 | American literature - 1860 - 1002 pages
...in breadth varying from thirty to thirty-five miles, and sprinkled by the crisp east wind with tiny crescents of snowy foam. The back-ground in front...yawning chasms, marked by a deeper plum-color, fall towards dwarf hills of mound-like proportions, which apparently dip their feet in the wave. To the... | |
 | William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1861 - 642 pages
...in breadth varying from thirty to thirty-five miles, and sprinkled by the crisp east wind with tiny crescents of snowy foam. The background in front is a high and broken wall of steel-coloured mountain, here flecked and capped with pearly mist, there standing sharply pencilled... | |
 | Josiah Tyler - Africa - 1873 - 812 pages
...in breadth varying from thirty to thirty-five miles, and sprinkled by the crisp east wind with tiny crescents of snowy foam. The background in front is...sharply penciled against the azure air; its yawning chasm,/ marked by a deeper plum-color, fall toward dwarf hills o,T mound-like proportions, which apparently... | |
 | Charles H. Jones - Africa - 1875 - 582 pages
...in breadth varying from thirty to thirty -five miles, and sprinkled by the crisp cast wind with tiny crescents of snowy foam. The background in front is...and capped with pearly mist, there standing sharply pencilled against the azure air ; its yawning chasms, marked by a deeper plum-color, fall toward dwarf... | |
 | J. E. Chambliss - Africa, Central - 1876 - 886 pages
...i;i breadth varying from thirty to thirty-five miles, and sprinkhxl by the crisp east wind with tiny crescents of snowy foam. The background in front is...steel-colored mountain, here flecked and capped with pearly mists, there standing sharply pencilled against the azure air ; its yawning chasms marked by a deeper... | |
 | Africa - 1876 - 850 pages
...in breadth varying from thirty to thirty-five miles, and sprinkled by the crisp east wind with tiny crescents of snowy foam. The background in front is...sharply penciled against the azure air ; its yawning chasm, marked by a deeper plum-color, fall toward dwarf hills of mound-like proportions, which apparently... | |
 | John Small - Curiosities and wonders - 1876 - 646 pages
...in breadth varying from thirty to thirty-five miles, and sprinkled by the crisp east wind with tiny crescents of snowy foam. The background in front is a high and broken wall of steelcoloured mountain, here flecked and capped with pearly mist, there standing sharply pencilled... | |
 | Africa, Central - 1878 - 496 pages
...in breadth varying from thirty to thirty-five miles, and sprinkled by the crisp east wind with tiny crescents of snowy foam. The background in front is...and capped with pearly mist, there standing sharply pencilled against the azure air ; its yawning chasms, marked by a deeper plum-color, fall toward dwarf... | |
 | J. E. Chambliss - Africa, Central - 1881 - 778 pages
...in breadth varying from thirty to thirty-five miles, and sprinkled by the crisp ea?t wind with tiny crescents of snowy foam. The background in front is...steel-colored mountain, here flecked and capped with pearly mists, there standing sharply pencilled against the azure air ; its yawning chasms marked by a deeper... | |
 | Francis Hitchman - Authors, English - 1887 - 510 pages
...in breadth varying from thirty to thirty-five miles, and sprinkled by the crisp east wind with tiny crescents of snowy foam. The background in front is a high and broken wall of steel-coloured mountain, here flecked and capped with pearly mist, there standing sharply pencilled... | |
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Farther in front stretch the waters, an expanse of the lightest and softest blue, in breadth varying from thirty to thirty-five miles, and sprinkled by the crisp east wind with tiny crescents of snowy foam. 
