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... rise , from which one can see the whole length of Mud Lake lying in the valley below . I was fearful that the swans , whose business was to be off , would not have stayed for us , but they had . In the distance we saw them strung out in ...
... rise , from which one can see the whole length of Mud Lake lying in the valley below . I was fearful that the swans , whose business was to be off , would not have stayed for us , but they had . In the distance we saw them strung out in ...
Page 55
... rise in the morning ; during the day they glance up at it from time to time without thinking much about it ; and at evening , in the last light , they try to hold it with their eyes from the effacing blackness . Waking on a moonless ...
... rise in the morning ; during the day they glance up at it from time to time without thinking much about it ; and at evening , in the last light , they try to hold it with their eyes from the effacing blackness . Waking on a moonless ...
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... rise , as before San Gorgonio . San Jacinto comes right out of the desert floor , all ten and a half thousand feet of him above ground , for the desert at Palm Springs has only about four hundred feet of elevation . This sud- den lift ...
... rise , as before San Gorgonio . San Jacinto comes right out of the desert floor , all ten and a half thousand feet of him above ground , for the desert at Palm Springs has only about four hundred feet of elevation . This sud- den lift ...
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