 Ktaadn presented a different aspect from any mountain I have seen, there being a greater proportion of naked rock rising abruptly from the forest; and we looked up at this blue barrier as if it were some fragment of a wall which anciently bounded the...  The Writings of Henry David Thoreau - Pagina 75door Henry David Thoreau - 1894Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Charles Alden John Farrar - 1880 - 250 pagina’s
...then be close at hand. Seen from this point, a bare ridge at the extremity of the open land, Katahdin presented a different aspect from any mountain I have seen, there being a greater portion of naked rock rising abruptly from the forest ; and we looked up at this blue barrier as if... | |
 | Charles Alden John Farrar - 1884 - 252 pagina’s
...then be close at hand. Seen from this point, a bare ridge at the extremity of the open land, Katahdin presented a different aspect from any mountain I have seen, there being a greater portion of naked rock rising abruptly from the forest ; and we looked up at this blue barrier as if... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 464 pagina’s
...through burnt lands, now partially overgrown with young aspens and other shrubbery; but soon, recrossing this stream, where it was about fifty or sixty feet...course, which was the bearing of the southern base oi the highest peak, we were soon buried in the woods. We soon began to meet with traces of bears and... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1909 - 128 pagina’s
...country, and climb directly up the peak, which would then be close at hand. Seen from this point, Katahdin presented a different aspect from any mountain I have...direction. Setting the compass for a northeast course, we were soon buried in the woods. We soon began to meet with traces of bear and moose, and those of... | |
 | Max Oelschlaeger - 1991 - 506 pagina’s
...proposed route of ascent), he was rewarded with his best view yet, one unlike any he had seen before. "Ktaadn presented a different aspect from any mountain...which anciently bounded the earth in that direction." From this point the party almost immediately lost sight of the peak, being "buried in the woods."38... | |
 | Larry Luxenberg - 1994 - 276 pagina’s
...short), he wrote, "Seen from this point, a bare ridge at the extremity of the open land, Ktaadn [sic] presented a different aspect from any mountain I have...proportion of naked rock rising abruptly from the forest." He found it "certainly the most treacherous and porous country I ever traveled" and so wild that "the... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau, Kevin P. Van Anglen - 1996 - 236 pagina’s
...in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 3, pp. 7778, Houghton Mifflin (1906). See also NATURE Seen from this point, a bare ridge at the extremity...which anciently bounded the earth in that direction. "Ktaadn" (1848) in The Maine Woods (1864), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 3, p. 62, Houghton... | |
 | Ian Marshall - 1998 - 308 pagina’s
...a spur to the south (possibly Rum Mountain). From there they could see Ktaadn, which, says Thoreau, "presented a different aspect from any mountain I...which anciently bounded the earth in that direction" (137). At noon, they roasted more trout over a fire, then climbed till four in the afternoon. They... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1999 - 134 pagina’s
...to steer directly for the base of the highest peak, leaving a large slide [Abol] ... on our left — Ktaadn presented a different aspect from any mountain...the highest peak, we were soon buried in the woods." Baxter Peak (5267') hides behind South Peak (5240') from this vantage point. "The tracks of moose,... | |
 | 2007 - 108 pagina’s
...self-appointed inspector of snowstorms, and rainstorms, and did my duty faithfully . . . HI , •Mi Seen from this point, a bare ridge at the extremity...which anciently bounded the earth in that direction. What a glorious time they must have in that wilderness, far from mankind and election day1. 28 Think... | |
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