We were very comfortable and commonplace until that came along and revealed anomalies.

The secret lies, I suppose, in the trend of the strata, which is generally north and south.

You see the ridges cropping out all through the desert; and there's a good deal of lava oozing over them, too.

They probably act as walls, to prevent the sea getting in from the west, or the Colorado leaking in from the east." "In that case," remarked the general, "a little more seismic disturbance might produce a change." "It would have to be more than a little, I suspect," returned Meschines.
"Kamaiakan told me that the Indians have a prophecy that a great lake will come back and make the desert fruitful, and that there are some who know the very place where the water will begin to flow." And here the hammock, with a final convulsion, gave birth to a beautiful young woman, in a diaphanous silk dress and a white lace mantilla.

She crossed the veranda, and seated herself on the broad arm of her father's chair.
"Why, that's important!" said the general, arching his brows.