 ... feet above the lake. Standing on the summit, we enjoyed an extended view of the lake, enclosed in a basin of rugged mountains, which sometimes left marshy flats and extensive bottoms between them and the shore, and in other places came directly down...  Stories of Discovery Told by Discovers... - Page 240by E. E. Hale - 1882 - 290 pagesFull view - About this book
 | United States. Congress. House - 898 pages
...mountains, which sometimes left marshy flats and extensive bottoms between them and (he shore, and in other places came directly down into the water with bold...a communication with other bodies of water, or the enirance of other rivers ; but the distance was so great, that we could make out nothing with certainty.... | |
 | John Charles Frémont - 1845 - 286 pages
...mountains, which sometimes left marshy flats and extensive bottoms between them and the shore, and in other places came directly down into the water with bold...certainty. To the southward, several peninsular mountains, 3,000 or 4,000 feet high, entered the lake, appearing, so far as the distance and our position enabled... | |
 | John Charles Frémont - 1845 - 820 pages
...mountains, which sometimes left marshy flats.and extensive bottoms between them and the shore, and in other places came directly down into the water with bold...certainty. To the southward, several peninsular mountains, 3,000 or 4,000 feet high, entered the lake, appearing, so far as the distance and our position enabled... | |
 | John Charles Frémont - 1840 - 290 pages
...the shore, and in other places came directly down into the water with bold and precipitous blutfs. Following with our glasses the irregular shores, we...certainty. To the southward, several peninsular mountains, 3,000 or 4,000 feet high, entered the lake, appearing, so far as the distance and our position enabled... | |
 | John Charles Frémont - 1845 - 814 pages
...which sometimes -left marshy flats and extensive bottoms between them and the shore, and in oth«i places came directly down into the water with bold...glasses the irregular shores, we searched for some indication? of a communication with other bodies of water, or the entrance of other rivers ; but the... | |
 | John Charles Frémont - 1846 - 326 pages
...mountains, which sometimes left marshy flats and extensive bottoms between them and the shore, and in other places came directly down into the water with bold...nothing with certainty. To the southward, several pen insulaf mountains, 3,000 or 4,000 feet high, entered the lake, appearing, so far as the distance... | |
 | 1846 - 708 pages
...mountains, which sometimes left marshy Hats, and extensive bottoms between them and the shore, and in other places came directly down into the water with bold...great that we could make out nothing with certainty." The lake is supposed to be a hundred miles in diameter, the shape of a horse bean, and is a slightly-curved... | |
 | Robert Smith - 1846 - 434 pages
...the shore, and in other places came directly down into the water, with bold and precipitous blurts. Following with our glasses the irregular shores, we...the southward, several peninsular mountains, three or four thousand feet high, entered the lake, appearing, so far as the distance and our position enabled... | |
 | John Charles Frémont - 1846 - 200 pages
...mountains, which sometimes left marshy flats and extensive bottoms between them and the shore, and in other places came directly down into the water with bold...irregular shores, we searched for some indications of a communicationWith other bodies of water, or the entrance of other rivers ; but the distance was so... | |
 | John Charles Frémont - 1849 - 478 pages
...mountains, which sometimes left marshy flats and extensive bottoms between them and the shore, and in other places came directly down into the water with bold...certainty. To the southward, several peninsular mountains, 3,000 or 4,000 feet high, entered the lake, appear, ing, so far as the distance and our position enabled... | |
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