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Updated: May 3, 2025
"I do," said Eve, "but is it not a vessel?" "It is; but a little to the right of that vessel, do you not perceive a hazy object at some elevation above the sea?" "The cloud, you mean a dim, ill-defined, dark body of vapour?" "So it may seem to you, but to me it appears to be the land. That is the bluff-like termination of the celebrated high lands of Navesink.
From the busy nomad camp, the trail seems to make a gradual ascent until, on the morning of April 30th, we arrive at the bluff-like termination of a rolling upland country, and behold! spread out below is the famous valley of Herat.
Or leave, if you will, the water-front at Hong Kong and make the hard climb up the steep, bluff-like, 1800-foot mountainside, dotted with the handsome residences of wealthy Englishmen: you can hardly believe that every massive timber, every ton of brick, every great foundation-stone was carried up, up from the town below, by the tug and strain of human muscle and not merely human muscle, but in most cases the muscles of women!
The land appeared to be elevated several feet above the level of the sea, at one end having a bold bluff-like termination, at the other shelving off in a gentle slope towards the water. It was principally upon the more elevated portion that the figures were seen, here standing in groups of three or four, and there moving about in twos, or singly.
Soon afterward a jagged bluff-like cloud with a sheer face appeared over the valley of the Yuba, dark-colored and roughened with numerous furrows like some huge lava-table. The blue Coast Range was seen stretching along the sky like a beveled wall, and the somber, craggy Marysville Buttes rose impressively out of the flooded plain like islands out of the sea.
Beyond these points no horses could be seen. The wash wound like a black ribbon out of sight. The vast sloping lines of valley swept majestically down from the wooded bluff-like sides. It was an austere, gray hollow of the earth, with all depressions and ridges blending beautifully into the soft gray-green dotted surface. Pan rode back to join his father.
Low-rolling ridges of gravel, clothed with pine and oak, came down along the river. The bank on the right rose higher, and, at a sharp angle in the stream, lifted itself into a bluff-like point. Opposite was the serpentine course of the Dead River, coiling through an open marsh-meadow.
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