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Page 57
... stream ; others , that it is concealed near the warm springs , and that the jack - o ' - lanthorns which dance there mark the spot where silver is buried ; a third conjecture is , that the treasure was deposited in the bogs east of the ...
... stream ; others , that it is concealed near the warm springs , and that the jack - o ' - lanthorns which dance there mark the spot where silver is buried ; a third conjecture is , that the treasure was deposited in the bogs east of the ...
Page 63
... streams from the thawed snows , as they slide over them . Mr. Chambers , in passing this same tract of moor from a different direction , saw similar polishings , and at once put them down to glacial action , and the furrows caused by ...
... streams from the thawed snows , as they slide over them . Mr. Chambers , in passing this same tract of moor from a different direction , saw similar polishings , and at once put them down to glacial action , and the furrows caused by ...
Page 86
... stream flashing over its blackest bluff into the blue still lake at our feet , whose face is only ruffled by three drowsy swans floating in the shadow , like flakes of snow dropped from the mountain ledges . To the right , shoulders of ...
... stream flashing over its blackest bluff into the blue still lake at our feet , whose face is only ruffled by three drowsy swans floating in the shadow , like flakes of snow dropped from the mountain ledges . To the right , shoulders of ...
Page 95
... streams . Not a bird , nor insect , not a sound . I stood- " Alone , for other creature in this place , Living or lifeless , to be found was none . " Paradise Lost . In the foreground a cairn of rib and leg bones of horses , which have ...
... streams . Not a bird , nor insect , not a sound . I stood- " Alone , for other creature in this place , Living or lifeless , to be found was none . " Paradise Lost . In the foreground a cairn of rib and leg bones of horses , which have ...
Page 103
... stream , the surface is more even , but the edge is always shattered and bristling . Blow up West- minster Palace with gunpowder , and an Icelandic pony will trot over the ruins ; but the skirt of a lava - flood is an insur- mountable ...
... stream , the surface is more even , but the edge is always shattered and bristling . Blow up West- minster Palace with gunpowder , and an Icelandic pony will trot over the ruins ; but the skirt of a lava - flood is an insur- mountable ...
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