They had also evidently descended into the depths of the canon wherever there was the slightest break or even lowering in the upper line of basalt cliffs.

Scarlet hibiscus and perfumed frangipanni were everywhere, while climbing jasmine tried to cover up the black basalt rocks in the foreground as if to hide everything that was ugly from the eyes of the visitor.

It is an ovoid basalt stone of seventeen inches in height, by twenty-four in circumference.

The big clump of maupei, or Pacific chestnut, that we had taken as a landmark when we were running through the moonlit night, grew close to the barrier, and the limbs of several of the trees scraped the sides of the basalt columns as the faint night breeze moved them backward and forward.

The blood-red sun slipped hurriedly toward the basalt barriers that encircled the valley, and as I glanced at the cliffs the picture of the creepy ledge, that was our only way back to the outer world, was continually in my mind.

The country after leaving the basalt hills, where the valleys were well grassed, was barren and useless sand, gravel, and rock.

I do not remember that any other tribe of Plains Indians made such stone bowls or mortars, though, of course, they were commonly made, and in singular perfection, by the Pacific Coast tribes; and I have known of rare cases in which basalt mortars and small soapstone ollas have been found on the central plateau of the continent in southern Wyoming.

All the ice which I saw was good flat fjord-ice, and the plan seemed feasible enough; so after coasting about a little, and then three days' good rest in the tent at the bottom of a ravine of columnar basalt opening upon the shore, I packed some bear and walrus flesh, with what artificial food was left, into the kayak, and I set out early in the morning, coasting the shore-ice with sail and paddle.

Beneath the dark roof of evergreens the eucalyptus boles stood out, like basalt pillars, black against a background of burning flame.

Having ascertained that the party could be moved across the range to the basalt plains with advantage, commenced our return to the camp by a westerly route across the plain, which rose gently for ten miles, and was well grassed, but thinly wooded; the soil was stony, with fragments of altered sandstone and basalt.

Leith had the camp astir by daybreak, and after a hasty breakfast we trailed off behind Soma and the carriers, heading directly toward the basalt towers that rose up in the middle of the island.

" Holman looked around at the basalt walls that hemmed us in on both sides, and then glanced at the pit in front.

As compared with the dense diorite which was extensively used by the Incas, the basalt weathers far more rapidly.

On the summit of Brandon Hill stands a great stone circle, a ring of huge basalt blocks dominating the rich valleys and the surrounding plain.

The lines of the northern hills begin with the basalt buttresses of Antrim and the granite ribs of Down, and pass through northern Ulster and Connacht to the headlands of Mayo and Galway.

His face was like the carven face upon the basalt door; Her beauty could not charm him, her voice had lost its power; So she wrapped a veil about her and entreated him no more But sat alone and watched, from out her window in the tower.

Its form is conical, and the rock is composed of basalt feldspar with a small quantity of augite.