Now if one turns and looks up the gorge once more, he will see the Schloss Hotel on the right perched on a precipice overlooking the Neckar--a precipice which is so sumptuously cushioned and draped with foliage that no glimpse of the rock appears.
From the north cage one looks up the Neckar gorge; from the west one he looks down it.
Then they dropped down the river with the current, and paddled about above the gorge for half an hour.
Already she could hear the increasing roar of the river as it rushed, wild and tumultuous, through the entrance to the narrow gorge below her.
On the Tuesday there was a bitter frost, and the ground rung like iron beneath the feet of the horses; yet ere evening the prince himself, with the main battle of his army, had passed the
gorge and united with his vanguard at Pampeluna.
ON the 19th of December Captain Bonneville and his confederate Indians raised their camp, and entered the narrow
gorge made by the north fork of Salmon River.
Presently he espied the low and narrow entrance to what appeared to be a cave at the base of the cliffs which formed the northern side of the
gorge. With drawn knife he approached the spot warily, for he knew that if it were a cave it was doubtless the lair of some other beast.
In a few minutes we reached the foot of the
gorge, and kneeling upon a small ledge of dripping rocks, I bent over to the stream.
Even as they passed, a great rock came thundering down with a hoarse rattle which woke the echoes in the silent
gorges, and startled the weary horses into a gallop.
The first impression, on seeing the correspondence of the horizontal strata on each side of these valleys and great amphitheatrical depressions, is that they have been hollowed out, like other valleys, by the action of water; but when one reflects on the enormous amount of stone, which on this view must have been removed through mere
gorges or chasms, one is led to ask whether these spaces may not have subsided.
Their attention was so wholly riveted to this point of interest that they did not notice me, and I easily could have turned back into the dark recesses of the
gorge and made my escape with perfect safety.
"We shall separate here," he said, "several riding into each of these
gorges," and then he commenced to detail his various squads and issue instructions to the non-commissioned officers who were to command them.