secondary school

Cradock in the News: THOUSANDS of primary school children across Bradford district are receiving a free book as part of a project to prepare them for moving up … Read more on: “Cradock” – BingNews The former TRC commissioners and the families of victims of apartheid-era crimes believe that a commission of inquiry is the …

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THOUSANDS of primary school children across Bradford district are receiving a free book as part of a project to prepare them for moving up …

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The former TRC commissioners and the families of victims of apartheid-era crimes believe that a commission of inquiry is the only way to bypass the vested and conflicted interests of political leaders …

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Paul Weller has announced an exciting new live album, ‘An Orchestrated Songbook,’ which was captured during a performance with the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

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A Wiltshire farmer who hasn’t been on a train for 50 years was given a special Father’s Day treat by his family on Sunday with a steam …

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Paul Weller on his sobriety: “I get more from music”

Cradock in the News: Paul Weller has discussed getting sober in a new interview, saying he gets “more from music” now than when he was drinking. Read more on: “Cradock” – BingNews

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Paul Weller has discussed getting sober in a new interview, saying he gets “more from music” now than when he was drinking.

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Listen To Paul Weller’s ‘Glad Times’, From New Album, ‘Fat Pop (Volume 1)’

Cradock in the News: Paul Weller has shared a second new track, Glad Times, from his upcoming album, Fat Pop (Volume 1), which is set for release on May 14. Read more on: “Cradock” – BingNews Analysis – Baking ‘soetbeskuit’ – the top tier of the rusk pyramid – is a three-day marathon that starts …

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Paul Weller has shared a second new track, Glad Times, from his upcoming album, Fat Pop (Volume 1), which is set for release on May 14.

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Analysis – Baking ‘soetbeskuit’ – the top tier of the rusk pyramid – is a three-day marathon that starts long before the water hits the flour.

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Baking ‘soetbeskuit’ – the top tier of the rusk pyramid – is a three-day marathon that starts long before the water hits the flour.

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Must love travel: Valentine’s Day 2021 specials from around the country

Karoo in the News: With Valentine’s Day around the corner, here’s a roundup of romantic specials for February at some of South Africa’s top hotels and lodges. Read more on: “Karoo” – BingNews

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With Valentine’s Day around the corner, here’s a roundup of romantic specials for February at some of South Africa’s top hotels and lodges.

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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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Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Brown, Robert, 1842-1895
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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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Year: 1879 (1870s)
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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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wrote Stephens many years ago, thestillness of a ruined city is nowhere so impressiveas when sitting on the steps of its theatre : oncethronged with the pleasure-seeking crowds, butnow given up to solitude and desolation. Dayafter day these seats had been filled and thenow silent rocks had re-echoed to the applaudingshouts of thousands ; and little could an ancientEdomite imagine that a solitary stranger, from athen unknown world, would one day be wanderingamong the ruins of his proud and wonderful city,meditating upon the fate of a race that has for agespassed away. Where are ye, inhabitants of thisdesolate city ? Ye who once sat on the seats ofthis theatre, the young, the high-born, the beautiful,the brave ; who once rejoiced in your riches andpower, and lived as if there were no grave ? Whereare ye now ? Even the very tombs, whose opendoors are stretching away in long ranges before theeyes of the wondering traveller, cannot reveal themystery of your doom ; your dry bones are gone ;

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i6s Petra—On the Road to the First High Placenear the Treasury Theatre—Fairy Dell and High Place 167 the robber has invaded your graves, and your veryashes have been swept away to make room for thewandering Arab of the desert. Again we passed into the defile whose rockybanks are strewn with the fragments of the ancientcity ; again we gazed upon the tiers of the rock cut-tings, the broken stairways, the ruin wrought bymasses shaken loose by the earthquake, until westood spellbound once more in front of the Treas-ury. Each visit seems to enhance its beauties,and deepen the charm of its silent glories — itspower was the same but changed, as seen at sun-rise, at sunset, in the shower, or in the blaze ofnoonday. None of the guide-books or records of formertravellers had spoken of a road leading up the fissureto the left of the Treasury. The dense growth ofoleander in the floor of the opening and the treesand bushes among the rocks hide one of the mostcharming bits in Petra, which we

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Year: 1887 (1880s)
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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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Association. The namesof the officers and committee were as follows: Mrs.Chester Butler, President; Mrs. Gr. M. Hollenback andMrs. E. Carey, Vice-presidents ; Mrs. Butler, Mrs. Nich-olson, Mrs. Hollenback, Mrs. Lewis, Mrs. Boss, Mrs.Cunningham, Mrs. Beaumont, Mrs. Drake, Mrs. Ben-net, Mrs. Carey, Executive Committee ; Miss Emily Cist,Treasurer ; Miss Gertrude Butler, Secretary; Mrs. Don-ley, Mrs. L. Butler, Corre-sponding Committee. The ladies solicited do-nations, held fairs, and, bydint of zeal and persever-ance, succeeded in raisingthe funds for the erectionot a monument at once ofthe patriotic deeds of theirfathers and of their ownpower. The monument isconstructed of granite, andis sixty-two and a half feetin height. On three mar-ble slabs are engraved thefoliowing inscriptions. On the front slab, composed by Edward Mallory,Esq., is the following: Near tliis spot was fought, on the afternoon of the 8d of July, 1778,the Battle of Wyoming, in -which a small band of patriotic Ameri-

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THE MONUMENT. 386 cans, chiefly the undisciplined, the youthful, and the aged, spared byinefficiency from the distant ranks of the Republic, led by ColonelZebulon Butler and Colonel Nathan Denison, with a courage thatdeserved success, boldly met and bravely fought a combined Brit-ish, Tory, and Indian force of thrice their number. Numerical su-periority alone gave success to the invader, and widespread havoc,desolation, and ruin marked his savage and bloody footsteps throughthe Valley. This monument, commemorative of these events, and in memoryof the actors in them, has been erected over the bones of the slain bytheir descendants and others, who gratefully appreciate the servicesand sacrifices of their jjatriotic ancestors. On the other slabs the following: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. Slain in the battle: Field-officers: Lieutenant Colonel GeorgeDorrance, Major John Garret. Captains: James Bidlack, Jun.,Aholiab Buck, Robert Durkee, Rezin Geer, Joseph Whittlesey, De-thic Hewi

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test the capabilities of the place. The dog dies in aminute and a half—a chicken instantly. As a general thing,strangers who crawl in there to sleep do not get up until theyare called. And then they dont either. The stranger thatventures to sleep there takes a permanent contract. I longedto see this grotto. I resolved to take a dog and hold him my-self; suffocate him a little, and time him ; suffocate him somemore and then finish him. We reached the grotto at aboutthree in the afternoon, and proceeded at once to make the(ixperiments. But now, an important difficulty presenteditself. We had no dog. ASCENT OF VESUVIUS—CONTINUED. At the Hermitage we were about fifteen or eighteen hun-dred feet above the sea, and thus far a portion of the ascenthad been pretty abrupt. For the next two miles the road wasa mixture—sometimes the ascent was abrupt and sometimes itwas not: but one characteristic it possessed all the time, with-out failure—without modification—it was all uncompromis-

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THE SUMMIT REACHED. 323 ingly and unspeakably infamous. It was a rough, narrowtrail, and led over an old lava flow—a black ocean wliicli wastumbled into a thousand fantastic shapes—a wild chaos ofruin, desolation, and barrenness—a wilderness of billowy up-heavals, of furious whirlpools, of miniature mountains rentasunder—of gnarled and knotted, wrinkled and twistedmasses of blackness that mimicked branching roots, greatvines, trunks of trees, all interlaced and mingled together:and all these weird shapes, all this turbulent panorama, allthis stormy, far-stretching waste of blackness, with its thrill-ing suggestiveness of life, of action, of boiling, surging,furious motion, was petrified !—all stricken dead and cold inthe instant of its maddest rioting !—fettered, paralyzed, andleft to glower at heaven in impotent rage for evermore! Finally we stood in a level, narrow valley (a valley that hadbeen created by the terrific march of some old time irruption)and on either hand t

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ty ofIsrael shall be sought for and there shall be none ;and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found,for I will pardon them whom I reserve. The strain of the writer rises into solemn raptureas Jerusalem is approached : What the feelings ofa traveller are, when among the mountains on whichthe awful power of the Almighty once visibly rested,and when approaching the city where he placed hisname, whence his Law was to go forth to all theworld, where the beauty of holiness shone in itsmorning splendor, and to which, even in its sorrowand captivity, even in its desolation, the very Gen-tiles, the people of all nations of the earth, as wellas its own children, look with profound awe and ad-miration,—oh, what the feelings of the traveller areon such a spot, and when listening to the enrapturedtones of Israels own inspired king, none can imaginebut those who have had the felicity to experiencethem ! They approach, probably, by the same placeScopus, whence Alexander saw in the distance

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2F6 THE STORY OF THE JEV/S. the vision of the Temple, and whence Titus caughtsight of the mighty ramparts which his army mustforce. Solemn as were the feelings excited by themelancholy desolateness of the rocky hills and val-leys through which we were passing, they were sud-denly lost in a sense of indescribable joy—for nowthe Holy City itself rose full into view, with all itscupolas and minarets reflecting the splendor of theheavens. Dismounting from our horses, we sat downand poured forth the sentiments which so stronglyanimated our hearts in devout praises to Him whosemercy and providence alone had thus brought us,in health and safety, to the city of our fathers.Passing on, the train encamps upon the Mount ofOlives, separated from the town by the narrowravine. The pure air of the Mount breathedaround us with the most refreshing fragrance ; andas we directed our attention to the surroundingview, Jerusalem was seen in its entire extent atour feet, the Valley of Jehoshaphat to our l

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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
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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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the top of thecliff, but in reality to explore beyond. Following a picturesque pathway which led roundthe edge of the precipice, we speedily reached theSheiks house. Here we refreshed ourselves withsome milk, and took a hasty glance down thesmiling hollow, and over the broken lower ranges tothe plains of Srarna and the broken range ofRahamna. We now bribed our guide to take us up theupper glen of the Tasimset stream. Leaving this,after a time we pushed our way up an uninhabitedand streamless valley, clothed with evergreen oak andadorned with buttercups and other flowers of familiaraspect. At length we were rewarded for our hard workby reaching the top of one of the mountain rangesat an elevation of over 6000 feet, and finding beforeus the finest view of the Atlas which we had yetobtained. We stood on the edge of a great limestone escarp-ment facing south, and forming a sheer precipiceseveral hundred feet deep, from the bottom of whichsloped away an exceedingly steep talus of debris to

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? iie%« T A SIM SET. 189 tlie bed of llio ANad Tossaout, two or tliree thousandfeet below. A short distance to the west of us lies the little vil-lage of Tafrint, its green terraces, small olive groves, andyellow patches of corn only serving to accentuate theoppressive air of desolation which broods over thescene. The river Tessaout, gathering tributary streamsfrom east and west, cuts its way by a deep gorgethrough the numerous escarped minor ranges whichrun parallel with the central axis, and southwardrise in ever-increasing magnitude till they sweep sky-ward in one grand culminatiug crest. The aspectof the limestone escarpments which crown the lowerranges, the bright colours of the red and purple shalesand sandstones which occupy the hollows, the deepgorge and radiating streams of the Tessaout, and thesnowy table-topped masses which dominate all, makeup a scene of the utmost impressiveness. That evening we spent pleasantly round the lantern,which did duty for the camp-fire, and h

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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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