Twelve miles south there is a glen with a plateau at its head, and that plateau is as full of Indians as a beehive.
On the road we met many bands of Indians hastening to the trysting-place, for the leader had flung his outposts along the whole base of the range, and the chief warriors returned to the plateau for the last ritual.
Denver, standing on her high plateauunder a thrilling green-blue sky, is masked in snow and glittering with sunlight.
They were crossing a plateau where great red sandstone boulders lay about, most of them much wider at the top than at the base, so that they looked like great toadstools.
Old Biltmer followed a faint wagon trail which ran southeast, and which, as they traveled, continually dipped lower, falling away from the high plateau on the slope of which Flagstaff sits.
Kirk is with me in opinion, and if I could only get you out to take a trip up to the plateau of Zomba, and over the uplands which surround Lake Nyassa, you would give in too.
Up the switchback to a green plateau we went, meeting our first ice there, and here again that miracle of the mountains, meadow flowers and snow side by side.
But it is the real starting-place for the descent of the Tarn gorges, and it possesses many excellent hotels and an ample service of coaches for the journey across the great plateau of the Causse de Sauveterre to Ste.
At last he thought he saw a way up, a sloping ledge leading to a small plateau before the rock reared higher in a sheer cliff.
The others clustered around the chief's desk, a vast plateauof silvery plastic strewn with a hodge-podge of papers and tapes.
He also intended to let his faithful horse have a good rest on the little plateau and naturally he began a conversation with the sitting maid.
The well trained horse like a cat hung on to the mountain, taking advantage of the most insignificant little trail or plateau and of every imaginable hardly noticeable highland road.
The summit is a plateau from which three rocky knolls rise up, that on the west being the lowest, that on the south-east the highest.
The Paropamisus forms the southern face of the Turkestan plateau, which contains the sources of the Murghab river; the northern face of the same plateauis defined by the Band-i-Turkestan.
The ascent to Los Muertos reminded me of Thiers's description of the road rising up the Incanale to the plateau of Rivoli, in his account of that battle in Napoleon's Italian campaigns.
As Lombardini was advancing across the plateau to Pacheco's right, Pacheco's division rose from the ravine (to form line with him) directly opposite the Second Illinois troops.
Darkness closed around us while we ate, the wide plateau stretched about us, mysterious in the light of the moon, and the night was cool and pleasant.
I went one day with Le Brunnec, the French trader, in search of rubber trees on the plateau of Ahao, above Hanamenu, on the other side of Hiva-oa Island.
We were to estimate the number of eva trees on the plateau and size up the value of the land for a plantation.
It was long before the Apaches were seen again, for the ascent of the plateaulost them a considerable space, and after that they were hidden for a time by its undulations.
There was a plateau for them to climb at the start, and by the time this labor was accomplished they were staggering with weakness, so that a halt had to be ordered on the windy brink of the acclivity.
Santa Fé is situated on the great central plateau of North America, seven thousand feet above the level of the sea.
It had been necessary to ascend plateau after plateau by sinuous and crumbling ledges, which at a distance looked impracticable to goats.
Our travellers were now amid wild labyrinths of ranges, and buttes, and cañons, which were not so much a portion of the great plateau as they were the débris that constituted its flanks.
Starting at dawn, they finished the cañon in about an hour, traversed an uneven plateau which stretched beyond its final sinuous branch gullies, and found themselves on the brow of a lofty terrace, overlooking a sublime panorama.
Scattered over the plateau which he was traversing, there were a few thickets of mesquite, with here and there a fantastic butte of sandstone.
It is a continent of rock, gullied by furious rivers; plateau on plateau of sandstone, with sluiceways through which lakes have escaped; the whole surface gigantically grotesque with the carvings of innumerable waters.
Striking southward, they reached a point where the plateau culminated in a low ridge, and saw before them a long gentle slope of ten miles, then a system of rounded hills, and then mountains.
In no other portion of our planet is nature so unnatural, so fanciful and extravagant, and seemingly the production of caprice, as on the great central plateau of North America.
The eroded, disintegrated plateau descended to the river in a huge confusion of ruin, and they had to pick their way for miles through a labyrinth of cliffs, needles, towers, and bowlders.
The path, however, did not prove to be the right one, and it was twilight, or that extremely short interval which does duty for it in the south, before I came to three or four stone huts fronting a plateau with an enclosure full of goats.
I was on a vast plateau of gold and brown and purple.
Never did anything seem fresher and sweeter than theplateau on which we emerged in the early sunset, after defiling all day through the dark deep mountain-sides in the rain.
The more elevated regions of the north and east are given over to pasture, sheep being specially numerous on the Plateau de Millevaches.
Correze is situated on the western fringe of the central plateau of France.
Coffee, first planted in 1838, is grown chiefly on the plateau of San Jose.
Plateau de Millevaches separates the basins of the Loire and the Garonne.
Occasionally we would speed up a narrow defile, with the broken, tumbling cliffs rising abruptly over our heads, only to come out above a level plateau or across a cañon a thousand feet deep or more.
Had we been on any of the upper reaches of the plateau we would undoubtedly have been picked out by one of the roving beams of light and destroyed.
It was not mountainous, but rather more a great broken plateau with a steady ascent.
The mountain-chains interlace, the interstices forming small enclosed basins, such as the plain of Boeotia and the plateau of Arcadia; the only plain of any extent is that of Thessaly.
The plateau "lowlands" in the centre of the Basin are approximately 5000 ft.
The mountains of the Morea, grouped around the elevated central plateau of Arcadia, form an independent system with ramifications extending through the Argolid peninsula on the E.
Incredible as it seems, the Prussians were ignorant of the withdrawal of the Austrians from the plateau of Dubenetz, and did not, in fact, even know that Von Benedek had occupied that position.
Von Benedek’s army remained in its position on the plateau of Dubenetz.
Prince Charles had rallied and concentrated his corps on the plateau of Waldbüttelbrünn.
The rest of the army was concentrated before night upon the plateau of Dubenetz, against the army of the Crown Prince, as follows: [Illustration: No.
The two corps now retired to the positions originally designated, the movement being covered by the fire of 64 pieces of artillery posted on the plateau of Nedelist.
The day was consumed in constructing bridges across the Iser, at Turnau and Podol, and in concentrating the main body of the army on the plateau of Sichrow, preparatory to an attack upon the Austrian position at Münchengrätz.
Quite a large village has sprung up on the plateau in rear of the old homestead; a village in which may be counted four substantial houses, "standing in their own grounds," and one tiny wooden church.
The troops were driven almost entirely off the main plateauand the Boers succeeded in reoccupying some of their trenches.
Doornkloof and break out on to the plateau beyond Clery's Division.
The straight position in front of Sir Charles Warren ran in two lines along the edge and crest of a plateau which rises steeply two miles from the river, but is approachable by numerous long arêtes and dongas.
From this Hlangwani plateau he could either cross the river where it ran north and south or where it ran east and west.
The point he chose for his home site was the top of a bareplateau overlooking the river, the face of it gray, crumbling shale, rising three hundred feet in abrupt slope from the water's edge.
