Standing at its mouth, look up its sparkling stream to its source, — a silver cascade which falls all the way from the White Mountains to the sea, — and behold a city on each successive plateau, a busy colony of human beaver around every fall. King's Handbook of the United States - Page 542by Moses Foster Sweetser - 1892 - 939 pagesFull view - About this book
| Henry David Thoreau - Concord River - 1873 - 430 pages
...privileges in vain for ages, until at last the Yankee race came to improve them. Standing at its mouth, look up its sparkling stream to its source, — a silver...on each successive plateau, a busy colony of human beaver around every fall. Not to mention Newburyport and Haverhill, see Lawrence, and Lowell, and Nashua,... | |
| White mountains, Moses Foster Sweetser - White Mountains (N.H. and Me.) - 1876 - 524 pages
...meets the sea is " Plum Island, its sand ridges scalloping along the horizon tike the sea-serpent, and the distant outline broken by many a tall ship,...silver cascade which falls all the way from the White Mtn. to the sea, — and behold a city on each successive plateau, a busy colony of human beavers around... | |
| Moses Foster Sweetser - Maine - 1876 - 526 pages
...meets the sea is " Plum Island, its sand ridges scalloping along the horizon like the sea-serpent, and the .distant outline broken by many a tall ship,...silver cascade which falls all the way from the White Mts. to the sea, — and behold a city on each successive plateau, a busy colony of human beavers around... | |
| Moses Foster Sweetser - Panoramas - 1882 - 524 pages
...horizon like the sea-serpent, and the distant outline broken by many a tall ship, leaning, 3£il/, against the sky Standing at its mouth, looking up...silver cascade which falls all the way from the White Mta. to the sea, — and behold a city on each successive plateau, a busy colony of human beavers around... | |
| Moses Foster Sweetser - Maine - 1886 - 526 pages
...meets the sea to " Plum Island, its sand1 ridges- scalloping along the horizon like the sea-serpent, and the distant outline broken by many a tall ship,...silver cascade which falls all the way from the White Mis. to the sea, — and behold a city on each successive plateau, a busy colony of human beavers around... | |
| Henry Stephens Salt - Authors, American - 1890 - 336 pages
...rowed up the stream of the Merrimac, which, by comparison with that which they had left, seemed like " a silver cascade which falls all the way from the White Mountains to the sea," until they arrived within a few miles of the New Hampshire capital, which bears the same name as their... | |
| Moses Foster Sweetser - Maine - 1891 - 538 pages
...tht horizon like the sea-serpent, and the distant outline broken by many a tall ship, leaning, s*iW, against the sky Standing at its mouth, looking up...silver cascade which falls all the way from the White Mts. to the sea, — and behold a city on each successive plateau, a busy colony of human beavers around... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 560 pages
...privileges in vain for ages, until at last the Yankee race came to improve them. Standing at its mouth, look up its sparkling stream to its source, — a silver...on each successive plateau, a busy colony of human beaver around every fall. Not to mention Newburyport and Haverhill, see Lawrence, and Lowell, and Nashua,... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 562 pages
...privileges in vain for ages, until at last the Yankee race came to improve them. Standing at its mouth, look up its sparkling stream to its source, — a silver...on each successive plateau, a busy colony of human beaver around every fall. Not to mention Newburyport and Haverhill, see Lawrence, and Lowell, and Nashua,... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 560 pages
...privileges in vain for ages, until at last the Yankee race came to improve them. Standing at its mouth, look up its sparkling stream to its source, — a silver...a city on each successive plateau, a. busy colony 4jf human beaver around every fall. Not to mention .Newburyport and Haverhill, see Lawrence, and Lowell,... | |
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