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It was a terrifying uproar of interior cataclysms, a remnant of the ancient battle when deluges overthrew the earth, burying the mountains beneath the plains.
Meanwhile we went ever onward, and these vast plains of sand seemed endless.
The plains of sand were followed by a bed of that viscous slime Americans call "ooze," which is composed exclusively of seashells rich in limestone or silica.
For an hour plains of sand unrolled before our steps.
For two hours we were sometimes led over plains of sand, sometimes over prairies of seaweed that were quite arduous to cross.
Ned Land went westward up the coast; then, fording some stream beds, he reached open plains that were bordered by wonderful forests.
After crossing through a moderately dense thicket, we again found some plains obstructed by bushes.
We then plowed the waves of the Indian Ocean, vast liquid plains with an area of 550,000,000 hectares, whose waters are so transparent it makes you dizzy to lean over their surface.
If you're invited to hunt lions on the Atlas plains or tigers in the jungles of India, you might say: "Ha!Now's my chance to hunt lions and tigers!"
What's certain is that in 615 B.C. King Necho II was hard at work on a canal that was fed by Nile water and ran through the Egyptian plains opposite Arabia.
Compared to the vast liquid plains of the Pacific, the Mediterranean is a mere lake, but it's an unpredictable lake with fickle waves, today kindly and affectionate to those frail single-masters drifting between a double ultramarine of sky and water, tomorrow bad-tempered and turbulent, agitated by the winds, demolishing the strongest ships beneath sudden waves that smash down with a headlong wallop.
So what were these vast plains we were now crossing?
There the mountain rose only 700 to 800 feet above the plains; but on its far slope it crowned the receding bottom of this part of the Atlantic by a height twice that.
So situated, this volcano was an immense torch that lit up the lower plains all the way to the horizon.
We stayed in this place an entire hour, contemplating its vast plains in the lava's glow, which sometimes took on a startling intensity.
The captain stood up and took one last look at these immense plains; then his hand signaled me to follow him.
In fact, the Nautilus was skimming only ten meters over the soil of these Atlantis plains.
But while observing these different specimens of marine fauna, I didn't stop examining the long plains of Atlantis.
I expected these long plains to change into mountain regions, and in fact, as the Nautilus was executing certain turns, I noticed that the southerly horizon was blocked by a high wall that seemed to close off every exit.
Before the Nautilus's spur there lay vast broken plains, a tangle of confused chunks with all the helter-skelter unpredictability typical of a river's surface a short while before its ice breakup; but in this case the proportions were gigantic.
The mountains were changing back into plains.
Arriving at the topmost ridge of this promontory, I could see vast white plains covered with walruses.
The water, flowing by the grass, divides with a white line the colour of the roads and of the plains, and the country is like a great unfolded mantle with a green velvet cape bordered with a fringe of silver.
Thus, for six consecutive months, one could read in the "Fanal de Rouen" editorials such as these—"All who bend their steps towards the fertile plains of Picardy have, no doubt, remarked, by the Bois-Guillaume hill, a wretch suffering from a horrible facial wound.
Presently the traveller's gaze, passing over the lower ridges which confine the course of the Doubs on the south, was able to sweep the fertile plains of Burgundy and Beaujolais.
It will keep me in good spirits in my post-chaise, as I scour the plains of Languedoc.'
"They say, however, at the Plains," the peddler continued, first throwing his eyes again around the room, and letting them rest for an instant on Harper, "that Sumter and one or two more were all that were hurt, and that the rig'lars were all cut to pieces, for the militia were fixed snugly in a log barn."
"But the pickets - the party at the Plains?" added Dunwoodie, turning pale.
The battle of the Plains had taught the cautious Washington the advantages his enemy possessed in organization, arms, and discipline.
The land bordering on the latter then becomes less abrupt, and gradually assumes a milder appearance, until it finally melts into the lovely plains and meadows of the Connecticut.
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