So Grijalva and Cortes saw it; so the voyager of to-day sees it, as its snowy point seems to hang in mid-sky, its base buried in clouds and its gleaming summit surrounded by the azure of the tropic firmament.
A certain lonely hill, which it was my fortune to pass on one occasion, was marked by three decaying crosses set among the stones and thorns at its base.
The summit of a high mountain and the valley at its base may be in the same latitude, and yet one may possess an arctic climate while the other has a sub-tropical one.
The precipitous range, with its crown of jagged peaks and the beautiful lake nestling at its base, presents a picture never to be forgotten.
A ride of fifteen miles from the town of Flagstaff, across the forest-covered plateau, brings us to Shadow Mountain and the fields of lava and volcanic sand lying at its base.
They have been washed about and hurled against the solid rock until they have been worn smooth; and the cliff in turn has had a cave ground out at its base.
It was formed by the last of a series of movements in the earth which raised the great block known as the Wasatch Range to an elevation of six thousand feet above the plains at its base.
Sandstone was found in large masses in the rivulet at its base, with pebbles of various colours, and of species none of which was found on the mount itself.
To the north, Hardwicke's Range, distant between forty and fifty miles: the country broken into low forest hills and plains to its base.
In the generality it is limited to the trunk and often to its base.
I found several fine ferns up this hill; atits base an Acer and fine Equisetum.
Its base is an exact square, each side being eighty-two feet in length.
Scattered at its base were a few wretched houses, the inhabitants of which subsisted by the produce of their apple-orchards.
In open ground the dark trunk develops a symmetrical, wide-spreading, hemispherical head broadest at its base, the lower limbs horizontal or drooping sometimes nearly to the ground.
On its flanks lay some small deposits of scoriae, indications of far-past eruptions, and there were some hot springs at its base, while steam arose from a fissure.
It is not by its streams of fire alone that Etna ravages the valleys and plains at its base.
There was no pleasanter outing for an afternoon than a journey up the green, velvet-like sides of the towering mountain and a view of the quaint, picturesque city slumbering at its base.
The two branches are not of quite equal length; and as with the vine, the longer one has a scale at its base.
One of the branches (B) has a scale at its base; it is always, as far as I have seen, longer than the other and often bifurcates.
The anther is attached at the back of its base or middle to the top of the filament in the suture separating the two large cells.
There are remains of five dormant buds at its base.
Its base is now considerably below the level of the surrounding soil, and there is a church or basilica close by, and some mean edifices looking down upon it.
Its base is almost entirely surrounded with small structures, which seem to be used as farm-buildings.
The peculiarity of this place was its situation on and about a conical hill which sloped gently down from its summit to its base, and allowed of the interposition of seven circuits of wall between the plain and the hill's crest.
It is like a small edition of the hedge bind weed, only its calyx lacks the leaf-like bracts at its base, its slender stem rarely exceeds two feet in length, and the little pink and white flowers often grow in pairs.
A blooming plant, usually with many sterile shoots about its base, has an unkempt, untidy look; the seed capsules and the brown petals of withered flowers remaining among the bright yellow buds through a long season.
The first explorers found this obsidian cliff almost impassable; but when they ascertained of what it was composed, they piled up timber at its base, and set it on fire.
Vast as the bed of a vanished ocean, deep as Mount Washington, riven from its apex to its base, the grandest cañon on our planet lay glittering below me in the sunlight like a submerged continent, drowned by an ocean that had ebbed away.
Such a tree is a thing of beauty, and one can stand long at its base looking up among the wide-spreading limbs so well clothed with leaves of fine texture and tint.
As the snails crawl up the bole or over the moss at its base, it is not easy at a glance to say which are snails and which bud-envelopes.
The bark at its base is smooth and white, its downy leaves have a triangular base, and its twigs are free from warts.
The female flower is much smaller, and consists of a fleshy disk with a few scales at its base, and on this stands a single seed-egg.
The scales are fleshy, and after fertilization the upper ones slowly develop into the form of a berry, which has a few undeveloped scales at its base.
This flap being raised upwards towards its base, very free access is gained to the joint.
This may be made by transfixion at its base, but is better obtained by dissection from without.
The incision should commence over the cord just outside of the external ring, and be continued fairly over the tumour to its base.
Here and there a rugged cliff appears, its base buried in underwood, its front hung with ivy; and there are marks on the trees, and portentous signs on the drifted boulders, which reveal the swollen height of floods.
To the inhabitants the huge rock is a recreative resort: seats are placed at its base; a zigzag path leads to the summit, whence the views over the valley of the Ribble are very picturesque and pleasing.
Its base has a circumference of ten feet, its height is two feet, all produced by a succession of drops from one single point.
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