This is a deep, rocky stream, with very high bluffs, a good place for Indians to make an attack.
It was a long, difficult stretch, for it crossed the "Continental Divide" of the Rocky Mountains and many a dry, sandy desert forsaken of man and beast.
With the exception of the mountain sheep and goat, the animals of the Rocky mountains, if these rocky passes support any, are not better known than their vegetable and mineral productions.
People speak so often of the Rocky Mountains, and appear to know so little about them, that the reader will naturally desire me to say here a word on that subject.
The real height of the Rocky Mountains, as now ascertained, averages twelve thousand feet; the highest known peak is about sixteen thousand.
The name of Rocky mountains was given them, probably, by later travellers, in consequence of the enormous isolated rocks which they offer here and there to the view.
It is a depot for those traders who are going to Slave lake or the Athabasca, or are returning thence, as well as for those destined for the Rocky mountains.
In spite of the vices that may be laid to the charge of the natives of the Columbia, I regard them as nearer to a state of civilization than any of the tribes who dwell east of the Rocky mountains.
Here is seen in the west the chain of the Rocky Mountains, whose summits are covered with perpetual snow.
It was upon an April morn While yet the frost lay hoar, We heard Lord James's bugle-horn Sound by the rocky shore.
But the fell king enjoy'd not long The triumph of his impious wrong: The vengeance of the god soon found him, And in a rocky dungeon bound him.
A bird frequents these parts with a blue chest, called Passer solitarius; he abounds in the rocky crevices.
The banks are rocky and forbidding; the hills, which rise to the altitude of mountains, have, in a long course of ages, been always inhabited by a civilized people.
There were firm areas in the swamp, rocky places and high knolls where the green trees grew.
The house was built on a rocky knoll, one of the few places in Dog Tooth Valley that was not given over to swamp land.
Joe went to Rocky Ford that afternoon, and was fortunate in finding the new manager of the Resolutes, the one-time rivals of the Silver Stars.
Here also was a dim light that permitted him to see another corridor at the opposite side; so he crossed the rocky floor of the cavern and entered a second corridor.
They finally decided to land and explore the country, to see where they were, so Inga ran the boat into a little rocky cove where they all disembarked.
Instantly the floor began to sink beneath him and in great alarm he turned and made a leap that enabled him to grasp the rocky sides of the wall and regain a footing in the passage through which he had just come.
Near to the shores were green and fertile fields, but farther back from the sea were rugged hills and mountains, so rocky that nothing would grow there.
It was not long before they passed the sands and reached the rocky country belonging to the nomes, but they were still a long way from the entrance to the underground caverns in which lived the Nome King.
He was the elected Xerxes of vast herds of wild horses, whose pastures in those days were only fenced by the Rocky Mountains and the Alleghanies.
No small number of these whaling seamen belong to the Azores, where the outward bound Nantucket whalers frequently touch to augment their crews from the hardy peasants of those rocky shores.
In these distinctions, I take no account of ragged and rocky mountains, with the indescribable play of golden and rosy light upon their broken surfaces, nor of a coast that teems with the recollections of three thousand years!
The rocky promontory that sheltered one end of their little beach was cutting off a view of the yacht.
There was a tiny beach in front of them, where a cove nestled between two rocky horns.
A warm mist had thinned sufficiently to show the rocky shore, and beyond it, partly sequestered among the trees, the summer homes and cottages of persons who still slept in innocence of the designs of Aunt Caroline.
After several hours’ rest, they again set out, and succeeded in gaining a rocky plateau, 3800 feet above sea-level.
It was a cavity hollowed out in a mass of snow lying under a rocky wall.
From the head of this bay they passed along a valley to its termination, and then had to turn off to the north up a steep rocky ravine.
On the 29th, Payer ascended the rocky heights of Koldewey Island.
On some rocky islets near Littleton Island over 200 eider ducks were killed in a few hours.
Suddenly he shot down a smooth slope, and without effort of his own found himself borne up an opposing steep, from the crest of which he had a view of white lines of foam, and beyond them of a dim and rocky shore.
As it was, a margin of marsh was left between her and the steep, rocky side of the mount from which the great wall rose, and through this she made her way.
There, looming up in the sun was the big white tower that stood on a rockypoint which jutted out from the main land.
She had run well up on a rocky reef, and when the tide fell, the strain had "broken her back" so that the bow and stern were separated.
The engine had jumped the track, and crashed into the rocky sides of the defile.
How deadly, how solemnly still, how wet and cold, was now a rocky strand upon the river road!
He saw more than the stream, for a horseman had paused upon the little rocky strand, and, hearing hoofs behind him, had partly turned his own steed.
He struck it aside, and, coming to the rocky top of a little rise, checked Selim for a moment of the fresher air.
A moment thus, then they began to pick their way down the rocky road.
Between them was a narrow rocky space, about Rand a heavy frame of leaves, behind Cary the clear flowing stream.
The little rocky strand above the stream upon the river road lay half in sun and half in shade.
Between the flashes, his iron feet filled the rocky road with sparks of fire.
From the top of a rocky mountain twenty miles away he had witnessed the conflagration, and needed not to be told of his loss.
All along the alpine bridge we mounted, runs a massy wall of large hewn stone, which, in many places, like a curtain, closes the openings left by nature in the rocky bulwarks of the country.
People who land for the first time, however, are agreeably disappointed by finding that every opportunity for encouraging vegetation and imparting its cheerful effect to the rocky soil has been duly improved.
This effect, added to the lingering orange hue in the west, and the sober gray of the rocky promontory itself, made up a pleasing variety of color.
This road terminates at a rocky plateau which serves to give these wonderful structures an elevated site, as well as to form a natural foundation for the enormous weight of solid stone to be supported.
Near Chilpancingo, Guerrero, rockysituations seemed to be the preferred habitat.
The region in which the valley lies is rocky and boulder-strewn; its own waters flow to the Kabul-river east of the water of Chitral.
The personal observations of Ujfalvy and Schuyler led them to accept its identification with the rocky ridge known as the Takht-i-sulaiman.
Presumably this was near Parhala, which stands, where the Suhan river quits the hills, at the eastern entrance of a wild and rocky gorge a mile in length.
Bay, but in places in the interior, where rocky ledges occur, is sometimes rather common.
This kind of weather continued for some days; and at times it was so thick, that we were obliged to stop for several hours together, as we were unable to see our way, and the road was remarkably rocky and intricate.
In preparation are the Journals of La Verendrye, the first white man to come in sight of the Rocky Mountains by an overland route.
They delight most in rocky and stony {383} places, near the borders of woods; though many of them brave the coldest Winters on entire barren ground.
It inhabits the Barren Grounds from Hudson Bay north-westward to the Mackenzie, and is represented by related and intergrading forms nearly throughout Alaska, and southward in the Rocky Mountains to the northern United States.
Notes to accompany a geological map of the Northern portion of the Dominion of Canada, east of the Rocky Mountains.
It proceeded now with a rush and a rattle towards the plain, and its rockycourse reminded me of my shoeless feet.
One instance in 1866 rises in my memory, which I must record: Returning eastward from Fort Garland, we ascended the Rocky Mountains to the Sangre-de- Cristo Pass.
The cavalry was ordered to follow the railroad north as far as Chester, and then to turn east to Rocky Mount, the point indicated for the passage of the left wing.
At that date the Union Pacific construction had reached the Rocky Mountains at Cheyenne, and the Kansas Pacific to about Fort Wallace.
From Tunnel Hill I could look into the gorge by which the railroad passed through a straight and well-defined range of mountains, presenting sharp palisade faces, and known as "Rocky Face.
In person I reached Rocky Mount on the 22d, with the Twentieth Corps, which laid its pontoon-bridge and crossed over during the 23d.
The rain was so heavy and persistent that the Catawba, River rose fast, and soon after I had crossed the pontoon bridge at Rocky Mount it was carried away, leaving General Davis, with the Fourteenth Corps, on the west bank.
