The boatmen take you through the gorgesin racehorse style.
Oxbow lakes are common, but gorges and waterfalls are absent.
During this youthful stage there are no sharp drainage divides; gorges and waterfalls are not uncommonly present; and the relief of the land in general is not rugged.
Strikingly narrow and deep valleys, called gorges and canyons, are rather exceptional features of stream action.
In New York and New England there are many gorges which have developed by the action of running water since the Great Ice Age.
In fact it is not too much to say that practically all true gorges and waterfalls of the glaciated region have originated as a direct result of the Ice Age.
They were in the granite gorges of the waterfalls.
He was, no doubt, at present in the gorges beyond the forests of the Mambava.
The water ran down the sides of the lava-bed, cutting deep gorges or canons, so deep that the sun can hardly see the bottom.
The moist breath of the coming night, cool and sweet, floats down upon them from the deep gorges on the rugged flank of Cro' Nest, and rises from the thickly lacing branches of the cedars on the river-bank below.
We have to cross gorges so narrow that a biscuit might be thrown from the last horse descending to the bell-horse six hundred feet ahead, ascending the opposite side.
We move forward down and up gorges hundreds of feet deep, amongst rocky masses where the poor horses have to clamber as best they can amid sharp points and deep crevices, running the constant risk of a broken leg.
The Gorges are where the mighty river has forced a passage through a lofty range of mountains, which barred its progress to the sea.
The scenery of theGorges is the grandest I have ever seen, and made a greater impression on me than even that of the Rocky Mountains.
This, the chief river of British Columbia, flows in a course seven hundred miles, and is marked by rare grandeur of scenery, with frequent rapids dashing through gorges almost impassable.
We enter the narrow harbour at Owen Sound, a town surrounded by low hills, through the gorges of which the River Sydenham penetrates, passing over some falls of great beauty a mile from the town.
We move forward down and up gorges hundreds of feet deep, amongst rocky masses, where the poor horses had to clamber as best they could amid sharp points and deep crevices, running the constant risk of a broken leg.
We have to crossgorges so narrow that a biscuit might be thrown from the last horse descending, to the bell-horse six hundred feet ahead, ascending the opposite side.
Beyond that point we have the wilderness in its native ruggedness, without a path for the human foot, with the river and mountain gorges only as landmarks and guides.
Many were swept away down the gorges and into the Klip River, never again to be accounted for in the lists of their field-cornet.
Luckily it was straight, the lightest curve, at the pace we had gone, would have shot the outfit halfway across the gorgesbefore we struck the ground.
We swung around a curve and a vista opened out of a ragged valley, broken by gorges and cañons with sheer walls of soft rock.
In high water the rock is often entirely covered, and nothing shows but the shift and coil of great eddies and whirlpools to mark the choked gorges beneath.
Three batalones were running their cargo of rubber through the gorges at the side of the cataract.
From Vitor on we wound through twisting gorges or steep valleys, barren of all save cactus and the desert shale and boulders.
Enormous cliffs of snow towered above the scarred, black gorges of its flanks, glittering in the flash of momentary sunlight and iridescent in the purple shadows.
Gorges stood in a much nearer relation to the Earl than did his mother's friend and dependant (as Wincob evidently was), as well as on a much more equal social footing.
Gorges himself furnishes, in his writings, the strongest confirmation we have of the already apparent fact, that he was himself the prime conspirator.
He is from Monhiggon, an island to the eastward some days' sail, near where Sir Ferdinando Gorges had a settlement.
It was wonderful, too, to hear the voices of these young mountaineers; they threw back their heads and shouted till the echoes rang from the mountain-sides and roared in the gorges as if from the throats of a legion of demons.
To the south this barrier consists of a series of flexures folded parallel to the river, through which the plateau drainage breaks down in transverse lines forming gorges and clefts as it cuts through successive ridges.
The streams are merely mountain torrents; many of them pass through narrow gorges of wild beauty.
At its eastern end towered the colossal scarp of the unnamed peak through one of whose gorges we had crept.
Secondly, he married Leva, daughter and heir of John Gorges of Tamerton-Foliot, Devon, and widow of John Wibbery.
Sir Arthur Gorges was of Chelsea, he disposed of the old possession to the Trevills, a family of prosperous Plymouth merchants.
But gorges and ridges were not all Dan had to show us.
But the third day these pests disappeared in time to allow the voyagers to pay due attention to a troubled piece of water, as the stream shot down the northern slope of the Arctic Rockies through gorges and canyons of no little height.
It seemed as though the larger river had been led into bad habits by the new arrival, for it became a wild scramble of water, rushing through the canyons and gorges of the Alaskan Range with terrifying speed.
So, you see, you must not think of these like mountains as being built up, but of gorges as being cut down.
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