There was only one place where the mountain might receive her -- that unnamed, unnameable pool harbored in its secret bosom.

She regarded them as signs that she was nearing the glen she sought, and she was glad to at last be doing something positive in her unenunciated, undefined struggle with the mountain and its darkling inhabitants.

she must be poised and proud and unafraid in order to prove to the mountain that she was in earnest.

The use of map coordinates was begun when the senior officers began to select tactical points by designating a spot as `` near the letter o in the word mountain ''.

There was a sniper's nest in a mountain cave, and it was picking off our men with devilish accuracy.

But that year was different, for just as the city, in the form of my street clothes, had intruded upon my mountain nights, so an essential part of the summer gave promise of continuing into the fall: Jessica and I, about to be separated not by a mere footbridge or messhall kitchen but by the immense obstacle of residing in cruelly distant boroughs, had agreed to correspond.

Breakfast was at the Palace Hotel, luncheon was somewhere in the mountain forest, and dinner was either at Boulder Creek or at Santa Cruz.

This mountain was known as The Black Reef and it rose almost perpendicularly for about two hundred feet, honeycombed with caves, top covered with dense scrub and creepers and tall grass.

Zion was surprised when Roy's buggy stopped beside her on the pike one early summer day as she was walking home from the country school where she was teaching now that Eph Showers had had a call to preach in some mountain town.

Boolying was also carried out in other areas of Achill, including Annagh on Croaghaun mountain and in Curraun.

The spread of the Akkadian state as far as the " silver mountain " ( possibly the Taurus Mountains ), the " cedars " of Lebanon, and the copper deposits of Magan, was largely motivated by the goal of securing control over these imports.

According to the Book of Exodus, God instructed Moses on Mount Sinai during his 40-day stay upon the mountain within the thick cloud and darkness where God was ( Ex.

" Fifty stadia 6 mi from the coast was a mountain that was low on all sides ... broke it off all round about ... the central island itself was five stades in diameter 0. 92 km ; 0. 57 mi.

The eldest of these, Atlas, was made rightful king of the entire island and the ocean ( called the Atlantic Ocean in his honor ), and was given the mountain of his birth and the surrounding area as his fiefdom.

These included some for the Triumphs of Maximilian, where he followed the overall style presumably set by Hans Burgkmair, although he was able to escape somewhat from this in his depictions of the more disorderly baggage-train, still coming through a mountain landscape.

His march northward through the Alps was interrupted by Rudolph, King of Transjurane Burgundy, and it was only with great difficulty that Arnulf crossed the mountain range.

In cases where the density of the air is significantly different from the calibration value ( as on a high mountain, or with an exceptionally low barometer ) an allowance must be made.

After he recovered, he made a second effort and went back into the desert to a farther mountain by the Nile called Pispir, now Der el Memun, opposite Crocodilopolis.

Mount Sodom, Israel, showing the so-called " Lot's Wife " pillar made of halite like the rest of the mountain.

Wood railing section made with mountain laurel branches

The duel with Chouinard is said to have made Carson famous among the mountain men but was also considered uncharacteristic of him.

In the Battle of Adobe Walls, the Indian force led by Dohäsan made several assaults on Carson's forces which were supported by two mountain howitzers.

* Chamois leather, leather made from the skin of the mountain antelope or Chamois

Legend has it that the mountain is based on a doodle made by W. W. Hodkinson during a meeting with Adolph Zukor.

Rwanda's tourism is centered around the attractions of Volcanoes National Park ( PNV ) with its six volcanoes and its protected population of mountain gorillas made famous by Dian Fossey.

It appeared to be only a silken ribbon but was made of six wondrous ingredients: the sound of a cat's footfall, the beard of a woman, the roots of a mountain, bear's sinews ( meaning nerves, sensibility ), fish's breath and bird's spittle.

Its proximity to imposing mountain ranges, hills and fault lines, especially towards its southeast have historically made the city prone to geological changes.

The entire coast of Lazio, on which the mountain and the marsh are located, was a chain of barrier islands that was formed on a horst, made part of the mainland by sedimentation of the intervening graben.

He wanted to " knock away the props " by attacking Germany's allies-he argued for the sending of British troops to Greece ( this was done-the Salonika expedition-although not on the scale that Lloyd George had wanted, and mountain ranges made his suggestions of grand Balkan offensives impractical ) and for the sending of machine guns to Romania ( insufficient were available ).

From 1803 to 1844 the British made the town a major naval port and built fortifications on Morne Fortune, the mountain that overlooks this important harbour.

In addition to the orchard and urban zones ( Alfonso x, Gran Via, Jaime I, and others ), the great expanse of the municipal area is made up of different landscapes: badlands, groves of Carrasco pine trees in the precoastal mountain ranges and, towards the south, a semi-steppe region.

When his unit was pinned down by grazing fire from the enemy's strong mountain defense and command of the squad devolved on him with the wounding of its regular leader, he made frontal, one-man attacks through direct fire and knocked out two machine guns with grenades.

The first humans are therefore thought to have made their homes among the southern valleys of California's coastal mountain ranges some 10, 000 to 12, 000 years ago, with the earliest of these people known only from archaeological evidence.

On 5 July 2003 about 350 skiers and 70 skifield staff were trapped on the mountain overnight at Top o ' the Bruce when a sudden snow storm blew up and within a few minutes made the access road too dangerous to descend.

Again on Saturday 26 July 2008 skiers and staff were trapped on the mountain overnight when a fast approaching storm caused the skifield to be closed at 10: 30am and made the road too dangerous for cars without chains or 4WD to leave the area.

Cocaine is made from the leaves of the coca shrub, which grows in the mountain regions of South American countries such as Bolivia, Colombia, and Peru.

The decision was made to move the motorcycle plant further east, out of bombing range and into the middle of the resource rich Ural mountain region.

A simple shelter was made at the foot of the mountain near the Biferten Glacier, the Grünhorn Hut, which was the first mountain hut of the Swiss Alpine Club.

Cilicia Trachea (" rugged Cilicia "— Greek: Κιλικία Τραχεία ; the Assyrian Khilakku or Khilikku, also sometimes transcribed as Hilakku or Hilikku, classical " Cilicia ") is a rugged mountain district formed by the spurs of Taurus, which often terminate in rocky headlands with small sheltered harbors, a feature which, in classical times, made the coast a string of havens for pirates, but which in the Middle Ages led to its occupation by Genoese and Venetian traders.

Through analysis of various strontium isotopes, archaeologists have realized that much of the timber that composes Chacoan construction came from a number of distant mountain ranges, indicative also of the Chaco Road's economic significance.

They assumed control over the town, expelled the police force and blocked roads leading to oak timber on a nearby mountain.

She cited another report that a Kitanemuk Indian referred to the site Campo del Soldado ( Soldier's Camp ), " which was where the soldiers stayed when they cut timber from a mountain they called Pinery Mountain, today's Frazier Mountain.

Advertising on this plat is identical to that carried on the original plat for the town of Demorest, which entices prospective buyers with promises of clean mountain air, fresh water, scenic views, medicinal springs, business opportunities in timber and mining of iron ore, and handsome profits on investments in land located in Cornelia.

When settlers arrived in what is now Susquehanna County they found rolling hills, clear lakes, and mountain streams with an abundance of natural resources like timber and bluestone.

Durst found a timber cross on the mountain, indicating that Spanish missionaries had once used the site.

Business interests in nearby Bennington were eager to take advantage of the vast timber resources there, and by 1872 had finally begun construction on a railroad ( trolley ) which ran up the mountain.

It is located at the picturesque narrow west end of the Kittitas Valley (, ) where high elevation timber lands of the Cascade Range, with mountain lakes and vacation homes, give way to horse country and cattle ranches surrounded by rich, irrigated farmlands noted for Timothy hay, alfalfa, vegetables, fruit, and forage production.

Some of the finest timber in the world covered the mountain foothills adjacent to Clear Lake.

In one of his essays aimed at the common person he wrote, " Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home ; that wilderness is a necessity ; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life.

This act aims to preserve the environment around the mountain due to threats from increased development such as conversion to agricultural lands, timber production, hunting, and increased tourism.

In the 1920s, a Boy Scout camp was built on the summit of the mountain and, a few years later, lumbermen cut the mountain forest for timber.

The Halifax Development Commission obtained a one-year option to purchase timber on the mountain from Union Camp, allowing the state time to acquire of land to establish the park.

These cribs built of local mountain stone and sunken timber were stretched diagonally across the river, beginning on the south side near Duboistown and ending on the north side near Linden.

Much of the southern slopes of the mountain are covered in Eucalypt, Wattle, and other exotic timber plantations from the time when a forestry centre was based here.

The ore was smelted into pig iron in furnaces about half a mile distant, and manufactured into bars at some works erected upon a powerful mountain stream which flows through the village: these works were continued till all the timber of the mountains was consumed in smelting the ore, when they were necessarily abandoned.

In the 1930s, after years of making charcoal to fuel nearby iron furnaces, mountain farming, and harvesting of trees for timber, land was purchased to be transformed into a productive recreation area, helping to put people back to work during the Great Depression.

Much of the mountain, being shattered rock, is home to large populations of timber rattlesnakes.

As the Elkmont valley was slowly stripped of its valuable timber, Townsend began to advertise the area as a mountain getaway.

Its mountain is full of cascading waterfalls ; mountain caves for nature-seekers ; and minerals and timber, all awaiting development. Calanasan is the source of the mighty Apayao River which empties into the China Sea and is the only navigable river in Apayao. Calanasan is a 1st class municipality in the province of Apayao, Philippines.

It is harvested from old growth forest but the vast majority of the timber is left on the ground as it grows with the heavily harvested mountain ash.

It offers an abundance of commercial and recreational opportunities including grazing, oil / gas, timber, picnicking, camping, skiing, hiking and mountain biking as well as the aerial Sandia Peak Tramway with a restaurant and skiing at the top.