 | John C. Van Tramp - Mississippi River Valley - 1870 - 806 pages
...draught. We had no thermometer to ascertain the temperature, but I could hold my hand in the water jost long enough to count two seconds. There are eight...discharging themselves by streams large enough to be called ruaa. A loud hollow noise was heard from the rock, which I supposed to be produced by the fall of water.... | |
 | E. E. Hale - 1882 - 310 pages
...eagerness, and he escaped the hot draught. We had no thermometer to ascertain the temperature, but I could hold my hand in the water just long enough...rock, which I supposed to be produced by the fall of the water. The strata immediately where they issue is a fine white and calcareous sandstone, covered... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - Discoveries in geography - 1883 - 308 pages
...eagerness, and he escaped the hot draught. We had no thermometer to ascertain the temperature, but I could hold my hand in the water just long enough...rock, which I supposed to be produced by the fall of the water. The strata immediately where they issue is a fine white and calcareous sandstone, covered... | |
 | John Charles Frémont - America - 1885 - 508 pages
...eagerness, and he escaped the hot draught. We had no thermometer to ascertain the temperature, but I could hold my hand in the water just long enough...covered with an incrustation of common salt. Leaving this Thermopylae of the we^t, in a short walk we reached the red ridge which has been described as... | |
 | Charles Alexander McMurry - Mississippi River Valley - 1894 - 184 pages
...and took a mouthful of almost boiling water. We had no thermometer to ascertain the temperature, but I could hold my hand in the water just long enough...by streams large enough to be called runs. A loud noise was heard from the rock, which I suppose to be produced by the fall of the water. After a short... | |
 | Graeme Mercer Adam - Lewis and Clark Expedition - 1905 - 380 pages
...eagerness, and he escaped the hot draught. We had no thermometer to ascertain the temperature, but I could hold my hand in the water just long enough...rock, which I supposed to be produced by the fall of the water. The strata immediately where they issue is a fine white and calcareous sandstone, covered... | |
 | Graeme Mercer Adam - Lewis and Clark Expedition - 1904 - 388 pages
...eagerness, and he escaped the hot draught. We had no thermometer to ascertain the temperature, but I could hold my hand in the water just long enough...rock, which I supposed to be produced by the fall of the water. The strata immediately where they issue is a fine white and calcareous sandstone, covered... | |
 | Charles Alexander McMurry - Explorers - 1904 - 288 pages
...and took a mouthful of almost boiling water. We had no thermometer to ascertain the temperature, but I could hold my hand in the water just long enough...by streams large enough to be called runs. A loud noise was heard from the rock, which I suppose to be produced by the fall of the water. After a short... | |
 | John C. Van Tramp - Mississippi River Valley - 1870 - 794 pages
...eagerness, and he escaped the hot draught. We had no thermometer to ascertain the temperature, but I could hold my hand in the water just long enough...strata immediately where they issue is a fine white calcareous sandstone, covered with an incrustation of common salt. Leaving this Thermopylae of the... | |
 | JERMIAH HUGHES - 1846 - 452 pages
...temperature, but I c<>uld hold my hand in the water just lung enough to count Iwo seconds. There are eighl or ten of these springs, discharging themselves by...be called runs. A loud hollow noise was heard from I the ro k, which I supposed lo be produced by the I fall of ihe water. The strala immerliat'-ly where... | |
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... water, he threw himself down for a hasty draught, and took a mouthful of water almost boiling hot. He said nothing to Benoist, who laid himself down to drink; but the steam from the water arrested his eagerness, and he escaped the hot draught. We... 
