 | 1811 - 450 lehte
...we believe has been hitherto unknown to this portion of the continent. s. On the ! 5th of November, at two o'clock in the afternoon, I thought i could...appeared like a small blue cloud ; viewed it with the spy glass, and w.,.s still more convinced in my conjecture, yet only communicated it to Doctor Robinson,... | |
 | James Florant Meline - 1867 - 338 lehte
...1805, 1806, 18U7. Philadelphia: CA Conrad: 1810. A very scarce and rare book. 3 See Appendix No. I. afternoon I thought I could distinguish a mountain...appeared like a small, blue cloud ; viewed it with a spy-glass, and was still more confirmed in my conjecture, yet only communicated it to Dr. Robinson,... | |
 | Samuel S. Wallihan - 1870 - 662 lehte
...mountains was obtained on the 15th of November, 1806. We quote from Maj. Pike's diary, of that date: ''At two o'clock in the afternoon, I thought I could...Robinson, who was in front with me; but in half an hour, they appeared in full view before us. When our small party arrived on the hill, they with one accord... | |
 | Kansas State Historical Society - 1902 - 632 lehte
...with the spy-glass, and was still more confirmed in my conjecture, yet only communicated it to Doctor Robinson, who was in front with me; but in half an hour they appeared in full view before us. When our small party arrived on the hill, they with one accord... | |
 | 1893 - 952 lehte
...Marched early. Passed two deep creeks, and many high points of rocks, also large herds of buffaloes. At two o'clock in the afternoon, I thought I could...communicated it to Dr. Robinson, who was in front of me; but in half an hour it appeared in full view before us. When our small party arrived on the... | |
 | Adolphus Washington Greely - 1893 - 396 lehte
...beyond imagination, as Pike thought. The 1 5th of November was a marked day, for Pike records that " at two o'clock in the afternoon I thought I could...our right, which appeared like a small blue cloud. ... In half an hour they appeared in full view before us. When our small party arrived on the hill... | |
 | Zebulon Montgomery Pike - 1895 - 514 lehte
...Pike 444 THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS SIGHTED. and many high points of rocks ; also, large herds of buffalo. At two o'clock in the afternoon I thought I could...appeared like a small blue cloud ; viewed it with the spy glass, and was still more confirmed in my conjecture, yet only communicated it to Dr. Robinson,... | |
 | Noble Lovely Prentis - 1899 - 386 lehte
...Sighted.— On the 15th of November, Pike saw something else. "At two o'clock in the afternoon," he writes, "I thought I could distinguish a mountain to our right,...which appeared like a small blue cloud; viewed it with a spy glass, and was still more confirmed in my conjecture, yet only communicated it to Dr. Pike's... | |
 | Ripley Hitchcock - 1904 - 424 lehte
...reached Pueblo, Pike made the discovery which has served in a sense as his monument. He writes : " I thought I could distinguish a mountain to our right...spyglass and was still more confirmed in my conjecture ; ... in half an hour they [the moun^ tains] appeared in full view before us. When our small party... | |
 | Walter Hines Page, Arthur W. Page - 1906 - 700 lehte
...afterward built, that Pike — now a captain — first saw the "Mexican Mountains." He says in his journal: "At two o'clock in the afternoon I thought I could...appeared like a small blue cloud; viewed it with the spy glass, and was still more confirmed in my conjecture, yet only communicated it to Dr. Robinson,... | |
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Robinson, who was in front with me; but in half an hour they appeared in full view before us. When our small party arrived on the hill they with one accord gave three cheers to the Mexican mountains. 
