On high mountains and on deserts, a daily range of temperature of from 70 degrees to 80 degrees is frequent.
All the rest of the continent was land, apparently almost or wholly devoid of high mountains.
This also contains many hard pieces, as may easily be remarked on the summits of high mountains, which cut and tear the shoes of travellers.
This rocky stone, which is found at the top of high mountains, and which I look upon as a kind of granite, contains a great quantity of talky leaves, and is so hard as not to be worked but by an infinite deal of labour.
The weight of bodies would be greater on the tops of high mountainsthan on the planes; so that we should feel ourselves considerably heavier, and should walk with more difficulty in high than in low places.
There were four houses standing, apparently not old, and the traces of eight others, situated on a low point of land, well covered with grass, and surrounded by high mountains.
We then endeavoured to find shelter in a bay bounded by high mountains, but found none, the wind driving the ice after us into it, and soon filling it.
It is about four or five miles long, and surrounded by high mountains, with some pleasant plains at their foot, covered with verdure.
The echo, the high rocks on the north, high mountains on the south with the narrow ravine for a road, form a scenery at once romantic and more interesting than I have ever witnessed.
We are yet enclosed by high mountains on each side, and this is the first good camping place we have seen since noon, not for lack of grass or water, but on account of the narrow gap between the mountains.
At half past twelve we halted to feed, having traveled six and three-quarters miles and are yet surrounded by high mountains.
The valley extends to the south probably fifty miles where it is again surrounded by high mountains.
The hamlet is picturesquely situated on an elevation above the shore, and for a {110} background has an imposing amphitheatre of high mountains.
Here a fine lake, Espelandsvand, reposes at a height of some 1,200 feet above the fjord, surrounded by high mountains.
We are now at the entrance to Nord Fjord, and the steamer seems to make its way towards a towering but distant mass of high mountains, on which we discern large uneven patches of perpetual snow.
Four days to the district of Mulehet[240], possessed by a sect who do not believe in the tenets of Mohammed, but live on the summit of high mountains, and pay obedience to the commands of the Old Man in the country of the Assassins.
The Dead Sea is inclosed on the east and west with exceeding high mountains; on the north it is bounded by the plain of Jericho, on which side also it receives the waters of Jordan.
I travelled the ensuing day between two high mountains, whose tops were crowned with wood.
On Sunday the 7th of May he proceeded along the coast, which he found everywhere provided with excellent harbours, high mountains, and numerous rivers.
The greatest part of the island of Porto Rico consists of high mountains, some of which are clothed with fine grass, like those of Hispaniola.
That water comes down from the high mountains," he said, "and a few degrees more of cold would turn it into ice.
He avoided chasms and cliffs, chose the best places on the slopes, and wherever he wound he always led deeper and deeper into the vast maze of high mountains.
On the first evening, the place of encampment was a small plain, with no other vegetation than a few prickly talk bushes, encircled by high mountains of basalt, which gave it the appearance of a volcanic crater.
Rising in a chain of high mountains, flowing through extensive plains, receiving large tributaries, and terminating in the ocean, it exhibits exactly the ordinary phenomena of a great river.
Mr. Park now proceeded on his journey; the country began to rise into hills, and he saw the summits of high mountains to the westward.
At the back of the range of high mountains by which the countries of Indrapura and Anak-sungei are bounded lies the district or valley of Korinchi, which, from its secluded situation, has hitherto been little known to Europeans.
I kept away from the road and paths, passing over several ranges of high mountains, camping at very high altitudes, for nearly three weeks.
No doubt the satisfaction of going up high mountains is very great; but can it be compared to that of coming down?
High mountains rose on either side of us, and we followed the Kuti River flowing here from West to East.
The chinook winds of the western portion of Canada and the United States occur principally to the eastward of high mountains, for the reason that the prevailing air-currents of that region are from the west.
It is a familiar fact that boreal and even arctic climatic conditions are met with on high mountains.
Behind the glacier there is a ridge of high mountains, covered with snow, which we had seen twice before; first, from near White Kelp Cove, and again from Halt Bay.
On the 3d of May, we anchored in Port Gallant: though perfectly secure, this is a dismal harbour in winter, being so surrounded by high mountains, that the sun is seldom visible.
And here is a Venice at the foot of high mountains, and all in the water, no streets or squares; a fine even depth of three feet and a half or so for navigators, much what you have in the Spitway in London River at low spring tides.
I had brandy there, and on going out I found that it stood at the foot of a sharp ridge which was the true Grimsel Pass, the neck which joins the Bernese Oberland to the eastern group of high mountains.
There is a deep solemnity about this glorious avenue with its broad shade and dancing lights, and the rare glimpses of high mountains.
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