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  • Far across the river delta, snow and ice clung to the siltstone and mudstone clefts of Franklin Bluffs.

    The Great Alaskan Cast and Blast 2004

  • The wealthy classes and the English inhabitants reside in very pretty villas in the most beautiful part of the town, called the Bluffs, from whence a splendid view is obtained of the surrounding country on one side, and the ocean on the other.

    Battles and Victories of Allen Allensworth, A. M., Ph. D., Lieutenant-Colonel, Retired, U. S. Army 1914

  • Oak Bluffs, which is home to a prominent African-American community that includes Henry Louis Gates Jr.,

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com 2009

  • The incident happened Wednesday morning near Big Lake Road in Council Bluffs, which is near Big Lake Park.

    KETV.com - Local News 2009

  • The incident happened Wednesday morning near Big Lake Road in Council Bluffs, which is near Big Lake Park.

    KETV.com - Local News 2009

  • The incident happened Wednesday morning near Big Lake Road in Council Bluffs, which is near Big Lake Park.

    KETV.com - Local News 2009

  • The incident happened Wednesday morning near Big Lake Road in Council Bluffs, which is near Big Lake Park.

    KETV.com - Local News 2009

  • The incident happened Wednesday morning near Big Lake Road in Council Bluffs, which is near Big Lake Park.

    KETV.com - Local News 2009

  • About the middle of June, there came every year to the "Bluffs" a certain party of young folks, half a dozen or more in number, with their parents, to stay till the middle of July, when they usually left for the mountains.

    The Slipper Point Mystery 1921

  • Proceeding down along the Popo Agie, Captain Bonneville came again in full view of the "Bluffs," as they are called, extending from the base of the Wind River Mountains far away to the east, and presenting to the eye a confusion of hills and cliffs of red sandstone, some peaked and angular, some round, some broken into crags and precipices, and piled up in fantastic masses; but all naked and sterile.

    The Adventures of Captain Bonneville Irving, Washington, 1783-1859 1850

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