 | i.n. nicollet - 1843 - 186 pages
...of its undulations ; to reach a small plateau, (or, as the voyageurs call it, a prairie planc/te,) moving from wave to wave over alternate swells and...water, and other privations, remind one that life is a toil ; but these drawbacks are of short duration. There is almost always a breeze over them. The... | |
 | i.n. nicollet - 1843 - 186 pages
...impressions which their spectacle produces. Their sight never wearies. To look at a prairie up or down ; to ascend one of its undulations ; to reach a small...exhilarating sensations are all the time felt ; ennui is uever experienced. Doubtless there are moments when excessive heat, a want of fresh water, and other... | |
 | Mary Somerville - Biogeography - 1869 - 618 pages
...one of its undulations; to>reach a small plateau, or, (as the voyageurs call it, a prairie planché), moving from wave to wave over alternate swells and...reach the vast interminable low prairie that extends « [Notes on the North-West, or Valley of the Upper Mississippi. By WJA Bradford, New York, 1846.]... | |
 | Mary Somerville - Biogeography - 1854 - 596 pages
...one of its undulations; to reach a small plateau, or, (as the voyageurs call it, a prairie plancht), moving from wave to wave over alternate swells and...hours, days, or weeks, one never tires ; pleasurable aud exhilarating sensations are all the time felt; ennui h never experienced. Doubtless there are moments... | |
 | John Huston Finley - History - 1915 - 476 pages
...the spectacle of these prairies produces. Their sight never wearies. To look a prairie up or down, to ascend one of its undulations, to reach a small...water, and other privations remind one that life is a toil; but these drawbacks are of short duration. There are no concealed dangers — no difficulties... | |
 | John Huston Finley - History - 1915 - 460 pages
...the spectacle of these prairies produces. Their sight never wearies. To look a prairie up or down, to ascend one of its undulations, to reach a small...vast, interminable low prairie that extends itself in front—(be it for hours, days or weeks)—one never tires; pleasurable and exhilarating sensations... | |
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To look at a prairie up or down ; to ascend one of its undulations, to reach a small plateau, (or as the voyageurs call it, a "prairie planche,") moving from wave to wave over alternate swells and depressions; and finally to reach the vast interminable... 