A totally different class has now sprung up:--"the Mountaineers," the traders and trappers that scale the vast mountain chains, and pursue their hazardous vocations amidst their wild recesses.
A difference is to be perceived even between these mountain hunters and those of the lower regions along the waters of the Missouri.
Sticking his spurs into his horse he made a rush at the mountain, and got up half-way, then he calmly turned his horse's head and came down again without a slip or stumble.
The beast shied, opened its wide nostrils and tossed its mane, then rearing high up in the air, its hind feet slipped and it fell with its rider down the steep mountain side.
Watson has recently remarked, 'In receding from polar towards equatorial latitudes, the Alpine or
mountain floras really become less and less arctic.' Many of the forms living on the
mountains of the warmer regions of the earth and in the southern hemisphere are of doubtful value, being ranked by some naturalists as specifically distinct, by others as varieties; but some are certainly identical, and many, though closely related to northern forms, must be ranked as distinct species.
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Mountains.- Haunts of Predatory Indians.- Their Wild and Broken Appearance.- Superstitions Concerning Them - Thunder Spirits.- Singular Noises in the Mountains- Secret Mines.-Hidden Treasures.-
Mountains in Labor.
As they approached the
mountain there were signs of a greater abundance of water.
What this incomparable
mountain really is, with all the projections converging toward it, and the interior excrescences of its crater, photography itself could never represent.
Thus spake Zarathustra on the ridge of the
mountain where it was cold: when, however, he came into the vicinity of the sea, and at last stood alone amongst the cliffs, then had he become weary on his way, and eagerer than ever before.
The valley, at the point where it enters the first Cordillera, is bounded on each side by lofty barren
mountains; and although not broad, it is very fertile.
"Ah; who is that coming down the
mountain?" asked the Nome, gazing upward.
The house occupied by the family was on the slope of a
mountain, and after a long drought there was a terrible tempest which not only raised the river to a great height but loosened the surface of the
mountain so that a great landslide took place.
