It rose, according to our estimate, 600 feet above the water, and, from the point we viewed it, presented a pretty exact outline of the great pyramid of Cheops. Like other rocks along the shore, it seemed to be incrusted with calcareous cement. This striking... The American Monthly Review of Reviews - Página 451editado por - 1901Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| John Charles Frémont - 1840 - 290 páginas
...pyramid of Cheops. Like other rocks along the shore, it seemed to be incrusted with calcareous cement. This striking^ feature suggested a name for the lake; and I called it Pyramid lake ; and though it may be deemed by some a fanciful resemblance, I can undertake to say that the future... | |
| John Charles Frémont - 1845 - 766 páginas
...it as we saw it. Like other rocks along the shore, it seemed to be incrusted with calcareous cement. This striking feature suggested a name for the lake; and I called it Pyramid lake ; and though it may be deemed by some a fanciful resemblance, I can undertake to say that the future... | |
| John Charles Frémont - 1849 - 478 páginas
...pyramid of Cheops. Like other rocks along the shore, it seemed to be incrusted with calcareous cement. This striking feature suggested a name for the lake, and I called it Pyramid Lake ; and though it may be deemed by some a fanciful resemblance, I can undertake to say that the future... | |
| John Charles Frémont - 1850 - 472 páginas
...pyramid of Cheops. Like other rocks along the shore, it seemed to be incrusted with calcareous cement. This striking feature suggested a name for the lake, and I called it Pyramid Lake ; and though it may be deemed by some a fanciful resemblance, I can undertake to say that the future... | |
| John Charles Frémont - 1850 - 476 páginas
...of Cheops. Like other rocks along the shore, it seemed to be incrusted with calcareous cement. Tin's striking feature suggested a name for the lake, and I called it Pyramid Lake ; and though it may be deemed by some a fanciful resemblance, I can undertake to say that the future... | |
| 1851 - 278 páginas
...pyramid of Cheops. Like other rocks along the shore, it seemed to be encrusted with calcareous cement. This striking feature suggested a name for the lake, and I called it Pyramid Lake. Its elevation above the sea is 4890 feet, being nearly 700 feet higher than the Great Salt Lake, from... | |
| Charles Wentworth Upham - 1856 - 428 páginas
...pyramid of Cheops. Like other rocks along the shore, it seemed to be incrusted with calcareous cement. This striking feature suggested a name for the lake; and I called it Pyramid Lake. " January 29. The other division of the party did not come in to-night, but encamped in the tipper... | |
| John Charles Frémont, Samuel Mosheim Smucker - 1856 - 536 páginas
...pyramid of Cheops. Like other rocks along the shore, it seemed to be incrusted with calcareous cement. This striking feature suggested a name for the lake, and I called it Pyramid Lake ; and though it may be deemed by some a fanciful resemblance, I can undertake to say that the future... | |
| John C. Van Tramp - 1858 - 678 páginas
...pyramid of Cheops. Like other rocks along the shore, it seemed to be incrasted with calcareous cement. This striking feature suggested a name for the lake, and I called it Pyramid Lake ; and though it may be deemed by some a fancifnl resemblance, I can undertake to say that the future... | |
| John C. Van Tramp - 1866 - 710 páginas
...pyramid of Cheops. Like other rocks along the shore, it seemed to be incrusted with calcareous cement. This striking feature suggested a name for the lake, and I called it Pyramid Lake ; and though it may be deemed bj some a fanciful resemblance, I can undertake to sny that the future... | |
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