 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1884 - 768 էջ
...Mountains, from an infinite number of chrystal stones of an amazing size, with which they are covered, and which, when the sun shines full upon them, sparkle so as to be seen at a very great distance.' Carver's Travels, 121. HIST. NW COABT, VOL. I. 39 which greet the weary traveller's... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1886 - 814 էջ
...Mountains, from an infinite number of chrystal stones of an amazing size, with whicli they are covered,, and which, when the sun shines full upon them, sparkle so as to be seen at & very great distance." (Jarver'j Travels, 121. HI«TNW COAST, VOL. I. 39 which greet the weary traveller's... | |
 | Josiah Dwight Whitney - 1889 - 496 էջ
...Mountains, from an infinite number of chrystal stones, of an amazing size, with which they are covered, and which, when the sun shines full upon them, sparkle so as to be seen at a very great distance." Carver seems to have been first to use the names " Shining Mountains " and <;... | |
 | Adolphus Washington Greely - 1893 - 396 էջ
...Mountains, from an infinite number of crystal stones of an amazing size with which they are covered and which, when the sun shines full upon them, sparkle so as to be seen at a very great distance." Carver's enthusiasm and interest in the West led him to make the following striking... | |
 | Sir Charles Prestwood Lucas - 1901 - 392 էջ
...Mountains from an infinite number of chrystal stones of amazing size with which they are covered, and which, when the sun shines full upon them, sparkle so as to be seen at a very great distance.' Morse's American Geography, 1"94shows the Rocky mountains on the map of America.... | |
 | Sir Charles Prestwood Lucas - 1901 - 400 էջ
...Mountains from an infinite number of chrystal stones of amazing size with which they are covered, and which, when the sun shines full upon them, sparkle so as to be seen at a very great distance.' Morse's American Geography, 1794, shows the Rocky mountains on the map of America.... | |
 | Harold Wellman Fairbanks - 1906 - 602 էջ
...Mountains from an infinite number of crystal stones of an amazing size with which they are covered, and which, when the sun shines full upon them, sparkle so as to be seen at a very great distance." The plateaus and plains of the inter-mountain region are difficult to pass, on... | |
 | George Bird Grinnell - 1911 - 516 էջ
...Mountains, from an infinite number of crystal stones, of an amazing size, with which they are covered, and which, when the sun shines full upon them, sparkle so as to be seen at a very great distance. "This extraordinary range of mountains is calculated to be more than three thousand... | |
 | John Thomson Faris - 1920 - 440 էջ
...sun shines upon them, sparkle so as to be seen for a great distance. The same early travelers give it as their opinion that in future these mountains...would be found to contain more riches than those of Hindustan and Malabar, or the golden coast of Guinea, or the Mines of Peru. Yet it was not until 1858... | |
 | Charles Henry Carey - 1922 - 1032 էջ
...Mountains, from an infinite number of chrystal stones, of an amazing size, with which they are covered, and which, when the sun shines full upon them, sparkle so as to be seen at a very great distance, * * * . Probably in future ages they may be found to contain more riches in their... | |
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Shining mountains, from an infinite number of crystal stones of an amazing size with which they are covered, and which, when the sun shines full upon them, sparkle so as to be seen at a great distance. 
