That was the programme we had arranged for the Hole-in-the-Ground Theater, as the Canadians called their amphitheater.

Wetherill worked around to circle the huge amphitheater.

The description of "the odd-looking personages playing at nine-pins" whom he finds on entering the amphitheater, is a perfect picture in words; for the truly great writer is a painter of pictures quite as much as the great artist.

At the time of this interesting discovery I was exploring the névé amphitheaters of the group, and tracing the courses of the ancient glaciers that once poured from its ample fountains through the Illilouette Basin and the Yosemite Valley, not expecting to find any active glaciers so far south in the land of sunshine.

When the climatic changes came on that caused the melting and retreat of the main glacier that filled the amphitheater, a series of residual glaciers were left in the cliff shadows, under the protection of which they lingered, until they formed the moraines we are studying.

It is in this part of the building that we find the amphitheater of physics and chemistry and the laboratories.

The country at the extreme head of Blue River forms a great mountain amphitheater, with one side so near the upper course of Black River that one can traverse the distance between the basins of the two streams in a short ride.

"Oh, we've got a real amphitheater for you, such as the Greeks used for the tragedies of Sophocles!"

Near the Greek Theater, which pushes its vast amphitheater into the heart of the hills, winds a cañon, not large and imposing, but very beautiful.

Hills rise on hills An amphitheater, whose lofty top, The spreading oak, or stately poplar crowns Whose ever-varying sides present such scenes Smooth or precipitousharmonious still Mild or sublime,as wake the poet's lay; Nor aught is wanting to delight the sense;

We had to work round a wide amphitheater, and up a steep corner to the top.