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Or an up-slope from the north would end in a long, nearly perpendicular cliff-line facing south. And the talus formation which I have mentioned would be perfectly smooth; but it did not reach quite to the top of the cliff, maybe to within a foot of it.
A valley-wide mirage shone clear as a mirror along the desert floor to the west, strange, deceiving, a thing both unreal and beautiful. The Panamints towered a wrinkled red grisly mass, broken by rough canyons, with long declines of talus like brown glaciers. Seamed and scarred! Indestructible by past ages, yet surely wearing to ruin! From this point I could not see the snow on the peaks.
In his tragedy, the dramatis personae are like so many statues "stept from their pedestal to take the air." They come on the stage only to utter pompous sentiments of morality, turgid declamation, and frigid similes. Yet there is throughout, that strength of language, that heavy mace of words, with which, as with the flail of Talus, Johnson lays every thing prostrate before him.
«Une particularité qui a attiré souvent mon attention dans toutes ces contrées, c'est que toutes les montagnes aupres desquelles je passois, et qui sont au pied et au dehors de la grande Cordelière, me paroissoient avoir eu une origine toute différente de celles que j'avois vues auparavant. Les lits de différentes terres et le plus souvent de rochers dont elles étoient formées, n'étoient pas inclinés de divers côtés, comme dans les autres: ils étoient parfaitement horizontaux, et je les voyois quelquefois se répandre fort loin dans les différentes montagnes. La plupart de celle-ci ont deux ou trois cent toises de hauteur, et elles sont presque toutes inaccessibles; elles sont souvent escarpées comme des murailles: c'est ce qui permet de mieux voir leurs lits horizontaux dont elles présentent l'extrémité. Le spectacle qu'elles fournissent n'est pas riant, mais il est rare et singulier. Lorsque le hazard a voulu que quelqu'une fût ronde, et qu'elle se trouvât absolument détachée des autres; chacun de ses lits est devenu comme un cylindre très-plat, ou comme un cône tronqué qui n'a que très-peu de hauteur; et ces différens lits placés les uns au-dessus des autres, et distingués par leurs couleurs et par les divers talus de leur contour, ont souvent donné au tout la forme d'ouvrage artificiel et fait avec la plus grande régularité. Il est une de ces montagnes
The former is nearer to the river. It is capped with the white sandstone, and is so closely sculptured that white fragments have fallen upon the sloping red talus beneath. The whole appearance is not unlike a giant hat of an Arab, with its streaming folds of white reaching far over the neck down the back.
One apparently solid projection as big as my head came away at the first touch, and went bouncing off into space. Finally I stood, or rather sprawled, almost within arm's length of a tiny scrub pine growing solidly in a crevice just over the talus. Once there, our troubles were over; but there seemed no way of crossing.
Until the year 1852, the opening into this grotto was masked by a talus of small fragments of limestone and earthy matter e, such as the rain may have washed down the slope of the hill.
A labyrinth of huge architectural forms, endlessly varied in design, fretted with ornamental devices, festooned with lace-like webs formed of talus from the upper cliffs, and painted with every color known to the palette in pure transparent tones of marvellous delicacy. Never was picture more harmonious, never flower more exquisitely beautiful.
At the Casa Blanca ruin, 7 miles up the canyon, the bench is 8 or 10 feet above the stream. Each little branch canyon and deep cove in the cliffs is fronted by a more or less extended area of this cultivable bottom land. Ten miles up the talus has become a prominent feature.
About 60 feet west, on the same ledge, there are remains of other rooms which rested probably on the talus. Several rooms can be made out, but only one shows standing walls. This is on the western end, and the walls are now about 5
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