As you stagger through their chaotic bottoms, you see vast boulders poised overhead, tottering to a fall; a shiver of earthquake, a breath of hurricane, and they come crashing and splintering in destruction down.

Along the sides of these acclivities extend long, level lines and furrows, marks of where the ocean flowed ages ago.

But sometimes the hills are but accumulations of desert dust, which shift slowly from place to place under the action of the wind, melting away here to be re-erected yonder; mounding themselves, perhaps, above a living and struggling human being, to move forward, anon, leaving where he was a little heap of withered bones.

A fearful place is this broad abyss, where once murmured the waters of a prehistoric sea.
Let us return to the cool and fragrant security of the general's ranch.
At right angles to the main body of the house extend two wings, thus forming three sides of a square, the interior of which is the court-yard.

Here the business of the establishment is conducted.