In this new plan the summit level was placed above the flood line of the Chagres River, to be supplied with water from that stream by pumps.

Even the summit-peaks, so clear and high in the sky, seem comparatively smooth and featureless.

Jerusalem is built on the summit ridge of the hill-country of Palestine, just where it begins to slope eastward.

The South Lyell glacier eroded this magnificent basin out of solid porphyritic granite while forcing its way westward from the summit fountains toward Yosemite, and the exposed rocks around the shores, and the projecting bosses of the walls, ground and burnished beneath the vast ice-flood, still glow with silvery radiance, notwithstanding the innumerable corroding storms that have fallen upon them.

I find our summit ration is even too filling for the present.

Looking from the last camp towards the S.S.E., where the farthest land can be seen, it seemed more than probable that a very high latitude could be reached on the Barrier, and if Amundsen journeying that way has a stroke of luck, he may well find his summit journey reduced to 100 miles or so.

Suppressing my fears, I soon discovered that although as hairy as bears and as crooked as summit pines, the strange creatures were sufficiently erect to belong to our own species.

High on the south, huge Benvenue Down to the lake in masses threw Crags, knolls, and mounds, confusedly hurled, The fragments of an earlier world; A wildering forest feathered o'er His ruined sides and summit hoar.

He shook his head with a groan, stood up, and strode out of the timber into the summit lands.

From the wavy summit line of the bluffs, the ground slopes in an irregular broken way back to the northeast and east, into a coulee that forms the passage to the ford which Custer aimed for and never reached.

To-morrow we start with our fullest summit load, and the first march should show us the possibilities of our achievement.

At summer eve, when Heaven's ethereal bow Spans with bright arch the glittering hills below, Why to yon mountain turns the musing eye, Whose sunbright summit mingles with the sky?

The light of day Still loves to stay And round that pearly summit play; How fair a sight That realm of light, Contended for by Day and Night!

Soon after leaving Cheyenne, we commence the ascent of the Rockiesnot, of course, the actual summit range itself, but the foot hills and high lands stretching away from, and forming part of itand as we climb the ascent terminating at Sherman, where we have gained an elevation of 8,247 feet, we pass through very wild, grand scenery.

Could you in what you so affect The utmost summit reach; Beyond what fondest friends expect, Or skilful'st masters teach: The skill you learn'd would not repay The time and pains it cost, Youth's precious season thrown away, And reading-leisure lost.

These mark the halting-places of the vanished glacier when it was retreating into its summit shadows on the breaking-up of the glacial winter.

Purification waited for him among the summit snows.

The Express had entered the yards at the summit station, and was gradually lessening its speed.

In front of the archway that gives entrance to the first inclosure of the abbey stretches a long avenue of poplars so tall that when their branches are stirred by the evening breeze their summits touch and form an immense arch of verdure.

I'm inclined to think that the summit trouble will be mostly due to the chill falling on sunburned skins.

A magnificent avenue of beech trees leads to Micheldever village, and also, in the opposite direction to the station, to that point on the South Western Railway where the traveller to Southampton notes that the exhausted pant of the engine has changed to an easy glide as the train passes the summit tunnel and rolls down to Winchester.

A little in front of a headland, formed by the summit walls of two meeting valleys, rises a mass of rocks one hundred feet high, cut into sepulchral chambers, story above story, with the traces of steps between them, leading to others still higher.

For just the belting trees within, I saw my father wait; And should the waves the summit win, I would go through the gate.

The summit limestone-beds are pale yellow; next below these are the beautiful rose-colored cross-bedded sandstones; next there are a thousand feet of brilliant red sandstones; and below these the red wall limestones, over two thousand feet thick, rich massy red, the greatest and most influential of the series, and forming the main color-fountain.

Oates' nose is always on the point of being frostbitten; Meares has a refractory toe which gives him much troublethis is the worst prospect for summit work.