The Pacific Tourist: An Illustrated Guide to the Pacific R.r., California and Pleasure Resorts Across the ContinentAdams & Bishop, 1879 - 372 страници |
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Страница 124 - The sky is changed! — and such a change! Oh, night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet, lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder!
Страница 162 - Rivers; thence east to the place of beginning, is hereby reserved and withdrawn from settlement, occupancy, or sale under the laws of the United States, and dedicated and set apart as a public park or pleasuring ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people...
Страница 152 - State of Michigan, This is to notify him and the church in general that he has been cut off from the church for his iniquity...
Страница 43 - California in thirteen days" was repeated everywhere as a remarkable achievement. The first company organized was formed in California in 1858 or 1859, under the name of the Central Overland California and Pike's Peak Express. At that time, with no telegraph or even stage line across the continent, this attempt was considered extraordinarily audacious. The services planned and executed by the company were a pony express, with stations sixty miles apart, the entire distance from St.Joseph, Mo., to...
Страница 182 - Promontory Point: All ready now; the spike will soon be driven. The signal will be three dots for the commencement of the blows. For a moment the instrument was silent, and then the hammer of the magnet tapped the bell, one, two, three, the signal. Another pause of a few seconds, and the lightning came flashing eastward...
Страница 342 - Angeles ("Town of the Queen of the Angels"). From every point of the city the panorama is grand, especially when the Sierra Madre Mountains are in the background. It is the railroad center of Southern California, and has already roads extending in five directions. It is the seat of a Roman Catholic bishop, and has a cathedral which is the finest church building outside of San Francisco. The several prominent Protestant denominations have organizations, including the Methodist, Presbyterian, and Episcopal....
Страница 156 - The first part of the plain consisted simply of dried mud, with small crystals of salt scattered thickly over the surface. Crossing this, we came upon another portion of it, three miles in width, where the ground was entirely covered with a thin layer of salt in a state of deliquescence, and of so soft a consistence that the feet of our mules sank at every step into the mud beneath. But we soon came upon a portion of the plain where the salt lay in a solid state, in one unbroken sheet, extending...
Страница 13 - West, in those localities where the benefits of its construction were manifest, was excessive, and it will be remembered that laborers even demanded their pay before they would perform their day's work, so little faith had they in the payment of their wages, or in the ability of the company to succeed in their efforts. Probably no enterprise in the world has been so maligned, misrepresented and criticised as this; but now, after the calm judgment of the...
Страница 90 - ... turn round and steal all your horses, or ary other thing he could lay his hands on. No, not adzackly. He would feel kinder grateful, and ask you to spread a blanket in his lodge ef you ever passed that a- way.
Страница 152 - Wherefore, my brethren, hear me, and hearken to the word of the Lord ; for there shall not any man among you have save it be one wife ; and concubines he shall have none; for I, the Lord God, delighteth in the chastity of women.