Snow. Everywhere. As far as the eye could reach-fifty miles, looking southward from the highest white peak, -filling ravines and gulches, and dropping from the walls of ca???ons in white shroud-like drifts, fashioning the dividing ridge into the likeness of a monstrous grave, hiding the bases of giant pines, and completely covering young trees and larches, rimming with porcelain the bowl-like edges of still, cold lakes, and undulating in motionless white billows to the edge of the distant horizon. Snow lying everywhere over ...
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Snow. Everywhere. As far as the eye could reach-fifty miles, looking southward from the highest white peak, -filling ravines and gulches, and dropping from the walls of ca???ons in white shroud-like drifts, fashioning the dividing ridge into the likeness of a monstrous grave, hiding the bases of giant pines, and completely covering young trees and larches, rimming with porcelain the bowl-like edges of still, cold lakes, and undulating in motionless white billows to the edge of the distant horizon. Snow lying everywhere over the California Sierras on the 15th day of March 1848, and still falling. It had been snowing for ten days: snowing in finely granulated powder, in damp, spongy flakes, in thin, feathery plumes, snowing from a leaden sky steadily, snowing fiercely, shaken out of purple-black clouds in white flocculent masses, or dropping in long level lines, like white lances from the tumbled and broken heavens. But always silently! The woods were so choked with it-the branches were so laden[Pg 2] with it-it had so permeated, filled and possessed earth and sky; it had so cushioned and muffled the ringing rocks and echoing hills, that all sound was deadened. The strongest gust, the fiercest blast, awoke no sigh or complaint from the snow-packed, rigid files of forest. There was no cracking of bough nor crackle of underbrush; the overladen branches of pine and fir yielded and gave way without a sound. The silence was vast, measureless, complete! Nor could it be said that any outward sign of life or motion changed the fixed outlines of this stricken landscape. Above, there was no play of light and shadow, only the occasional deepening of storm or night. Below, no bird winged its flight across the white expanse, no beast haunted the confines of the black woods; whatever of brute nature might have once inhabited these solitudes had long since flown to the lowlands.
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Clean pages with toning, binding. Size: 8 x 5.5; Clean pages with toning, binding solid but weak, brown cloth decorated boards clean with light bumping.
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Very good. American Publishing Co, 1877. Very Good HC, no DJ. Brown 'S' cloth over boards, blind stamped on covers with triple rules enclosing rectangle with dot & scrolls pattern at corners; gilt letters and filigree pattern on spine; bright, clean covers & spine; slightly rubbed at spine ends, not split or frayed; tightly bound; end papers age darkened; crisp & clean interior; stamp on rear pastedown from Rare Books Curator at Syracuse Univ. 32 illustrations by True Williams, illustrator for Mark Twain; frontispiece missing. 12mo, 466 pp.
