| Church missionary society - 1863 - 614 pages
...long delays, struck the new lake on March 14th, 1864. There it lay, a "great expanse of water— ft boundless sea horizon on the south and south-west,...glittering in the noon-day sun ; and on the west, at fifty or sixty miles distance, blue mountains rose from the bosom of the lake to a height of about... | |
| Church missionary society - 162 pages
...sighted the lake, in March 1864 — ," there like a sea of quicksilver lay, far beneath, the great expanse of water, a boundless sea horizon on the south and south-west, glittering in the noon-day sun ; while on the west, at fifty or sixty miles distance, blue mountains rose from the bosom of the lake... | |
| 1865 - 398 pages
...incredible hardships and long delays, struck the new lake on March 14th, 1864. There it lay, a "great expanse of water — a boundless sea horizon on the...glittering in the noon-day sun ; and on the west, at fifty or sixty miles distance, blue mountains rose from the bosom of the lake to a height of about... | |
| Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1866 - 730 pages
...risen when I was spurring my ox after my guide, who having been promised a double handful of beads on arrival at the lake, had caught the enthusiasm...quicksilver, lay far beneath the grand expanse of water, a boundless1 sea horizon on the south and south-west glittering in the noon-day sun ; and on the west,... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1866 - 818 pages
...valley between the hills, we toiled up the opposite slope. I hurried to the summit. The glory of our prize burst suddenly upon me ! There, like a sea of...glittering in the noonday sun ; and on the west, at fifty or sixty miles' distance, blue mountains rose from the bosom of the lake to a height of about... | |
| 1866 - 802 pages
...valley between the hills, we toiled up the opposite slope. I hurried to the summit. The glory of our prize burst suddenly upon me ! There, like a sea of...glittering in the noonday sun ; and on the west, at fifty or sixty miles' distance, blue mountams rose from the bosom of the lake to a height of about... | |
| 1866 - 586 pages
...valley between the hills, we toiled up the opposite slope. I hurried to the summit. The glory of our prize burst suddenly upon me ! There, like a sea of...glittering in the noon-day sun ; and on the west, at fifty or sixty miles' distance, blue mountains rose from the bosom of the lake to a height of about... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1866 - 750 pages
...valley between the hills, we toiled up the opposite slope. I hurried to tho summit. The glory of our prize burst suddenly upon me ! There, like a sea of...glittering in the noon-day sun ; and on the west, at fifty or sixty miles' distance, blue mountains rose from tho bosom of the lako to a height of about... | |
| Anonymous - 1866 - 588 pages
...toiled up the opposite slope. I hurried to the summit. The glory of our prize burst suddenly upon mo ! There, like a sea of quicksilver, lay far beneath...glittering in the noon-day sun ; and on the west, at fifty or sixty miles' distance, blue mountains rose from the bosom of the lake to a height of about... | |
| 1866 - 848 pages
...val ley between the hills, we toiled up the opposite slope. I hurried to the summit. The glory of f\a prize burst suddenly upon me ! There, like a sea of...horizon on the south and south-west, glittering in tho noon-day sun ; and on the west, at fifty or sixty miles distance, blue mountains rose from the... | |
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