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Page 31
The mean level of the waters of the lake , according to the survey of Colonel
O. W. Childs , in 1851 , is 1071 feet , so that the river falls on an average a little
less than one foot per mile . The height of the lowest pass between the lake and
the ...
The mean level of the waters of the lake , according to the survey of Colonel
O. W. Childs , in 1851 , is 1071 feet , so that the river falls on an average a little
less than one foot per mile . The height of the lowest pass between the lake and
the ...
Page 128
Deep pot - holes , some of them ten feet deep , were worn into the trachyte rock ,
and sections of several were shown in the sides of the chasm , which could only
have been formed when the falls were many yards lower down . The trachyte is ...
Deep pot - holes , some of them ten feet deep , were worn into the trachyte rock ,
and sections of several were shown in the sides of the chasm , which could only
have been formed when the falls were many yards lower down . The trachyte is ...
Page 132
Most of the heaps were about twenty feet in diameter , and composed of stones of
the average size of a man's head ; but one , from the centre of which grew an
immense cotton - wood tree , was made of about a dozen very large stones ,
some ...
Most of the heaps were about twenty feet in diameter , and composed of stones of
the average size of a man's head ; but one , from the centre of which grew an
immense cotton - wood tree , was made of about a dozen very large stones ,
some ...
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Contents
CHAPTER I | 3 |
Commence journey up San Juan riverPalms and wild canes | 13 |
CHAPTER III | 27 |
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