Old-world Questions and New-world AnswersK. Paul, Trench & Company, 1885 - 369 pages |
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... Mountains , and the cattle - ranches of their western flanks ; on the peaks and passes , or by the blue lakes of the Sierra Nevada ; in the cities of her silver kings , or among the wheat - fields of Central California and the orchards ...
... Mountains , and the cattle - ranches of their western flanks ; on the peaks and passes , or by the blue lakes of the Sierra Nevada ; in the cities of her silver kings , or among the wheat - fields of Central California and the orchards ...
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... mountain , desert , river , prairie , cultivation and forest . During all that time he passes rude camps , remote homesteads , farming villages , mushroom towns and settled cities , the homes of miners , ranchmen , pig and grain growers ...
... mountain , desert , river , prairie , cultivation and forest . During all that time he passes rude camps , remote homesteads , farming villages , mushroom towns and settled cities , the homes of miners , ranchmen , pig and grain growers ...
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... of the Sierras , indeed ; no stretch of sun - lit , sea - like plain ; no forest of giant pines ; no mountain mining - camp offers to the Englishman in America objects of such interest as may be found in AMERICANS AND AMERICANS .
... of the Sierras , indeed ; no stretch of sun - lit , sea - like plain ; no forest of giant pines ; no mountain mining - camp offers to the Englishman in America objects of such interest as may be found in AMERICANS AND AMERICANS .
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... mountains , the most casterly undulations of the Alleghany chain , which run almost north and south , and rise like waves of gradually increasing height from the Atlantic slope . The last stretches from the hills to the ocean , and is a ...
... mountains , the most casterly undulations of the Alleghany chain , which run almost north and south , and rise like waves of gradually increasing height from the Atlantic slope . The last stretches from the hills to the ocean , and is a ...
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... Mountain and Taconic ranges , before de- bouching into the Sound . Its tributary , the Naugatuck , runs almost parallel with the larger stream for the greater part of its course , and the banks of both rivers hum with the sounds of ...
... Mountain and Taconic ranges , before de- bouching into the Sound . Its tributary , the Naugatuck , runs almost parallel with the larger stream for the greater part of its course , and the banks of both rivers hum with the sounds of ...
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