 Then clouds arrange in strata across the canyon, with intervening vista views to cliffs and rocks beyond. The clouds are children of the heavens, and when they play among the rocks they lift them to the region above.  North America: The United States - Page 77by Samuel Edward Dawson, Henry Gannett - 1898Full view - About this book
 | America - 1875 - 472 pages
...into more distant gorges. Then, elouds, set in strata, across the canon, with intervening vista views, to cliffs and rocks beyond. The clouds are children...among the rocks, they lift them to the region above. It rains! llapidly little rills are formed above, and these soon grow into brooks, and the brooks grow... | |
 | Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden - West (U.S.) - 1880 - 604 pages
...when they play among the rocks they lift them to the region above " The varying depths of this caflon, due to the varying altitudes of the plateaus through...in the gloomy depths below, the difference between four thousand and six thousand feet is not discerned, but the characteristics of the cafion — the... | |
 | Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden, Alfred Richard Cecil Selwyn - Canada - 1883 - 758 pages
...points, and creep back again into more ilistant gorges. Then, clouds set in strata across the caflon, with intervening vista-views to cliffs and rocks beyond....be seen from above. As we wind about in the gloomy 'Ifpths below, the difference between 4000 and 6000 feet is not discerned, but the characteristics... | |
 | Friedrich von Hellwald - Canada - 1883 - 756 pages
...gorges. Then, clouds set in strata across the canon, with intervening vista-views to cliffs and locks beyond. The clouds are children of the heavens, and...altitudes of the plateaus through which it runs, can only !*• seen from above. As we wind about in the gloomy depths below, the difference between 4000 and... | |
 | Science - 1898 - 264 pages
...again into more distant gorges. Then clouds set in strata cross the caflon with intervening vista views to cliffs and rocks beyond. The clouds are children...among the rocks they lift them to the region above. It rains. Rapidly little rills are formed above and these soon grow into brooks, and the brooks grow... | |
 | George Iles - America - 1902 - 206 pages
...into more distant gorges. Then, clouds, set it strata across the canon, with intervening vista views, to cliffs and rocks beyond. The clouds are children...among the rocks they lift them to the region above. It rains ! Rapidly little rills are formed above, and these soon grow into brooks, and the brooks grow... | |
 | John Wesley Powell - Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) - 1915 - 332 pages
...into more distant gorges. Then, clouds, set in strata, across the canon, with intervening vista views, to cliffs and rocks beyond. The clouds are children...among the rocks, they lift them to the region above. It rains! Rapidly little rills are formed above, and these soon grow into brooks, and the brooks grow... | |
 | Lewis Ransome Freeman - Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) - 1923 - 550 pages
...canons, glide around points, and creep back again, into more distant gorges. . . . The clouds are the children of the heavens, and when they play among the rocks, they lift them to the region above." New oars were sawed out in the course of the hasty halt at the mouth of Bright Angel Creek, but for... | |
 | Will Christopher Wood, Alice Cecilia Cooper, Frederick A. Rice - American literature - 1925 - 368 pages
...into more distant gorges. Then clouds, set in strata, cross the canon, with intervening vista views, to cliffs and rocks beyond. The clouds are children...among the rocks, they lift them to the region above. It rains! Rapidly little rills are formed above, and these soon grow into brooks, and the brooks grow... | |
 | John Wesley Powell - Travel - 1961 - 454 pages
...arrange in strata across the canyon, with intervening vista views to cliffs and rocks beyond. The clonds are children of the heavens, and when they play among the rocks they lift them to the region above. It rains ! Eapidly little rills are formed above, and these soon grow into brooks, and the brooks grow... | |
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