Then came another cleft, with great boulders at the end, which a horse must negotiate carefully if he would not break a leg or two.
He let the roan scramble over the shale as he would, let him take his own pace among the boulders and up through the Slide.
But Rab had covered many rough trails, and he picked his way over the boulders safely,--though not as a runaway horse should have traveled.
In some places the hills are so covered with huge boulders as to suggest the idea that Titans of old must have fought their battles here,--those rocks their weapons of warfare.
It is swirling musically round its bed of boulders now; in winter I can fancy how it will foam, and rage, and rush along with an impetuosity that no power could resist!
They refer them to the decomposition of the Erian shales, of which boulders filled with these organisms are of frequent occurrence in the Chicago clays.
From the Upper Erian, and perhaps Lower Carboniferous shales of Kettle Point, Lake Huron, of various places in the State of Ohio, and in the shale boulders of the boulder clay of Chicago and vicinity.
Then, while the man rolled up boulders before the narrow entrance of the cave, Nadia gathered leaves and made a soft bed upon its warm, dry floor.
Nadia knew that her arrows could not harm her lover, and through a chink between two boulders she was shooting into the thickest of the mob speeding her light arrows with the full power of her bow.
We'll pile up some of the boulders and you lie low," he instructed her as he screwed on his helmet.
Great rocks and boulders bounded within a meter of their heads; for half an hour the baffled Spirit kept up his attack and then gave it up.
This and huge boulders which have been discovered in the bottom of the lake prove that the hollow valley in which the lake lies was scooped out by a glacier which as it melted left its freight of stone brought down from distant mountain-sides.
Huge boulders were stopped there and formed a barrier against which the fragments carried along by the river were collected.
What billows, what sheets of sparkling foam, what crashing of overturned forests and jangling of monstrous boulders rolled along to be the wonder of succeeding ages!
Ice and boulders rolled with a frightful fracas down two thousand meters of precipice and filled the valley and the gorge with their débris.
They can fling down avalanches and hurl enormous boulders or bullet-like stones at him, tearing themselves to pieces in their blind fury to do so, but here he is above them.
Some of the boulders are so entirely hollowed out as to resemble an egg-shell or a woman's hood.
Here is the "Grotte de Napoleon," a little natural arbour or open cave formed by granite boulders and shaded by ilex, where the boy Napoleon used to study his lessons, or arrange his mimic campaigns with his companions.
Very thankful were we at last to sit down on some large boulders beside the rushing waters, where a grove of thickly growing chestnuts threw a grateful shade around.
Our mid-day halt was at Ponte alle Lecchia, where the river, widening out and dashing in white foam, throws itself over boulders of bright green porphyry under a handsome bridge.
Huge loose boulders were tumbled in an avalanche everywhere.
Rocks and boulders were strewn here on the floor of this giant valley, and I saw occasional pools of water.
The large boulders not only act as shelter against rain, but they bind and consolidate by their mere weight the clay upon which they rest.
After a time the great boulders fall off and the underlying clay becomes worn by the rainwash to fantastic spikes and ridges.
They arise under conditions where large stones or boulders are scattered in a deep deposit of clay, and where much of the denudation is due to water scour.
Besides these, loose pieces of stone from the bluff itself, boulders from the creek, of convenient size, enter into the composition of the walls.
Was this the sacrificial stone of an ancient Druid; or are these boulders relics of the glacial period, and were the marks alluded to caused by the action of the weather?
On the same plain of Dalginross, and a short distance to the north of these boulders we have referred to, is the site of the old Roman Camp, Victoria.
Boulders of ore, a broken wagon, old cross-ties were pulled out and sent bounding into the seventyfoot gulley, each starting a rocketing train of pebbles and rocks after it.
The boys practiced hurling outcrop boulders at the big-trunked oaks until they could skin the bark four times out of five at fifty feet.
I did not think of them in connection with our cups, circles, and so forth on our boulders and standing stones.
As the buffalo walked around theseboulders their hoofs loosened the soil, and this loosened soil--the dust--was blown away by the constant winds of summer.
Lastly, as the land rose again from this submergence, sand and gravel were deposited, and boulders scattered over the surface by floating ice.
Above this clay are sand and gravel, and the principal deposit of travelled stones and boulders rests on these.
Their wet feet on the slippery boulders in the bottom of the stream, the swift current constantly tripping them--it was thrilling to see and must have been agony for the animals.
It is bounded by rocks and boulders green with exquisite ferns and mosses.
Craterville, in fact, was a huddle of broken-down houses among a great scattering of boulders with the big mountains plunging up on every side to the dull blue of the night sky.
The blood-bay went like the wind, passing up-jutting boulders with a swish of gravel knocked from his plunging hoofs against the rock.
On the east is Rock Creek, extending the whole length of the Park, so named on account of the immense boulders within the channel and along the borders.
The boulders in the vicinity of Devil's Den and the Round Tops afforded natural defences for both armies.
Great belts of blue gentian hang like a zone on the mountain slopes; masses of yellow globe-flower star the upland pastures; nodding heads of soldanella lurk low among the rugged boulders by the glacier's side.
There we stumbled over boulders for a minute or so, and began to climb the steep shale on the other side.
The night was so thick you could feel the darkness pressing on you; the mountain dropped abruptly to the left, and was strewn with boulders and blocks of stone.
Our way led first through a canon-bed filled with roundedboulders and rocks, slippery and unstable.
A broad shallow wash crossed our way, but we plunged through its rocks and boulders recklessly, angered at even the slight delay they necessitated.
Williams and his two companions scrambled up the stony beach over the grey stones and bouldersalongside the tumbling brook for over a hundred yards.
The enemy fired from behindboulders on the mountain sides.
There were no roads, only rough tracks, and the wagon would drag through the deep sand, or bump over great boulders of rock, or sink into wet places by the river.
The sun was setting and those sentinel boulders bulked in the dying light.
Directly ahead you see a battlement of boulders projected by some immemorial upheaval.
Everywhere the cliffs were barren, just rock and more rock, a jumble of great boulders strewn along sheer precipices, everywhere save alone in this one spot.
The mountains come down steeply on all sides, the timber stands thick, boulders are scattered everywhere, and it was already dark.
It was all uphill, or it was down, or strewn with boulders so big that they looked like mountains in miniature.
I hope not,” said the doctor, gravely; then he began talking about different things, showing Nell the big boulders of ironstone which stood up among the tree growths like the ruins of some ancient castle.
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