 River on the left, approach each other and seem to cut down into the very foundation of the mountain. The waters were rushing from beneath the glaciers, which, at their upper extremity were rent and broken into fissures and caverns of unknown depth. The...  Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London - Page 82by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) - 1867Full view - About this book
 | Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) - Electronic journals - 1867 - 862 pages
...knolls of sand. We soon reached the foot of a broad snow-field, which sweeps around the south side of the mountain, several miles in length, and extending...snows of ages, through the rents and chasms of which now escape smoke, steam and gases from the pent-up fires below. The fires are yet so near that many... | |
 | Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) - Electronic journals - 1867 - 302 pages
...snow the deep gorges, from which flow affluents of the streams Deschutes on the right and Sandy Eiver on the left, approach each other and seem to cut down...snows of ages, through the rents and chasms of which now escape smoke, steam and gases from the pent-up fires below. The fires are yet so near that many... | |
 | 1867 - 912 pages
...very foundations of the mountains. The waters were rushing from beneath the glaciers, which, at the upper extremity, were rent and broken into fissures...immense crater, which could not have been less than three railes in diameter. .lie southern wall has fallen completely away, and the crater itself is filled... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1868 - 822 pages
...River on the left, approach each other, near the upper edge of this field of snow, and seem to C4it down into the very foundation of the mountain. The...immense crater, which could not have been less than three miles in diameter. The southern wall of the crater has fallen completely away, and the crater... | |
 | Gustavus Hines - Oregon - 1868 - 338 pages
...the very foundations of the mountain. The waters are rushing from beneath the glaciers, which, at the upper extremity, were rent and broken into fissures...immense crater, which could not have been less than three miles in diameter. Its southern wall has fallen completely away, and the crater itself is filled... | |
 | Science - 1867 - 900 pages
...glaciers, which at their upper extremity were rent and broken into fissures and caverns of unknown depths. The present summit of the mountain is evidently what...immense crater, which could not have been less than three miles in diameter. The southern wall of the crater has fallen completely away, and the crater... | |
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