 | John C. Van Tramp - Mississippi River Valley - 1867 - 814 pages
...degree of loudness, but was not in th» east prolonged, expiring almost instantaneously. Having now made what observations our means afforded, we proceeded...peak of the Rocky Mountains, and looked down upon the SDU* a thousand feet below ; and, standing where never human foot had stood before, felt the exultation... | |
 | John C. Van Tramp - Mississippi River Valley - 1870 - 806 pages
...degree of l9udness, but was not in th« east prolonged, expiring almost instantaneously. Having now made what observations our means afforded, we proceeded...loftiest peak of the Rocky Mountains, and looked down npon the SDOW a thousand feet below ; and, standing where never human foot had stood before, felt the... | |
 | 1872 - 464 pages
...the platforms from Maine to California. Let me quote his own words : " We had accomplished," he says, "an object of laudable ambition, and beyond the strict...instructions. We had climbed the loftiest peak of the Rocky Mountain, and looked down upon the snow a thousand feet below ; and, standing where never human foot... | |
 | American Geographical Society of New York - Electronic journals - 1873 - 464 pages
...the platforms from Maine to California. Let me quote his own words : " We had accomplished," he says, "an object of laudable ambition, and beyond the strict...instructions. We had climbed the loftiest peak of the Rocky Mountain, and looked down upon the snow a thousand feet below ; and, standing where never human foot... | |
 | Charles Richard Tuttle - Indians of North America - 1874 - 638 pages
...object of laudable ambition, and, indeed, beyond the strict order of his instruction. He had climbed to the loftiest peak of the Rocky Mountains, and looked down upon the enow a thousand feet below, and, standing where never human foot had stood before, justly felt the... | |
 | Discoveries in geography - 1888 - 504 pages
...degree of loudness, bu: wa3 not in the least prolonged, expiring almost instant;i neously. Having now made what observations our means afforded, we proceeded...standing where never human foot had stood before, fell the exultation of first explorers. It was about two o'clock when we left the summit, and when... | |
 | Edward Sylvester Ellis - Biography & Autobiography - 1889 - 278 pages
...degree of loudness, but was not in the least prolonged, expiring almost instantaneously. Having now made what observations our means afforded, we proceeded...the snow a thousand feet below, and, standing where human foot had never stood before, felt the exultation of first explorers. It was about two o'clock... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1891 - 924 pages
...was not in the least prolonged, expiring almost instantaneously. Having now made what ooservations our means afforded, we proceeded to descend. We had...ambition, and beyond the strict order of our instructions. Wo had climbed the loftiest peak of the Rocky mountains, and looked down upon the snow a thousand feet... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1891 - 960 pages
...instantaneously. Having now mude what observations our means afforded, we proceeded to descend. Wo hud accomplished an object of laudable ambition, and beyond...instructions. We had climbed the loftiest peak of the Roeky mountains, and looked down upon the snow a thousand toot below ; and, standing where never human... | |
 | Edward Sylvester Ellis - Frontier and pioneer life - 1895 - 276 pages
...degree of loudness, but was not in the least prolonged, expiring almost instantaneously. Having now made what observations our means afforded, we proceeded to descend. We had accom plished an object of laudable ambition, and beyond the strict order of our instructions. We had... | |
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Having now made what observations our means afforded, we proceeded to descend. We had accomplished an object of laudable ambition, and beyond the strict order of our instructions. We had climbed the loftiest peak of the Rocky mountains, and looked down... 
