This fact is worth noticing, as the sources of the Oder, Elbe, and Vistula must be traced in Austria, and sections only of the Rhine and Danube traverse the empire.
A little Alpine saxifrage is curious in this respect, for the plant will traverse over many feet of barren rock to reach a suitable position.
The great centers of ancient civilization in Egypt, China, India and Babylonia, all had their growth in alluvial plains, built up and fertilized by the mighty rivers which traverse those countries.
A number of mountain ranges, supporting broad plateaus between, traverse it from east to west.
Now if I can get in a traverse that's only eight or nine yards long, and press the spring of one of those little cricket balls, I ought to be able to get out on the other side of the traversebefore it explodes.
From the city there are sketches of journeys in every direction, and at last wetraverse the palm forest of St. Jago, and stand upon the heights whence the eye reaches to the Pacific.
The windows are unglazed; and in winter it must be singularly uncomfortable, particularly as the occupant must traverse the length of the yard in all weathers.
The Mongolia had still sixteen hundred and fifty miles to traverse before reaching Bombay, and was obliged to remain four hours at Steamer Point to coal up.
Of the country he had thus to traverse he had already passed almost half in mere distance, but in the difficulties the greater part of his task was still before him.
It was plain therefore that Philip would get shut up in Messenia with his army, and remain inactive for what remained of the summer; while the Aetolians would traverse Thessaly and Epirus and plunder them at their pleasure.
Other streams traversethe country; but these are the principal rivers of Louisiana, whose heads rest on the Rocky mountains.
In addition, I had an Appleyard Course and Distance Calculator, and Traverse tables for the calculation of "dead reckoning.
Was his friend endowed with supernatural powers that enabled him to traverse the sea at will?
For there was still all that long, desperate traverse of the defile before we could guide our horses to firm ground again.
And, if we were not quick about it, we should soon see the last of them, and be compelled to traverse the rest of the road to Plassenburg upon our own proper feet.
Between Little Traverseand Mackinaw is the village of Cross, or La Crosse.
Grand Traverse Bay, the Manistee and the River Aux Becs Scies are the outlets for the pine timber, and afford ample means of communication between the interior and the lake for such purposes.
The county seat is at Grand Traverse City, West Bay, where they have a court-house and jail.
Northward, the region embraces the head-waters of the Manistee and Au Sauble, with the large tracts of excellent pine in that locality, and beyond, the agricultural region extending to Little Traverse Bay and the Straights of Mackinaw.
There are also large tracts of beech and maple timber lying between the head of Grand Traverse Bay, and the Manistee and Muskeegon rivers.
An Indian spiritualist, residing at Little Traverse Bay, was once requested to enter a lodge for the purpose of affording a neighboring Indian an opportunity to converse with a departed spirit about his child who was then very sick.
It is well sheltered at its mouth by the Traverse Islands, and has for its affluent the outlet of Winnebago and the Fox River.
At the salient of the bastion there is a mortar battery under the rampart, and a casemated traverse for howitzers upon the terreplein.
The Turks also used two or three tiers of musketry fire, as for instance one from the crest of the glacis, one from the parapet, and one from a traverse in rear of it.
Last, the swealed herbage lifts a leering light, And flames traverse the field; and hurt and slain Opposed, opposers, in a common plight Are scorched together on the dusk champaign.
These traverse the entire region, dividing the rocks into long narrow blocks.
She shaped them like Minie-balls, that they mighttraverse unerringly to the cell of most dulcet digestion.
Our aim at first was to traverse the neve of Emmons Glacier and gain the less rugged slope bordering it on the south, but the intervening region was greatly broken and, as we found after several approaches to it, utterly impassable.
No, there is not one--not such a fool on earth were the enemy of mankind totraverse it with the offer!
Such a tragedy of dethroned reason is intolerably powerful; the dark labyrinths of insanity, the gloom-haunted passages of the human mind, are more terrible totraverse than the midnight windings of Gothic dungeons.
We may pass at will by the guardian of the narrow gate and traverse the regions of the Under-world.
Should any inmate of that mansion possess curiosity sufficient to induce him or her to cross the boundary, traverse my gardens, and approach the casements of my residence, that curiosity may be easily gratified.
It was Lord Glenarvan's intention to traverse Australia as he had traversed America, and he disembarked.
It was a magnificent bird, measuring ten feet from wing to wing, and which could traverse seas as wide as the Pacific.
Who can follow an animal which can traverse the sea of ice, and inhabit caves and dens where no man would venture to intrude?
Street car lines traverse the thoroughfares in all directions, and transport over two million passengers annually.
These natives were a constant source of danger to the more peaceful trading tribes, whom they would not permit to traverse their territory.
The ice lays such obstacles in the way that any one who has ever attempted to traverse it will not hesitate to declare it well-nigh impossible to advance in this manner with the equipment and provisions requisite for such an undertaking.
Carriages[1] and chariots[2] are repeatedly mentioned as being driven through the principal cities, and carts and waggons were accustomed to traverse the interior of the country.