 | Smithsonian Institution, John Wesley Powell, Almon Harris Thompson, Elliott Coues, George Brown Goode - Canyons - 1875 - 470 pages
...shall find water still standing in holes, and, at one time, I almost conclude to leave the river. But for years I have been contemplating this trip. To...exploration unfinished, to say that there is a part of the canon which I cannot explore, having already almost accomplished it, is more than I am willing to acknowledge,... | |
 | America - 1875 - 472 pages
...shall find water still standing in holes, and, at one time, I almost conclude to leave the river. But for years I have been contemplating this trip. To...exploration unfinished, to say that there is a part of the canon which I cannot explore, having already almost accomplished it, is more than I am willing to acknowledge,... | |
 | Science - 1882 - 904 pages
...passed a sleepless night, and expresses the result of his reflections in the following words : " But for years I have been contemplating this trip. To...exploration unfinished, to say that there is a part of the canon which I can not explore, having already almost accomplished it, is more than I am willing to... | |
 | George Iles - America - 1902 - 206 pages
...shall find water still standing in holes, and, at one time, I almost conclude to leave the river. But for years I have been contemplating this trip. To...exploration unfinished, to say that there is a part of the canon which I cannot explore, having already almost accomplished it, is more than I am willing to acknowledge,... | |
 | Lester Frank Ward - Cosmology - 1913 - 506 pages
...passed a sleepless night, and expresses the result of his reflections in the following words: "But for years I have been contemplating this trip. To...exploration unfinished, to say that there is a part of the canon which I can not explore, having already almost accomplished it, is more than I am willing to... | |
 | Lester Frank Ward - Cosmology - 1913 - 530 pages
...passed a sleepless night, and expresses the result of his reflections in the following words: "But for years I have been contemplating this trip. To...exploration unfinished, to say that there is a part of the canon which I can not explore, having already almost accomplished it, is more than I am willing to... | |
 | John Wesley Powell - Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) - 1915 - 332 pages
...shall find water still standing in holes, and, at one time, I almost conclude to leave the river. But for years I have been contemplating this trip. To...exploration unfinished, to say that there is a part of the canon which I cannot explore, having already almost accomplished it, is more than I am willing to acknowledge,... | |
 | United States. National Park Service - Grand Canyon National Park (Ariz.) - 1920 - 570 pages
...go no farther. "At one time," says Powell in his report, "I almost concluded to leave the river. But for years I have been contemplating this trip. To...to say that there is a part of the canyon which I can not explore, having already almost accomplished it, is more than I am willing to acknowledge, and... | |
 | Lewis Ransome Freeman - Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) - 1923 - 550 pages
...that we can get over the danger immediately before us; what there may be below I know not. . . . But for years I have been contemplating this trip. To...exploration unfinished, to say that there is a part of the canon which I cannot explore, having already almost accomplished it, is more than I am willing to acknowledge,... | |
 | Will Christopher Wood, Alice Cecilia Cooper, Frederick A. Rice - American literature - 1925 - 368 pages
...shall find water still standing in holes, and at one time I almost conclude to leave the river. But for years I have been contemplating this trip. To...exploration unfinished, to say that there is a part of the canon which I cannot explore, having already almost accomplished it, is more than I am willing to acknowledge,... | |
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True, the late rains have been favorable to us, should we go out, for the probabilities are that we shall find water still standing in holes; and at one time I almost conclude to leave the river. But for years I have been contemplating this trip. To leave... 
