 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 898 pages
...view. The waves were curling in the breeze, and their dark-green color showed it to be a body of deep water. For a long time we sat enjoying the view, for...waves was very grateful. It was set like a gem in (he mountains, which, from our position, seemed to enclose it almost entirely. At the western end it... | |
 | John Charles Frémont - America - 1840 - 290 pages
...view. The waves were curling in the breeze, and their dark-green color showed it to be a body of deep water. For a long time we sat enjoying the view, for...our position, seemed to enclose it almost entirely. At the western end it communicated with the line of basins we had left a few days since ; and on the... | |
 | John Charles Frémont - Astronomy - 1845 - 678 pages
...curling in the breeze, and their dark-green color showed it to be a body of deep water. For a long1 time we sat enjoying the view, for we had become fatigued...our position, seemed to enclose it almost entirely. At the western end it communicated with the line of basins we had left a few days since ; and on the... | |
 | John Charles Frémont - America - 1845 - 820 pages
...view. The waves were curling in the breeze, and their dark-green color showed it to be a body of deep water. For a long time we sat enjoying the view, for we had become ¡aiigucd with mountains, and the free expanse of moving waves was very grateful. It was set like a... | |
 | Geology - 1847 - 486 pages
...view. The waves were curling in the breeze, and their dark-green color showed it to be a body of deep water. For a long time we sat enjoying the view, for...our position, seemed to enclose it almost entirely. At the western end it communicated with the line of basins we had left a few days since ; ond on the... | |
 | John Charles Frémont - California - 1849 - 478 pages
...view. The waves were curling in the breeze, and their dark-green color showed it to be a body of deep water. For a long time we sat enjoying the view, for...our position, seemed to enclose it almost entirely. At the western end it communicated with the line of basins we had left a few days since ; and on the... | |
 | John Charles Frémont - Discoveries in geography - 1850 - 472 pages
...view. The waves were curling in the breeze, and their dark-green color showed it to be a body of deep water. For a long time we sat enjoying the view, for...was set like a gem in the mountains, which, from our posilion, seemed to enclose it almost entirely. At the western end it communicated with the line of... | |
 | John Charles Frémont - California - 1850 - 476 pages
...view. The waves were curling in the breeze, and their dark-green color showed it to be a body of deep water. For a long time we sat enjoying the view, for we had become fatigued witli mountains, and the free expanse of moving waves was very grateful. It was set like a gem in the... | |
 | John Charles Frémont - California - 1851 - 474 pages
...the breeze, and their dark-green color $ owed it to be a body of deep water. For a long time we sai enjoying the view, for we had become fatigued with...our position, seemed to enclose it almost entirely. At the western end it communicated with the line of basins we had left a few days since ; and on the... | |
 | English language - 1851 - 278 pages
...view. The waves were curling to the breeze, and their dark green colour showed it to be a body of deep water. For a long time we sat enjoying the view, for...expanse of moving waves was very grateful. It was like a gem in the mountains, which, from our position, seemed to enclose it almost entirely. At the... | |
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It broke upon our eyes like the ocean. The neighboring peaks rose high above us, and we ascended one of them to obtain a better view. The waves were curling in the breeze, and their dark-green color showed it to be a body of deep water. For a long time... 
