The night was so cold that ice formed in our kettles, for our altitude in feet above sea was in the ten thousand still.
The pines were very tall and thick, interspersed with fir and balsam as well as with the usual accompaniment of high altitude in the West, the aspen.
We headed for the Pine Valley Mountains back of St. George and made about twenty miles with no snow after the first six, the altitude dropping to where the temperature was milder.
They had little trouble in doing this, and after a pleasant climb reached the top through a gulch at an altitude above the river of 3200 feet.
I remember climbing up at evening with one of my companions, to a high altitude where the silence was deathlike and overpowering.
I climbed out for bearings reaching an altitude a mile or so back from the river of 875 feet.
The cliffs had now reached an altitude of at least 2500 feet, and they appeared to be nearly perpendicular, but generally not from the water's edge where there was usually a bank of some kind or the foot of a steep talus.
They are very rare, and only found at a great altitude where no other game will live.
But the cold was too intense to allow us to do so, for I am convinced that at this great altitude the thermometer cannot have marked less than fourteen or fifteen degrees below freezing point.
They were now on an open table-land, whose altitudestill gave her a view of the sea by Endelstow.
On the brow of one hill, of rather greater altitude than its neighbour, stood the church which was to be the scene of his operations.
Our horned lark mounts upward on quivering wing in the true lark fashion, and, spread out against the sky at an altitude of two or three hundred feet, hovers and sings.
This carburetor is not affected by altitude to any appreciable extent.
Great changes of altitude also have a marked effect on the cooling system of an airplane.
The compensating nozzle construction is not influenced as much by changes of altitude as the simpler nozzle types are.
As the planet's altitudeat the time was not more than 14 deg.
Galle, this constellation might previously have reached an altitude of more than 10 deg.
Canopus, when on the meridian, had an altitude of about 9 deg.
From its roots, from the forward end of the deck, the red beam rises at a regular angle, diminishing in size with altitude till its end in comparison with the commencement may be called pointed, though in reality blunt.
While actually hovering, his altitude does not vary an inch.
This hawk has a light easy flight, usually maintaining an altitude a little lower than the tallest elms, but higher than most trees.
Neither altitude nor configuration means anything for cholera unless the ground itself be full of rotting filth.
At the end of the time we were within a mile of him, and only spoke in whispers, for at such an altitude sound travels far.
We trod our first snow at an altitude of about five thousand feet.
Temperature, correspondence of altitude and latitude as to, 145.
Chimborazo has nearly the same latitude and altitude as the loftiest peak in Africa, Kilima Njaro.
Imagine Vesuvius on the summit of Mont Blanc, and you have the altitude of Cotopaxi.
Below Jaen there are thirty cataracts and rapids; at the Pongo de Manseriche, at the altitude of 1164 feet (according to Humboldt), it bids adieu to mountain scenery.
As we had lowered our altitude since leaving Papallacta seven thousand feet, the climate was much warmer, and vegetation more prolific.
Ega is the half-way point across the continent, but its exact altitudeabove the sea is unknown.
At Bodegas travelers take to mules or horses for the mountains, hiring one set for Guaranda and another at that village for Quito; muleteers seldom allow their animals to pass from one altitude to the other.
There is not a highway for commerce in any direction, only a natural path (called by the innocent natives a road), which rises to the altitude of fourteen thousand feet, by which the beasts of burden pick their way over the Cordillera.
It does not grow at a higher altitude than 2000 feet.
We knew that Chimborazo was more than twice the altitude of Etna.
It's the equilibrium between altitude and latitude, showing what it can do, isn't it?
XVI On the Bridge All through July the growing heat of summer forced the people of the low country up into the mountains in search of an altitude where humidity is not a factor in the sum total of suffering.
As no automatically recording instruments were available, and Glaisher was unable to read the barometer at the highest point owing to loss of consciousness, the precise altitude can never be known, but it is estimated at about 7 m.
The vegetation is very much like that of southern Europe, but in consequence of the great humidity and the mild climate almost tropically luxuriant, and the forests from the shore of the sea up to an altitude of nearly 5000 ft.
Before they had reached an altitude of 600 feet they noticed a sensible diminution of the temperature; but neither cold nor fatigue deterred them, and they were resolved to persevere.
But his apprehensions were groundless; Gourbi Island was just as he had left it, with nothing unusual in its aspect, except that a very peculiar cloud was hovering over it, at an altitude of little more than a hundred feet.
But although this might get over the difficulty of the altered altitude of the sun and the absence of twilight, yet it would neither account for the sun setting in the east, nor for the length of the day being reduced to six hours.
The bird wheeled round and round in a few circles that widened in their diameter, and quickly sunk to an altitude in the comet's atmosphere much inferior to the balloon.
Almost the only exceptions are the early civilisations (Himyaritic) of Yemen (Arabia Felix) and Abyssinia, where the low latitude is neutralised by altitude and a copious rainfall.
He estimated their altitude at less than two thousand feet.
We have changed our climate for the last time to-day, and have reached that district where tobacco flourishes at an altitude of 4,000 feet above the sea.
I never so thoroughly realized before how climate is altered by altitude above the sea as in noticing the fruits and vegetables that were being sold at this little market, within fifteen or twenty miles of which they were all grown.
Evaporation is so rapid at this high altitude that if you wet the back of your hand it dries almost instantly, leaving a smart sensation of cold.
The change came just in time for me to secure a meridian altitude of Achernar, which, with a set of sights for time, completed the requisite observations.
He showed Humboldt to what extent astronomy would be useful to him, in his travels, in determining the position of places, the altitude of mountains, etc.
A great portion of Istria belongs to the Karst region, and is occupied by the so-called Istrian plateau, flanked on the north and east by high mountains, which attain in the Monte Maggiore an altitude of 4573 ft.
If we compare Coulter's Rocky Mountain Botany with Gray's Botany of the Northern (East) United States, we have two areas which differ chiefly in the points of altitude and atmospheric moisture.
The fact that the Toemoes Pass, on the direct route from Hungary through Transylvania to Bucharest, attains an altitude of 3370 ft.
With the release of the ballast the undamaged Zeppelin shot skywards until heraltitude was not less than ten thousand feet.
Like a lead-pencil the Zeppelin could now be distinguished as she rapidly advanced at an altitudeof about a thousand feet.
St. Petersburg; in general it varies with the longitude and altitudeof the locality).
