 | Clarence King - Sports & Recreation - 1872 - 310 pages
...eastern slope, a defiant wall of rock plunging abruptly down to the plain ; the western, a long, grand sweep, well watered and overgrown with cool, stately...after the sun has set for all the rest of America. The Sierras have a structure and a physical character which are individual and unique. To Professor... | |
 | Clarence King - Sports & Recreation - 1872 - 342 pages
...plunging abruptly down to the plain ; the western, a long, grand sweep, well watered and overgrown witk cool, stately forests ; its crest a line of sharp,...after the sun has set for all the rest of America. The Sierras have a structure and a physical character which are individual and unique. To Professor... | |
 | Daniel Pidgeon - Voyages around the world - 1882 - 368 pages
...its eastern slope is a defiant wall, plunging abruptly down to the plain; the western, a long grand sweep, well watered, and overgrown with cool stately...snowy peaks, springing into the sky and catching the 'Alpen glow' long after the sun has set for the rest of America. For four hundred miles the Sierras... | |
 | American literature - 1903 - 462 pages
...eastern slope, a defiant wall of rock plunging abruptly down to the plain; the western, a long, grand sweep, well watered and overgrown with cool, stately...after the sun has set for all the rest of America." Every word is carefully chosen to tell the truth and clarify the impression. This is the style of a... | |
 | American essays - 1871 - 856 pages
...eastern slope, a defiant wall of rock plunging abruptly down to the plain ; the western, a long, grand sweep, well watered and overgrown with cool, stately...after the sun has set for all the rest of America. The Sierras have a structure and a physical character which are individual and unique. To Professor... | |
 | American essays - 1871 - 818 pages
...eastern slope, a defiant wall of rock plunging abruptly down to the plain ; the western, a long, grand sweep, well watered and overgrown with cool, stately...snowy peaks springing into the sky and catching the alpengloiv long after the sun has set for all the rest of America. The Sierras have a structure and... | |
 | Robert Finch, John Elder - Nature - 1990 - 930 pages
...eastern slope, a defiant wall of rock plunging abruptly down to the plain; the western, a long, grand sweep, well watered and overgrown with cool, stately...after the sun has set for all the rest of America. The Sierras have a structure and a physical character which are individual and unique. To Professor... | |
 | Paul Richins - Sports & Recreation - 1999 - 246 pages
...eastern slope, a defiant wall of rock plunging abruptly down to the plain; the western, a long, grand sweep, well watered and overgrown with cool, stately...after the sun has set for all the rest of America. HOW TO USE THIS BOOK This guide includes fifty of the best snowboard and ski summit descents in California... | |
 | Robert Finch, John Elder - Fiction - 2002 - 1160 pages
...Osgood. slope, a defiant wall of rock plunging abruptly down to the plain; the western, a long, grand sweep, well watered and overgrown with cool, stately...after the sun has set for all the rest of America. The Sierras have a structure and a physical character which are individual and unique. To Professor... | |
 | Susan M. Neider - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 318 pages
...defiant wall of rock plunging abruptly down to the plain; the western, a long, grand sweep, well-watered and overgrown with cool, stately forests; its crest,...after the sun has set for all the rest of America. The ancient history of the Sierras goes back to a period when the Atlantic and Pacific were one ocean,... | |
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... ranges is the Sierra Nevada* a long and massive uplift lying between the arid deserts of the Great Basin and the Californian exuberance of grain-field and orchard ; its eastern slope, a defiant wall of rock plunging abruptly down to the plain ; the... 