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  • The distance between these two "dalls" is some thirty miles.

    ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE 1841

  • There was a really creepy children's chapter book I read about a girl who goes to live with some mean aunts, and discovers two living china dalls in the attic, with their own lives and histories, called "Behind the Attic Wall".

    Getting Small: Toys and Miniatures Heather McDougal 2008

  • Between the dalls and cascades, a reach of high-lands, formed almost entirely of naked basalt, presents another barrier, through which the river forces itself by a tunnel-like pass for ten or fifteen miles, leaving vast mural piles upon the right and left, that attain an altitude of three hundred and fifty or four hundred feet.

    ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE 1841

  • At the upper end of the dalls the boat had to be lightened and the one half of their cargoes carried a piece, as the boats could not b dragged up with the cargo all in.

    Journal of John Work, June 21 - Sept. 6, 1825 1825

  • In the evening we got on a little with the poles, but all the rest of the day the tow line had to be used, at the dalls it was very bad, the men had to pass the line over high projecting rocks where had they missed a foot they would have been killed.

    Journal of John Work, June 21 - Sept. 6, 1825 1825

  • Embarked before 4 oclock this morning and reached the lower end of the dalls 42 at 9 oclock and got over there at 1, and encamped at half past 6 in the evening, having made a better days march than the common.

    Journal of John Work, June 21 - Sept. 6, 1825 1825

  • We are looking for married couples to tour our autin, dalls and/or fort worth resorts.

    Random feeds from Syndic8.com 2009

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