Appleton's Illustrated Hand-book of American Winter Resorts for Tourists and InvalidsD. Appleton, 1877 |
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Pagina 90 - Mississippi is that of solemn gloom. I have trodden the passes of Alp and Appenine, yet never felt how awful a thing is nature, till I was borne on its waters, through regions desolate and uninhabitable. Day after day, and night after night, we continued driving right downward to the south; our vessel, like some huge demon of the wilderness, bearing fire in her bosom, and canopying the eternal forest with the smoke of her nostrils.
Pagina 11 - Don Ferdinand the VI, being King of Spain, and the Field Marshal Don Alonzo Fernando Hereda, being. Governor and Captain General of this place, St. Augustine of Florida, and its province, this Fort was finished in the year 1756. The works were directed by the Captain Engineer, Don Pedro de Brozas y Garay.
Pagina 90 - I do not now speak of the risk of explosion, which is very considerable, but of a peril arising from what are called planters and sawyers. These are trees firmly fixed in the bottom of the river, by which vessels are in danger of being impaled.
Pagina 8 - Windsor is more magnificent and commodious, and contains more real comforts than any other Hotel in America. Its location is delightful, being surrounded by the most fashionable residences in New York ; it is also near the famous Central Park, and within three minutes' walk of the Grand Central Railway Station.
Pagina 75 - Park is filled with fantastic groups of eroded sandstone, perhaps the most unique in the Western country, where there are so many evidences of Nature's curious whims. If one should imagine a great number of gigantic sugar-loaves, quite irregular in shape, but all showing the tapering form, varying in height from 6 feet to nearly 50, with each loaf capped by a dark, flat stone, not unlike in shape to a college-student's hat, he would have a very clear idea of the columns in Monument Park. They are...
Pagina 15 - The banks are low and flat, but bordered with a wealth of exquisite foliage to be seen nowhere else upon this continent. One passes for hundreds of miles through a grand forest of cypresses robed in moss and mistletoe; of palms towering gracefully far above the surrounding trees, of...