 | Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, Nicholas Biddle - Columbia River - 1814 - 518 pages
...must have been terrible, since at its outlet there are vast columns of rock torn from the mountain which are strewed on both sides of the river, the trophies as it were of the victory. Several fine springs burst out from the chasms of the rock, and contribute to increase the river, which... | |
 | Meriwether Lewis, William Clark - Columbia River - 1815 - 466 pages
...must have been terrible, since at its outlet there are vast columns of rock torn from the mountain, which are strewed on both sides of the river, the trophies as it were of the victory. Several fine springs burst out from the chasms of the rock, and contribute to increase the river, which... | |
 | 1815 - 628 pages
...passage must have been terrible, since at Us outlet there are vast columns of rock torn from the mountain which are strewed on both sides of the river, the trophies as it were of the victory. Several fine springs bnrst out from the chasms of the rock, and contribute to increase the river, which... | |
 | 1815 - 554 pages
...must have been terrible, rince at its outlet there are vast columns of rock torn from the mountain which are strewed on both sides of the river, the trophies as it were of the victory. Several fme springs burst out from the chasms of the rock, and contribute to increase the river, which... | |
 | John Melish - North America - 1826 - 532 pages
...must have been terrible, since, at its outlet, there are vast columns of rock torn from the mountain, which are strewed on both sides of the river, the trophies as it were of the victory." The mountains at a distance appeared very lofty, and the tops were covered with snow on the 19th July,... | |
 | 1835 - 538 pages
...must have been terrible, since at its outlet there are vast columns of rock torn from the mountain, which are strewed on both sides of the river, the trophies, as it were, of the victory. Several fine springs burst out from the chasms of the rock, and contribute to increase the river, which... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Geography - 1841 - 516 pages
...must have been terrible, since at its outlet there are vast columns of rock torn from the mountain, which are strewed on both sides of the river, the trophies, as it were, of the victory ; " the length of this chasm, which the travelers called the Gates of the Rocky Mountains, is 5 miles.... | |
 | Meriwether Lewis - Columbia River - 1843 - 388 pages
...must have been terrible, since at its outlet there are vast columns of rock torn from the mountain, which are strewed on both sides of the river, the trophies, as it were, of its victory. Several fine springs burst out from the chasms of the rock, and contribute to increase... | |
 | Meriwether Lewis - Lewis and Clark Expedition - 1847 - 398 pages
...must have been terrible, since at its outlet there are vast columns of rock torn from the mountain, which are strewed on both sides of the river, the trophies, as it were, of its victory. SeTeral fine springs burst out from the chasms of the rock, and contribute to increase... | |
 | John Howard Hinton - United States - 1850 - 1008 pages
...must have been terrible, since at its outlet there are vast columns of rock torn from the mountain, which are strewed on both sides of the river, the trophies as it were of the victory. Several fine springs burst out from the chasms of the rock, and contribute to increase the river, which... | |
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... first three miles there is not a spot, except one of a few yards, in which a man could stand between the water and the towering perpendicular of the mountain ; the convulsion of the passage must have been terrible, since at its outlet there are vast... 
