They nestle in rocky nooks and hollows about all the high peaks and in the larger cations, reflecting their stern, rugged beauty and giving charming animation to the bleakest and most forbidding landscapes. From the summit of Red Mountain, a day's journey... Sierra Club Bulletin - Página 1221901Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
| 1879 - 1036 páginas
...lakes. It lies just beyond the northern limit of the true Alps, between the main axis of the range and a spur that puts out on the east side from near the head of the Carson. Its forested shores go curving in and out around many an emerald bay and pine-crowned promontory, and... | |
| John Muir - 1894 - 408 páginas
...depth, is the largest of all the Sierra lakes. It lies just beyond the northern limit of the higher portion of the range between the main axis and a spur...east side from near the head of the Carson River. Its forested shores go curving in and out around many an emerald bay and pine-crowned promontory, and... | |
| Sierra Club - 1900 - 466 páginas
...with fruit. They nestle in rocky nooks and hollows about all the high peaks and in the larger cations, reflecting their stern, rugged beauty and giving charming...deep, its basin was once occupied by a glacier which filled it from the bottom to a point high above the present water-level, and being lavishly fed by... | |
| John William Harshberger - 1911 - 912 páginas
...depth, is the largest of all the sierra lakes. It lies just beyond the northern limit of the higher portion of the range between the main axis and a spur...east side from near the head of the Carson River. Donner Lake, three miles long lies about ten miles to the north of Tahoe, and a few miles farther north... | |
| John Muir - 1917 - 354 páginas
...depth, is the largest of all the Sierra lakes. It lies just beyond the northern limit of the higher portion of the range between the main axis and a spur...east side from near the head of the Carson River. Its forested shores go curving in and out around many an emerald bay and pinecrowned promontory, and... | |
| Sierra Club - 1901 - 448 páginas
...from drifting to any great extent by the shelter of the woods. Every tree is loaded with the feiry bloom, bending down the branches, and hushing the...deep, its basin was once occupied by a glacier which filled it from the bottom to a point high above the present water-level, and] being lavishly fed by... | |
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