As the
level of the passage rose, so, too, did the waters rise until it soon became apparent to me, who brought up the rear, that they were gaining rapidly upon us.
There was no
level ground at the Kaltbad station; the railbed was as steep as a roof; I was curious to see how the stop was going to be managed.
"Picture to yourselves," said I, "what this crater must have been when filled with boiling lava, and when the
level of the incandescent liquid rose to the orifice of the mountain, as though melted on the top of a hot plate."
Your hand at the
level of your eyes, in Heaven's name, at the
level of your eyes!...know most of his tricks...
The little stretch of
level land was white with Indian tepees, and there were probably half a thousand red warriors clustered around some object near the center of the camp.
The elevation of the vast plateau on which this lake is situated, is estimated by Captain Bonneville at one and three-fourths of a mile above the
level of the ocean.
I may add, that the only ancient tertiary formation on the west coast of South America, which has been bulky enough to resist such degradation as it has as yet suffered, but which will hardly last to a distant geological age, was certainly deposited during a downward oscillation of
level, and thus gained considerable thickness.
It was not for their tameness, but for their impassioned sincerity, that he chose incidents and situations from common life, "related in a selection of language really used by men." He constantly endeavours to bring his language nearer to the real language of men; but it is to the real language of men, not on the dead
level of their ordinary intercourse, but in certain select moments of vivid sensation, when this language is winnowed and ennobled by sentiment.
However it seemed likely that it would carry me once more safely through the crowded passages and chambers of the upper
levels, and so I set out with Perry and Ghak--the stench of the illy cured pelts fairly choking me.
He dodged hither and thither, distancing them for several minutes until, at the bottom of a long runway that inclined steeply downward from a higher
level, he burst into a subterranean apartment lighted by many flares.
A the point where we first met this formation it was 120 fee in thickness; following up the river course, the surfac imperceptibly rose and the mass became thicker, so that a forty miles above the first station it was 320 feet thick What the thickness may be close to the Cordillera, I hav no means of knowing, but the platform there attains a heigh of about three thousand feet above the
level of the sea we must therefore look to the mountains of that great chai for its source; and worthy of such a source are streams tha have flowed over the gently inclined bed of the sea to distance of one hundred miles.
In the deepest part there are several acres more
level than almost any field which is exposed to the sun, wind, and plow.