 | John Wells Foster, Josiah Dwight Whitney - 1851 - 542 pages
...but it is not, until having reached Miners' river, that their striking peculiarities are observed. Here, the coast makes an abrupt turn to the eastward,...the friendly sand-beach begins, is seen one of the grainiest works of nature in her rock-built architecture. This is represented in Plate VIII., and,... | |
 | John Wells Foster, Josiah Dwight Whitney - 1850 - 520 pages
...but it is not, until having reached Miners' river, that their striking peculiarities are observed. Here, the coast makes an abrupt turn to the eastward,...grandest works of nature in her rock-built architecture. This is represented in Plate VIII., and, as we could not learn that it had received a distinctive appellation,... | |
 | John Wells Foster, Josiah Dwight Whitney - 1851 - 494 pages
...that their striking peculiarities are observed. Here, the coast makes an abrupt turn to the east ward, and just at the point where the rocks break off and...grandest works of nature in her rock-built architecture. This is represented in Plate VIII., and, as we could not learn that it had received a distinctive appellation,... | |
 | 1857 - 398 pages
...; but it is not until having reached Miners' River that their striking peculiarities are observed. Here the coast makes an abrupt turn to the eastward,...Miners' Castle," from its singular resemblance to the turre ted entrance and arched portal of some old castle—for instance, that of Dumbarton. The height... | |
 | 1886 - 746 pages
...shapes; but it is not until having reached Miners' River that their striking peculiarities are observed. Here the coast makes an abrupt turn to the eastward,...the point where the rocks break off and the friendly sand beach begins, is seen one of the grandest works of nature in her rock-built architecture. We gave... | |
 | 1886 - 740 pages
...; but it is not until having reached Miners' River that their striking peculiarities are observed. Here the coast makes an abrupt turn to the eastward,...the point where the rocks break off and the friendly sand beach begins, is seen one of tKe grandest works of nature in her rock-built architecture. We gave... | |
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... may be seen falling from the verge to the base in an unbroken curve, or gliding down the inclined face of the cliff in a sheet of white foam. The rocks at this point begin to assume fantastic shapes ; but it is not, until having reached Miners' river,... 