...beside each other gazing at the water. The waves flung themselves far up the rocks beneath our windows. As far as the eye could reach, nothing was to be seen but the white crests of waves rising from the black surface of the sea, and little reefs against which...

...a whole day, we sometimes found that we had not advanced more than two leagues in a straight line. As far as the eye could reach nothing was to be seen but marshes full of flags and alders. For more than forty leagues of the way, we could not have found a...

...for a whole day we sometimes found that we had not advanced more than two leagues in a straight line. As far as the eye could reach nothing was to be seen but marshes full of flags and alders. For more than forty leagues of the way we could not have found a...

...resumed into the great reed-covered area, which Oxley fancied was the commencement of the inland sea. As far as the eye could reach nothing was to be seen but reeds, and for days the expedition wandered through them, occasionally coming upon isolated pools of...

...the middle of the Belcher Channel. There was scarcely an inch depth of water now under her keel; and, far as the eye could reach, nothing was to be seen but ice-fields. Fortunately, it was possible to get a few minutes farther north yet, by breaking the young...

...the haunts of men. A fairly hard and level sandy track led off into the heart of the wilderness, and, as far as the eye could reach, nothing was to be seen but brown earth, boulder, and rock, olive-green cactus, and stunted palm, save where, towards the horizon,...

...singularly out of place, accentuating the desolate loneliness of the country, where for miles and miles as far as the eye could reach nothing was to be seen rising above the sagebrush and cactus except a range of misty, purple mountains a few miles to the...

...of white sand. With much toil several of our number ascended one or two of the highest hillocks, but as far as the eye could reach nothing was to be seen but one unbroken expanse of sand, white, dazzling under the rays of a burning sun, unrelieved by a single...

...numerous and troublesome. I was always forcibly struck by the melancholy appearance of a burnt Prairie. As far as the eye could reach, nothing was to be seen but one uniform black surface, looking like a vast plain of charcoal. Here and there, by the roadside,...

...on the lower boughs of the alders and willows. There lay outstretched the heavy, melancholy plain. As far as the eye could reach, nothing was to be seen but the flat expanse of field and soil, broken by innumerable intersecting fences, with here and there...