 The day broke beautifully clear, and having crossed a deep valley between the hills, we toiled up the opposite slope. I hurried to the summit. The glory of our prize burst suddenly upon me ! There, like a sea of quicksilver, lay far beneath the grand...  Heroes of Britain in peace and war - Page 217by Edwin Hodder - 1878Full view - About this book
 | Church missionary society - 1863 - 614 pages
...long delays, struck the new lake on March 14th, 1864. There it lay, a "great expanse of water— ft boundless sea horizon on the south and south-west,...mountains rose from the bosom of the lake to a height of about 7000 feet above its level." THE SOURCES OF THE NILE. 99 Entrusting themselves to rnde canoes,... | |
 | Church missionary society - 162 pages
...sighted the lake, in March 1864 — ," there like a sea of quicksilver lay, far beneath, the great expanse of water, a boundless sea horizon on the south and south-west, glittering in the noon-day sun ; while on the west, at fifty or sixty miles distance, blue mountains rose from the bosom of the lake... | |
 | Missions - 1865 - 398 pages
...incredible hardships and long delays, struck the new lake on March 14th, 1864. There it lay, a "great expanse of water — a boundless sea horizon on the...mountains rose from the bosom of the lake to a height of about 700O feet above its level." THE SOURCES OF THE KILE. 99 Entrusting themselves to rude canoes,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1866 - 818 pages
...toiled up the opposite slope. I hurried to the summit. The glory of our prize burst suddenly upon me ! There, like a sea of quicksilver, lay far beneath...mountains rose from the bosom of the lake to a height of about seven thousand feet above its level. " It is impossible to describe the triumph of that moment... | |
 | English literature - 1866 - 586 pages
...toiled up the opposite slope. I hurried to the summit. The glory of our prize burst suddenly upon me ! There, like a sea of quicksilver, lay far beneath...mountains rose from the bosom of the lake to a height of about 7000 feet above its level. - ~^ ' It is impossible to describe the triumph of that moment ; here... | |
 | Anonymous - History - 1866 - 588 pages
...toiled up the opposite slope. I hurried to the summit. The glory of our prize burst suddenly upon mo ! There, like a sea of quicksilver, lay far beneath...mountains rose from the bosom of the lake to a height of about 7000 feet above its level. ' It is impossible to describe the triumph of that moment ; here was... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1866 - 750 pages
...toiled up the opposite slope. I hurried to tho summit. The glory of our prize burst suddenly upon me ! There, like a sea of quicksilver, lay far beneath...or sixty miles' distance, blue mountains rose from tho bosom of the lako to a height of about 7000 feet above its level. ' It is impossible to describe... | |
 | Literature - 1866 - 802 pages
...toiled up the opposite slope. I hurried to the summit. The glory of our prize burst suddenly upon me ! There, like a sea of quicksilver, lay far beneath...the west, at fifty or sixty miles' distance, blue mountams rose from the bosom of the lake to a height of about 7,000 feet above its level. " It is impossible... | |
 | 1866 - 848 pages
...toiled up the opposite slope. I hurried to the summit. The glory of f\a prize burst suddenly upon me ! There, like a sea of quicksilver, lay far beneath...horizon on the south and south-west, glittering in tho noon-day sun ; and on the west, at fifty or sixty miles distance, blue mountains rose from the... | |
 | African Americans - 1866 - 404 pages
...up the opposite slope. I hurried up to the summit. The glory of our prize burst suddenly upon me ! There, like a sea of quick-silver, lay far beneath the grand expanse of water, — -a boundless sea-horizon on the south and south-west, glittering in the noon-day sun ; and on the west at fifty... | |
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