"Now, that bird," he would say, "is, maybe, two hundred years old, Hawkins — they live forever mostly; and if anybody's seen more wickedness, it must be the devil himself."
In the distance half a dozen sand-spouts, swiftly-moving white pillars, looking like desert genii with too much "tanglefoot" aboard, were careering about in every direction.
Now it is generally believed that the sample from Devil's Hole corresponds to variations in local climate, in the western United States, rather than global climate changes.
However, in the late 1980s, some scientists were exploring Devil' s Hole, which is basically an extensive water-filled cave, far from the ocean, in Nevada2, in the western United States.