To California and back; (1897) (14572248218)

Identifier: tocaliforniaback02higg (find matches)
Title: To California and back;
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Higgins, C. A. (Charles A.) Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad Company
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Publisher: Chicago, Passenger department, Santa Fé route
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation



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s^- 78 enty-five feet is probably their utmost depth.They are the culmination of this extraordinarywork of an insensate sculptor. There arealcove-niches, friezes of small gray and blackmosaic, horizontal bands of red, and high-vaulted roofs. If the native California Indianshad possessed a poetic temperament they mustcertainly have performed religious rites in sucha temple. The water is as pellucid as a moun-tain spring. The flush of the waves foamsdazzling white and pours through the intrica-cies of countless channels, tunnels and fissuresin overwhelming torrents, and in the briefintervals between ebb and rise the bottom ofrock and clean sand gleams invitingly througha depth of many feet. Sea-anemones arethickly clustered upon the lower levels, theirtinted petal-filaments scintillating in the shal-low element, or closed bud-like while waiting forthe flood. Little crabs scamper in disorderly pro-cession through the crevices at your approach,and that univalve with the ornamental shell,k