 | United States. Congress. House - 898 σελίδες
...to be incrusted with calcareous cement. This striking feature suggested a name for the lake; and 1 called it Pyramid lake ; and though it may be deemed by some a fanciful resemblance, 1 can undertake to say that the future traveller will find a much more striking resemblance between... | |
 | John Charles Frémont - 1840 - 290 σελίδες
...pyramid of Cheops. Like other rocks along the shore, it seemed to be incrusted with calcareous cement. This striking^ feature suggested a name for the lake;...resemblance, I can undertake to say that the future traveller will find much more striking resemblance between this rock and the pyramids of Egypt, than... | |
 | John Charles Frémont - 1845 - 766 σελίδες
...it as we saw it. Like other rocks along the shore, it seemed to be incrusted with calcareous cement. This striking feature suggested a name for the lake;...resemblance, I can undertake to say that the future traveller will find a much more striking resemblance between this rock and the pyramids of Egypt, than... | |
 | John Charles Frémont - 1845 - 814 σελίδες
...it as we saw it. Like other rocks along the shore, it seemed to be incrusted with calcareous cement. This striking feature suggested a name for the lake...; and I called it Pyramid lake ; and though it may be*deemed by some a fanciful resemblance, I can undertake to say that the future traveller will find... | |
 | 1851 - 278 σελίδες
...pyramid of Cheops. Like other rocks along the shore, it seemed to be encrusted with calcareous cement. This striking feature suggested a name for the lake, and I called it Pyramid Lake. Its elevation above the sea is 4890 feet, being nearly 700 feet higher than the Great Salt Lake, from... | |
 | Charles Wentworth Upham - 1856 - 428 σελίδες
...pyramid of Cheops. Like other rocks along the shore, it seemed to be incrusted with calcareous cement. This striking feature suggested a name for the lake; and I called it Pyramid Lake. " January 29. The other division of the party did not come in to-night, but encamped in the tipper... | |
 | John C. Van Tramp - 1858 - 678 σελίδες
...pyramid of Cheops. Like other rocks along the shore, it seemed to be incrasted with calcareous cement. This striking feature suggested a name for the lake,...Pyramid Lake ; and though it may be deemed by some a fancifnl resemblance, I can undertake to say that the future tr»'eler will find much more striking... | |
 | John C. Van Tramp - 1866 - 710 σελίδες
...pyramid of Cheops. Like other rocks along the shore, it seemed to be incrusted with calcareous cement. This striking feature suggested a name for the lake,...called it Pyramid Lake ; and though it may be deemed bj some a fanciful resemblance, I can undertake to sny that the future traveler will find much more... | |
 | John C. Van Tramp - 1867 - 814 σελίδες
...feature suggested a name for the lake, and I called it Pyramid Lake ; and though it may be deemed bj some a fanciful resemblance, I can undertake to say...much more striking resemblance between this rock and th« pyramids of Egypt, than there is between them and the object from which they take their name.... | |
 | John C. Van Tramp - 1868 - 822 σελίδες
...pyramid of Cheops. Like other rocks along the shore, it seemed to be incrnsted with calcareous cement. This striking feature suggested a name for the lake,...called it Pyramid Lake ; and though it may be deemed br some a fanciful resemblance, I can undertake to say that the future tweler will find much more striking... | |
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... miles. It rose, according to our estimate, 600 feet above the water ; and, from the point we viewed it, presented a pretty exact outline of the great pyramid of Cheops. Like other rocks along the shore, it seemed to be incrusted with calcareous cement.... 
