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" Upon the foam of the cataract one point of the rock cast a cobalt-blue shadow. Where the river flowed around the western promontory, it was wholly in shadow, and of a deep sea-green. A scanty growth of coniferous trees fringed the brink of the lower cliffs,... "
Idaho Chronology, Nomenclature, Bibliography - Page 110
by John E. Rees - 1918 - 125 pages
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Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada

Clarence King - Sports & Recreation - 1872 - 342 pages
...river-stretches, reflecting, here and there, the intense solemnity of the cliffs, and in the centre a dazzling sheet of foam. In the early morning light,...its brilliancy, the rocks seem darker and more wild. The descent of four hundred feet from our stand-point to the level of the river above the falls, has...
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Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada

Clarence King - Mountaineering - 1872 - 312 pages
...of coniferous trees fringed the brink of the lower cliffs, overhanging the river. Dead barrenness'is the whole sentiment of the scene. The mere suggestion...its brilliancy, the rocks seem darker and more wild. The descent of four hundred feet, from our stand-point to the level of the river above the falls, has...
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Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada

Clarence King - Mountaineering - 1886 - 340 pages
...the rtver. Dead barrenness is the whole sentiment of tho seene. The mere suggestion of trees elinging here and there along the walls serves rather to heighten than to relieve the forbidding gloom of the plaee. Nor does tho Hashing whiteness, where the river tears itself among tho roeky islands, or rolls...
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Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada

Clarence King - Mountaineering - 1902 - 508 pages
...foam of the cataract one point of the rock cast a cobalt-blue shadow. Where the river flowed round the western promontory, it was wholly in shadow, and...its brilliancy, the rocks seem darker and more wild. The descent of four hundred feet from our standpoint to the level of the river above the falls has...
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Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada

Clarence King - Mountaineering - 1902 - 402 pages
...foam of the cataract one point of the rock cast a cobalt-blue shadow. Where the river flowed round the western promontory, it was wholly in shadow, and...than to relieve the forbidding gloom of the place. ISTor does the flashing whiteness, where the river tears itself among the rocky islands, or rolls in...
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The Empire of the West: (a Compilation)

John Brent - West (U.S.) - 1910 - 326 pages
...around the western promontory, it was wholly in shadow and of a deep sea-green. A scanty growth of trees fringed the brink of the lower cliffs overhanging...its brilliancy, the rocks seem darker and more wild. "The descent of 1,000 feet from our standpoint to the level of the river above the falls has to be...
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Thomas Moran

REV Nancy K Anderson, Acpe Supervisor, Nancy K. Anderson, Thomas Moran, Thomas P. Bruhn, Joni Kinsey, Anne Morand, National Gallery of Art (U.S.), Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art, Seattle Art Museum - Art - 1997 - 412 pages
...sea-green. A scanty growth of coniferous tree-- fringed the brink of the lower cuffs, overhanging the river The mere suggestion of trees clinging here and there...its brilliancy, the rocks seem darker and more wild. The descent of tour hundred feet, from our stand-point to the lev-el of the river above the falls,...
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