Then it turned away and seemed about to end abruptly on a flat outcropping of rock two miles from Whisper camp.
He did not follow the trail, but struck straight across an outcropping ledge, descended to Granite Creek and strode along next the hill where the soil was gravelly and barren.
There were more briers, and now and then they stumbled over outcropping rocks.
There, in the lee of anoutcropping grey ledge of weathered granite, they subsided on a bed of leaves with sighs of contentment.
Casting abroad for evidences of glacial action, Agassiz found them everywhere in the form of transported erratics, scratched and polished outcropping rocks, and moraine-like deposits.
Everywhere about us there are outcropping rocks that are not stratified, but which give evidence to the observant eye of having once been in a molten state.
It is furnished by every bed of limestone, every outcropping fragment of fossil-bearing rock, every stratified cliff.
Back of the camp and tending northwest to southeast was a low ridge of outcropping slate, bare in spots--a hog-back, in wilderness phrase.
Growing bolder, as the days wore on, he hid his canoe below the outlet of the lake and taking advantage of this outcropping slate ledge with its many fissures, secreted himself and watched.
From here a series of outcropping slate ledges rose one above another, and between them and parallel to the shore, narrow, irregular passages partially closed by broken rock.
He located, by computation, the spot beneath which the end of the tunnel then was, and began collecting samples of the outcropping ledge.
He recognized some places where he had taken samples of rock from the outcropping to test the strength of his explosive.
Tom made tests of the pieces he had obtained from the outcropping ledge on the mountain where he had shot the condor, and decided to make a change in the powder.
Now, you must have noticed that most of the outcropping rock around here is of a very refractory kind?
At seven o'clock the young engineers and their handful of toilers moved over to the point in the outcropping vein of ore that Reade had selected for their first blast.
Sitting on the level space half way down to the outcropping ledge which held the workroom of the counterfeiters, Bradley looked anxiously in the direction of the canyon.
Straight down, in a canyon made by an outcropping ledge of rock, he saw a faint light, as from a campfire which had been allowed to die down.
I kept behind ridges andoutcropping rocks, and in the shadows.
He walked straight across to the fire and passed it, turning into a shallow cave there was in the rock of the outcropping ridge.
Beyond this he saw the dark opening of a cave in the outcropping ridge.
Here and there a break in the rocky roof above--the ceiling of the apartment was very near to the surface of the outcropping ridge--let in a shaft of light, but for the most part the apartment was in heavy shadows.
The two columns of smoke were in the air again, ascending from the canyon between the mountainside and the outcropping ridge.
The boys walked softly back to the north, keeping ridges and outcropping rocks between the canyon and themselves, and then crept softly down the slope so as to come out at the north end of the little cut.
The problem of locating the depth of the desirable horizons in the mine in question would be easy enough, if it were not for the fact that the outcropping rocks consist of a series of sediments with few characteristic fossils.
An attempt was made to correlate the outcropping beds by close examination of the layers exposed, but the result was not very satisfactory.
A blood splash stared at them from an outcropping slope of rock.
Catching hold of outcropping ledges, mesquit, and even cactus bushes, she went up like a mountain goat But the water swept upon her, waist high, and dragged at her.
So our consideration of the processes of outcropping and acceptation has inevitably invested them with a false appearance of difficulty.
This outcropping should be sought before the special suggestions are formulated.
It is fairly obvious that the greater the outcropping the more accessible these dynamic strata of the mind become, and the easier it is to implant there any idea we wish to realise.
A patient trying by his rules to attain outcropping and implant therein an autosuggestion is so vigilantly attentive to what he is doing that outcropping is rendered almost impossible.
This submersion of the conscious mind is called by Baudouin the "Outcropping of the Subconscious.
By monopolising the attention it keeps the conscious mind fully alert and so prevents one from attaining the measure of outcropping needful to initiate successfully an autosuggestion.
During outcropping association by contraries does not seem readily to take place.
In the partial state of outcroppingassociation is not entirely cut off, and such an idea would certainly call up its contrary.
This probably results in the outcroppingof the various psychic trends which appear in the ticquer and which increase in degree and in number.
In other cases this history is not obtainable, the individual having been apparently perfectly normal up to the time of the outcropping of the tic.
It was not large enough to have any vegetation; it really was only a giant granite outcropping that nearly disappeared every time a breaker washed over it.
It was a quick climb, through the slivers of graniteoutcropping that cut their way out of the shallow soil.
Pard was grunting now, but Douglas rowelled him and pushed on until he saw the antelope kneeling in the lee of an outcropping of rock.
Douglas spurred his horse and in a moment saw the figure of a man standing beside an outcropping rock.
At the expiration of two months the Warden may grant an authority to search on such land, and the holder may, within the period named in the authority, remove from any vein or lode outcropping at the surface 28 lb.
Each of these immense metalliferous deposits was found outcropping on the summit of a hill of comparatively low altitude.
The chain of hills in which Breed hunted was but an outcropping spur, extending thirty miles eastward at right angles from the main bulk of the hills, and he found no meat.
With nightfall Breed descended to the tongue of the foothills that reached up into the notch formed by the outcropping spur where it joined the main range at right angles.
She had a thick, pudgy face, an oily skin, an outcropping of dull red pimples on the chin.
She sat down on a ledge of the outcropping rock and looked about her.
The physical possibilities were arrayed against the project, so steep was the comblike summit on either side, so heavy and tortuous the outcropping rock that served as the bony structure of the great mountain mass.
Hills, with their outcropping quarries of limestone, stood out against the blue sky.
If the outcropping strata be a soft calcareous (limy) sandstone or soft felspathic rock, and that be also the true bottom, great care should be exercised or one is apt to sink through the bottom, which may be very loose and decomposed.
The outcropping of ancestral types of mentality is observed to underlie many of the manifestations of vice and crime.
Lydston, in The Diseases of Society (Lippincott: 1904) says: The outcropping of ancestral types of mentality is observed to underlie many of the manifestations of vice and crime.
Slightly below the falls, concealed beneath an outcropping rock, you will find several stanch Indian boats.
We went on past the ridge toward an outcropping of rock about a hundred yards farther on.
We stood there by the outcropping and looked out along the wide, red desert beyond.
And the perpendicular face of our outcropping elevated us some twelve or thirteen feet above the steep hillside.
I can recall one strenuous noon hour in an outcropping of rock where, between shattered arrows, precipitous chasing of transfixed old warriors, defiant whistlers on all sides, we piled up nearly a dozen victims.
