Bancroft's Tourist's Guide: Yosemite. San Francisco and Around the Bay, (south.)A. L. Bancroft, 1871 - 256 Seiten |
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Bancroft's Tourist's Guide: Yosemite; San Francisco and Around the Bay ... A. L. Bancroft And Company Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2018 |
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A. L. BANCROFT accommodations beach beautiful Big Trees blocks boat broad building Bush street Calaveras cañon cars Cave CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROAD centre church City Hall Cliff House coast corner Coulterville Crane Flat Creek dome east elegant excursions fall feet high feet long feet wide finest first-class five Folsom foot four furnished Golden Gate grand ground grove hackney carriage height hills horse hundred feet island Kearny Kearny street lake largest Mariposa Mariposa Grove Market street Mission Modesto Mokelumne Hill Montgomery street mountain nearer nearly north side occupies Ocean House Pacific PHRENOLOGY pier Point Potrero proprietor railroad ride Rincon Hill road rock rocky route Russian Hill Sacramento saddle San Francisco San José Sansome slope South Park southwest stage stands Stockton suburbs summit Sutter Telegraph Hill thence thousand three hundred tourist town trail visitor wall water front Yosemite Valley
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Seite 230 - Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and showeth him all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them; and saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.
Seite 200 - That for ways that are dark, And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar — Which the same I am free to maintain.
Seite 49 - That first full, deliberate gaze up the opposite height! Can I ever forget it? The valley is here scarcely half a mile wide, while its northern wall of mainly naked, perpendicular granite is at least four thousand feet high — probably more. But the modicum of moonlight that fell into this awful gorge gave to that precipice a vagueness of outline, an indefinite vastness, a ghostly and weird spirituality. Had the mountain spoken to me in audible voice, or began to lean over with the purpose of burying...
Seite 79 - It is completed with the most beautiful drapery of alabaster sterites, of all colors, varying from white to pink-red, overhanging the beholder. Immediately under the pulpit there is a beautiful lake of water, extending to an unknown distance. We thought this all, but, to our great admiration, on arriving at the centre of the first room, we saw an entrance to an inner chamber still more splendid, 200x100 feet, with most beautiful alabaster overhangings, in every possible shape of drapery.
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Seite 48 - Capitan, are of insignificant size compared with the dimensions of the solid wall itself. They are hardly noticeable in taking a general view of the valley. El Capitan imposes on us by its stupendous bulk, which seems as if hewed from the mountains on purpose to stand as the type of eternal massiveness. It is doubtful if anywhere in the world there is presented so squarely cut, so lofty, and so imposing a face of rock.
Seite 182 - But lo ! in the distance the clouds break away, The Gate's glowing portals I see ; And I hear from the outgoing ship in the bay The song of the sailors in glee. So I think of the luminous footprints that bore The comfort o'er dark Galilee, And wait for the signal to go to the shore, To the ship that is waiting for me.
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Seite 182 - As I stand by the cross on the lone mountain's crest, Looking over the ultimate sea, In the gloom of the mountain a ship lies at rest, And one sails away from the lea: One spreads its white wings on a far-reaching track, With pennant and sheet flowing free; One hides in the shadow with sails laid aback, — The ship that is waiting for me! But lo, in the distance the clouds break away! The Gate's glowing portals I see; And I hear from the outgoing ship in the bay The song of the sailors in glee:...