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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)
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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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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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.Then you descend toward the fertile valley of the SaltLake in Utah. The Mormons have been described adnauseam, and there is nothing new to be looked for intheir midst; they are ancient history. By a new law ofthe United States, polygamy is no longer tolerated, and JOHN BULL & CO. 35 if Artemus Ward were now alive, and about to giveone of his delightfully humorous talks there, he couldno longer put on the complimentary ticket given tosome Mormon to whom he wished to show a politeness, Admit bearerand one wife.In Salt LakeCity you arestruck by thecleanliness, thequietness, andthe general airof prosperity ofthe place. TheMormons aremeek-voicedand mild-man-nered, as onewould expect inthe descendantsof an oppressedsect. Attend-ants are politeand altogethera great contrastto the same classo f persons o nthe other side ofthe Rockies. The Mormons continue to believe andcall themselves Saints. This is a harmless mania thathurts nobody. Before eettins; into California there remains but the

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TEMPLE SQUARE, SALT LAKE CTrY. 36 JOHN BULL & CO. State of Nevada to cross, a sandy, arid land, which formsa curious contrast with the fertile Salt Lake valley andthe luxuriant plains of California between which it lies.Some Indians, majestically draped in blankets and withfeathers in their hair, a few cowboys with sombrerosstuck on the back of the head give a touch of the pic-turesque to this scene of desolation, a scene almostgrandiose in its dreariness. After the sandy desert istraversed, the ground begins to rise once more, natureshows signs of life again, and presently you are in theSierras, which to my thinking are still more picturesqueand much grander than the Rockies. The RockyMountains are certainly mountainous and undeniablyrocky, but the landscape has not the majesty of theSierras. The Rocky Mountains are wild and arid ; theSierras are luxuriant with verdure. You are nearingthe home of perpetual spring. All is gay and smiling:the blue sky, the slopes of the mountains c

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d that the few that remained hadtaken refuge in the wooded districts on the Siberianside. We also saw a great number of sheep horns inthe bed of the stream, whose owners had probablybeen killed by wolves, or had been starved to deathby severe winters and heavy snowfalls. The countrybore altogether a touch of wildness and desolation.Towards noon we were caught in a dreadful hail-storm, and returned to camp at 3 p.m. with mywell – deserved trophy. I found Littledale in lowspirits ; his hunters had taken him by mistake tomy ground, and he had convinced himself of theerror by discovering our party as we were enteringthe Happy Valley. That evening Vassili, the cook, produced fordinner roast fillet of kotc/ikor, which we found A FRESH START 117 excellent. As for the broth, it was quite good, andhenceforward replaced Maggis cousommd, which wehad been constantly using. Later on in the season,when the animals became fatter, we had to abandontheir meat, owing to their strong sheepy flavour, for

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RETURNING TO CAMP. that of their domestic kinsmen, where stray Kirghizprocured us the latter. On the following morning,June 21st, the wind had not abated, and it was nottill 7 a.m. that we left camp. This time Littledalewent towards my old nullah where I had twice beensuccessful. As for myself, I started with Taba inthe direction of the valley westwards. It was n8 AFTER WILD SHEEP IN THE ALTAI certainly not a promising day, and we rode a longway without even expecting to see anything. Thevalley was a wider one than that of Bain-Tchagan,with more overhanging crags on either side andno nice boulders with fresh grass between. At thebottom flowed a small, nameless stream, forminghere and there small lakes and swamps. We spiedan immense side-corry to our left, but saw nothingbut rocks and snow. A little further I discovereda herd of female Ibex on the opposite side, probablythe same which Littledale had seen two days pre-viously, but no signs of males ; in fact, the placedid not in the lea

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e pursued his way.A country once very populous was nearly deserted on account of con-tinuous raids by slave hunters. A hippopotamus was shot, and, at the end of three days, it floated.As the boat was towing it, immense numbers of crocodiles followed, andit was necessary to fire at them to keep them off. It is said that thecrocodile never eats fresh meat; indeed, the more putrid it becomes, thebetter he enjoys his repast, as he can thus tear the carcass more easily.The corpse of a boy was seen floating by. Several crocodiles dashed atit, fighting for their prey, and in a few seconds it disappeared. Sixty-seven of the repulsive reptiles were seen on one bank. The natives eatthe animal, but few who had witnessed the horrible food on which theybanquet would willingly feed on their flesh. Their former companion, Mr. Thornton, here rejoined them. Hearingthat the remaining members of the bishops party were in want at Chi-bisa, he volunteered to carry over a supply of goats and sheep to them.

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(215) 216 WONDERS OF THE TROPICS. Overcome by the fatigues of the journey, he was attacked by fever, whichterminated fatally in April, 1863. The whole of the once pleasant Shire valley was now a scene of wide-spread desolation. Fearful famine had devastated it, and the sights whichmet their eye in every direction were heart-rending. The ground wasliterally covered with human bones. Many had ended their career underthe shade of trees, others under projecting crags of the hills, whileothers lay in their huts with closed doors, which, when opened, disclosedthe mouldering corpse with a few rags round the loins, the skull fallen off the pillow; the little skeleton of a child that had perished first, was rolledup in a mat between two large skeletons. Transporting the Boat Overland. Hoping that the Lady Nyassa might be the means of affordingrelief to sufferers across the lake, they hurried on with their work. Shewas unscrewed at a spot about five hundred yards below the first cataract,and th

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became clothed with an uncannyvagueness of aspect. Their twisted, spikedlimbs took on the shapes of men who werecrawling over the sand, or crouching in wait,or gesturing either in threat or appeal. Allsense of proportion had vanished with thedaylight. Ones eyes were no longer tobe relied upon. A low-hung star, barelyveiled behind the ragged crest of a moun-tain wash, cast an upward reflectionwhich so well mimicked the glow of a dis-tant camp fire that a lost tenderfoot wouldhave struggled toward it, believing helpwas near. Long after midnight we came to whis-pering trees around a spring, the first oasisin twenty hours of travel from Bullfrog,and as grateful a resting place as ever theschool-day geographies pictured of a palm-fringed well in the Sahara. Water haddone a miracle here, and when we pushedon at daylight after a few hours sleepin a tent, green fields and pastured cat-tle were glimpsed, and the growing cropsthat sweetly contrasted with the desolation 44° The Outing Magazine

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round about.The rancher whomade breakfastfor the stage crewhad lived in thisplace for manyyears, and bychoice, for he saidin parting: I went backto my old homein Vermont lastyear, and 1 didnthanker to staythere. Thisplace lookedgood to me whenI drovein again. Almost all thatday the road ledacross the desert,until in the wan-ing afternoon wewere within sightof the town ofLas Vegas, whichcame suddenlyinto being lastyear when thenew railroadto Salt Lakemarched throughthis region. Atone end of thenew town, in a grove of splendid trees,are the adobe walls of a ranch and fortbuilt by the Mormon pioneers when theypushed through Utah to Lower Californiain 1851. We had crossed their old trailon the previous day, and the road theymade is still used to pass through theMeadow Valley Wash, where a party ofscores of men, women and children per-ished together in that first heroic pilgrim-age. A stone marks the place where theirbones were found. Over this route they pushed southwarduntil they came to

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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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and slow-worms, whichare more easily overtaken and caught.After feeding it will sit motionless for hourson some jutting crag in the face of a cliff,or on the branch of a tree. When on thewing it has a habit of sailing round andround in majestic circles, at a great height,and uttering its plaintive catlike mewingcry. It makes its nest of sticks and twigs,frequently lining it with green leaves, or bitsof wool The structure is placed in the forkor on the horizontal branch of a tree andsometimes on a ledge in the face of a cliff.Occasionally the old nest of a carrion crowis utilised. The eggs number from two to fourand are variable in colour. Some speci-mens are dingy white and without spots,whilst others are greenish or bluish white,spotted, blotched and streaked with reddishbrown. The chicks are covered with beautifulwhite down when hatched. They leave thenest before they can fly very far, and evenw^hen they are strong on the wing follow theirparents about for some time after fledging.

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BLACK-HEADED GULLS. The Black-headed Gull THIS is perhaps the best known of allour sea-gulls. The facts that it nearlyalways breeds inland, and visits our harboursand tidal rivers in great numbers during thewinter months, give nearly everybody anample opportunity of studying it duringsome periods of the year. In the severewinter of 1895 numbers of these birds foundtheir way up the river Thames into the veryheart of London, and were so well treated byinterested spectators, who fed them uponscraps of fish, shrimps, biscuits, and bits ofbread and cheese, that they have visitedthe metropolis regularly ever since. The black or, to be more accurate, darkbrown hood from which the bird has receivedits common name, is only a breeding seasondecoration. In the winter the head is white,except for a tinge of grey at the back anda darkish grey patch behind the feathers that cover the ear. 119 120 Baby Birds at Home Throughout the greater part of the yearthe Black-headed Gull feeds upon worms,slugs,

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ng stretch ofbirch wood extending the whole way along the hill-side. Afterleaving the loch the river runs through a most uninterestingcountry, mostly arable, though some of the best early springpools are situated here, past the Brora coal pit, and enters the seaat the little fishing village of Brora. Nearly the whole of theriver below the loch runs over a stony or gravelly bottom, andaffords good spawning ground for the salmon. There are no hills of any great height or importance in thisarea, with the exception of Ben Armine, with its two not verydistinct hills—Creasj Mhor and Creag Beof. It is a green hill, andthe whole of it is under deer. Eagles and Peregrines breed thereregularly and are fortunately preserved. Above Gordonbush thepeculiar conical hill of Beinn Smeoral rises (1667 feet), and alittle to the east is Kollieben, cold and damp on the north-east,drier and with rocky terraces on its south-western side. This latter ^ Since much damaged by the gale on November 18th, 1894.

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•{ 1 A i i S i1 J PHYSICAL FEATURES. 31 hill is the source of Clynemiltoii burn, worthy of mention hereas a stream of most beautiful spring water, not a common thing onthe east coast of Sutherland. Between the Brora and Helmsdale there is the small river ofLothbeg, which rises in the Meallan-liath, and runs throughSletal and Glen Loth into the sea by an artificial cutting on thesouth side of Crackaig Point. This little river runs through thewildest and finest scenery on the coast. Sletal was an ancientdeer forest, and the cairn under Craig-vockie was tlie last strong-hold of the wolf in Scotland. It is a wild confused mass of rocks,many of them now overgrown with moss and blaeberries, and yearsago the rock above was tenanted by a pair of eagles; even yet,these birds are occasionally seen in the autumn, and though nolonger a forest, a few deer are still to be seen in their ancientsanctuary. Lower down where Sletal joins Glen Loth, the strathopens out wider and is more bright and sunn

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Image from page 46 of “The American angler” (1895) Image by Internet Archive Book Images Identifier: americanangler251895harr Title: The American angler Year: 1895 (1890s) Authors: Harris, William Charles, 1830-1905, ed Subjects: Fishing Publisher: New York : [The Angler’s Publishing Company] Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, …

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Title: The American angler
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Harris, William Charles, 1830-1905, ed
Subjects: Fishing
Publisher: New York : [The Angler’s Publishing Company]
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
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N. Y.. for trout and pickerel. Chemung, N. Y., for black bass. Deposit, N. Y., for black bass and trout early In the season. Greenwood Lake, N. Y., for black bass and pickerel. Hawley, N. Y., for black bass, trout, perch and pickerel. Highland Mills, N. Y., for black bass, trout, jierch andpickerel. Jamestown, N. Y.. for mascalonge, black bass, pickerel, etc. Lordville, N. Y., for trout and black bass. Glean, N. Y., for black bass and perch. Otisville, N. Y.. foi black bass, pickerel and trout. Port Jervis, N. Y.. for black bass and tror.t. Spring Water, N. Y., for black bass and trout. Woodbury. N. Y., for pickerel and i>erch. PenidfS the above there are several hundred other poir.ttin New York and Pennsylvania reached liy the Eno whereexcellent fishing and shooting may be had. Kxpress trains leave Chambers St. daily at 9 A. M., .S P. M.,Z.m P. M. and 8.3U P. M. Send for time tables and all otbddesired information to D. Z. SOBEBTS, General Passenger Agent, 21 Cortlandt St., N. Y.

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THEWABASH BANNER ROUTE from and to Chicago, NewYork, Kansas City, St. Paul, Denver, St.Louis, Boston, Omaha, Des Moines, SanFrancisco. BANNER EQUIPMENT of Vestibuled Trains,with Pullman and Wagner Bufiet and Com-partment Sleeping Cars, Palace Parlor Cars,Banner Dining Cars, Keclining Chair Cars. See that your Tickets Read via The Wabash Line. CHAS. M. HAYS, Vice-Prest and Genl Mgr.C. S. CRANE, Genl Passr and Ticket kgX. THE GREAT TRUNK LINE SOUTH SOUTHERN RfllLWfty Piedmont Air Line VIA Washington, Danville and Atlanta Perfection of Service. Highest Standard of Railway Travel between the NORTH AND SOUTH The only line south of the Potomac River operating-solid Pullinan Vestibuled Trains. Ao Extra Fare.Departure from New York (Pennsylvania R. R.)4:30 P. M.The Washington and Southwestern VestibuledLimitedevery day in the year.Solid train comp sed of Pullman Drawing-room.Sleeping CarsNew York to Ni:w OrleansDining car service south of WashingtonThis train is compos d of Pullman Drawing-Ro

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Image from page 120 of “Illustrations of the conchology of Great Britain and Ireland” (1827) – The Great Fish River Museum

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Title: Illustrations of the conchology of Great Britain and Ireland
Year: 1827 (1820s)
Authors: Brown, Thomas, 1785-1862
Subjects: Mollusks
Publisher: Edinburgh : W.H. Lizars and D. Lizars London : S. Highley
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hy taf<^Bra\ £tUfravMtl by WJlJAxajs E-lini,,r„U PLATE XXVI. Fig. 1. UNIO ELONGATE. Unio elongata, Lam. Si/st. vi. partie 1, p. 70- Mya margaritifera, Mont. Test. Brit. p. 33.—Brown in Ency. Brit. vi. p. 405. This shell yields mother-of-pearl, and produces pearls, sometimes of considerable size and value. The river Con-way, in Wales, was formerly famous on account of the large and valuable pearls produced by the Unio elongatainhabiting it: as was also the river Irt in Cumberland, so much so, that we are informed by Camden that SirJohn Hawkins obtained a patent for fishing them in that river. In the Scottish rivers this shell is still occasion-ally fished for the sake of the included pearls; and it is said that the pearls which decorate the Scottish crownare native ones, and chiefly from the river Tay. For an account of the Formation of Pearls, see Encyclopedia Britannica, Vol. VI. Article Conchology, page 481. Fig. 2. UNIO piCTOKUM. Unio pictorum, Browns MSS. Mya pictorum, Mon

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