desert-margined

Updated: May 16, 2025

To-morrow you will be ferried over Green River, as near its source, a stream whose cradle is in the same snow-peaks as the Platte, whose mysterious middle-life, under the new name of the Colorado, flows at the bottom of those tremendous fissures, three thousand feet deep, which have become the wonder of the geologist, whose grave, when it has dribbled itself away into the dotage of shallows and quicksands, is the desert-margined Gulf of California and the Pacific Sea.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864