A haze of orange and bronze lay upon the lower slopes of the mountains, magically enriching the greens; and the blue against which the mountains were contoured, was pure and immense and still.
"Son of Power"
Will Levington Comfort and Zamin Ki Dost
Above is an illustration of the first pitch of the gully climbed in 1888. Mr. Hastings led up the shallow crevice seen on the left of the picture, and on reaching the level of the top of the pitch contoured the intervening buttress into the chimney again.
"Climbing in The British Isles. Vol. 1 - England"
W. P. Haskett Smith
This valley is contoured by the level of 100 feet and lower for a considerable portion of its length, and practically all of it lies below the level of 500 feet.
"Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror"
Richard Linthicum Trumbull White Samuel Fallows