 The water was thick with mud, slimy with foam, and loaded with twigs, dead leaflets and other flotsam ; it was seen up and down the road several hundred yards in either direction or fully half a mile in all, covering the entire surface on both sides of...  Water-supply Paper - Page 1051925Full view - About this book
 | Geology - 1897 - 654 pages
...in volume ; the teamster was startled, and set out along the road up the valley at best speed; but before he had gone 100 yards the flood was about him. The water was thick with mud, slimy with foam, and loaded with twigs, dead leaflets and other flotsam ; it was seen up and down the road several hundred... | |
 | Geological Society of America - Geology - 1897 - 602 pages
...in volume ; the teamster was startled, and set out along the road up the valley at best speed ; but before he had gone 100 yards the flood was about him. The water was thick with mud, slimy with foam, and loaded with twigs, dead leaflets and other flotsam ; it was seen up and down the road several hundred... | |
 | Geological Society of America - Geology - 1908 - 752 pages
...in volume ; the teamster wns startled, and set out along the road up the valley at best speed, but before he had gone 100 yards the flood was about him. The water wns thick with mud, slimy with foam, and loaded with twigs, dead leaflets, and other flotsam ; it was... | |
 | Geology - 1922 - 196 pages
...increasing in volume; the teamster set out along the road up the [Santa Cruz] valley at best speed; but before he had gone 100 yards the flood was about him....dead leaflets, and other flotsam ; it was seen up and_down the road in either direction, fully half a mile in all, covering the entire surface save a... | |
 | Dean Eddy Winchester - Oil-shales - 1923 - 758 pages
...increasing in volume; the teamster set out along the road up the [Santa Cruz] valley at best speed; but before he had gone 100 yards the flood was about him....save a few Islands protected by exceptionally large mesquite clumps. The torrent advanced at race-horse speed at first, but, slowing rapidly, died out... | |
 | Geological Society of America - Geology - 1897 - 576 pages
...in volume ; the teamster was startled, and set out along the road up the valley at best speed ; but before he had gone 100 yards the flood was about him. The water was thick with mud, slimy with foam, and loaded with twigs, dead leaflets and other flotsam ; it was seen up and down the road several hundred... | |
 | Geological Society of America - Geology - 1908 - 780 pages
...hefore he had gone 100 yards the flood was ahout him. The water was thick with mud, slimy with foam, and loaded with twigs, dead leaflets, and other flotsam ; it was seen up and down the road several hundred yards in either direction, or fully half a mile In all, covering the entire surface... | |
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