They used to say in the early days when the stories of the incredible richness of Eldorado’s gold lined bedrock were told on the “outside,” that when a man in Alaska drank the water of the country, the truth left him.
How can a man who puts faith in such visionary matters understand one who builds on the eternal and immovable bedrock of literature and art?
The railroad was to get a dandy bunch of plots at bedrock prices, if they built the depot right here at Buffalo Point.
It was this same fortunate Captain Johnson, by the way, who opened fifteen hundred dollars' worth of champagne when bedrock was reached in his Koyukuk claim.
The cofferdam was then pumped out until the bedrock was exposed and on thisbedrock the masonry courses were laid.
At the edge of the bedrock dark beach sand was mixed with minute garnet-like particles that imparted to it a tinge of ruby.
Jean threw her arms successively about her happy sister and brother-in-law, and finished by capering over thebedrock with Loll as a willing partner.
A second later, in the roughened surface of the bedrock lay flakes of virgin gold!
When they rounded the bluff this morning, instead of finding piles of seaweed and gravel tossed up as they had after the first great gale, they were surprised at vast areas of bedrock from which every vestige of sand had been swept away.
He had found it, he explained, on the bedrock below Bear Paw Lake.
The bedrock that had been bare the day before now lay under several feet of gravel.
And a Christmas without punch is sinking a hole to bedrock with nary a pay streak.
Day and night the yellow clay and scraped bedrock hurried through the swift sluices, yielding up its ransom to the strong men from the Southland.
With the boulders frozen into its lower surface it scratched and grooved the firm bedrock over which it slid, and rounded it to a smooth and billowy surface.
The bedrock under a glacier is scraped and ground and scored by the glacier's tools--the rock fragments frozen into the bottom of the ice.
There was a good deal of doughty controversy between the churches, as between the parties; but love of the Union and the Lord was the bedrock of every confession.
I do not know just what had befallen if love had failed me, for as far back as I can remember love has been to me the bedrock of all that is worth living for, striving for or possessing in this cross-patch of a world of ours.
To the south of the meadow the drainage deepens, then reaches bedrock as it approaches the pour-off.
A layer of loess overlays the bedrock of the flat mesa tops in the Four Corners area.
The Bahá’í teachings on sexual morality centre on marriage and the family as the bedrock of the whole structure of human society and are designed to protect and strengthen that divine institution.
Specimens from Bedrock have zygomatic arches that are heavy anteriorly.
A hundred spring floods have doubtless had the effect of worsening Wolf--a bedrock rapid--somewhat, and of scouring out the worst of the boulders in Bear.
As a rule, however, rapids change less with the years than the opener stretches--this because they are usually made bybedrock or boulders of great size.
A hundred years of time bring great changes even to bedrock riffles, and these latter themselves also vary greatly according to the stage of water.
I ran through in easy, undulant water, without being forced uncomfortably close to some patches of rather savage looking white where the teeth of the bedrock were flecked with tossing foam.
The latter was not far above Big Timber, and was formed by a ledge of bedrock extending all the way across the river.
Bottoms were bedrock and rubble and the water was clear and shaded.
Station E-3 was also a small isolated pool with bedrock bottom and an average depth of 6 inches.
In many places the streams of the Big Caney system flow over resistant limestone members, which form a bedrock bottom.
Station C-6 was a small pool with bedrock bottom, eight feet in diameter, with an average depth of only 4 inches.
At C-1, only one specimen was found in a turbid, isolated pool with bedrock bottom.
The rubble and bedrock bottoms found in most streams of the Flint Hills have been described.
Of the stations listed above C-3 least fits this description being a large shallow pool about 1/3 acre in area having bedrock bottom and slightly turbid water.
On Otter Creek (Station C-13) the species was common in shallow bedrock pools below riffles.
The local kivas were always round and were dug almost full-depth into the ground, except for certain examples which were excavated into the relatively soft bedrock of cliff or mesa-top.
The remains of game pits, dug into the soft bedrock to entrap larger beasts, have been found in several places in the monument.
Polar deserts on the Earth cover nearly 5 million square kilometers and are mostlybedrock or gravel plains.
The remaining surfaces of arid lands are composed of exposed bedrock outcrops, desert soils, and fluvial deposits including alluvial fans, playas, desert lakes, and oases.
He wrote not only the classic of the Santa Fe trade and trail but one of the classics of bedrock Americana.
It was buried deep enough in the bedrock that it escaped the EMP, the electromagnetic pulse, from the blast.
My revolutionary colleagues and I will be at the main power coil, which is buried at least three hundred feet below the bedrock here.
Now we were on the bedrock and the next thing to do was to start three drifts in as many directions.
These things completed and in operation, I was able to make two or three feet per day, and we finally reached the bedrock at a depth of 97 feet.
This was that the supposedbedrock was not bedrock at all, but a wall of large stones built by the hand of man.
In the bedrock about these pools Oliver had previously noted several round holes the size of a half-bushel measure.
In succession, four deep depressions in the bedrockof the creekbed were ranged, and each held clear, cool water, fed by an undiscovered spring, though the creek proper was now entirely dry.
However, he began digging above the point of egress in the resistant blue clay, and late that afternoon was down to bedrock again.
Assemblies and not individuals constitute the bedrock on which the Administration is built.
The hundreds of others who had pegged out beyond us were not so quickly convinced, and they announced their intention of sinking to bedrock if they "busted" in the attempt.
The aim of every miner on an unproved field is to get down to bedrockwith the least possible labour, which is also the speediest method.
The depth of bedrock was sixteen feet, and the frost had penetrated far beyond this level, so that our tunnelling operations along the line of the wash proceeded very slowly indeed.
We had reachedbedrock on the true channel of the stream, and with water still flowing overhead!
He measured about a four-feet length on the snow, meaning, I suppose, that we should find bedrock at that level.
We had arranged ourselves into shifts, which went on and off alternately, or otherwise, as we thought fit; but it was my plan to reach bedrock without delay, so the shaft was never allowed to remain long unoccupied.
Where the New York City Aqueduct passes under the Hudson River near Newburgh, the bedrock bottom of the old river channel is now about 800 feet below sea level as determined by drilling.
The pebbles or bowlders of the ground moraine are commonly facetted and striated as a result of having been rubbed against the bedrock on which the glacier moved.
In some cases erratics of ten or more tons' weight have been left in such remarkably balanced positions on bedrock that a child can cause one of them to swing back and forth slightly.
Even in the Hudson Valley, many miles above New York City, the bedrock bottom of the river lies hundreds of feet (near West Point, 800 feet) below sea level.
