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Title: Marvels of the new West : a vivid portrayal of the stupendous marvels in the vast wonderland west of the Missouri River : comprising marvels of nature, marvels of race, marvels of enterprise, marvels of mining, marvels of stock-raising, and marvels of agriculture, graphically and truthfully described
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Thayer, William Makepeace, 1820-1898
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Publisher: Norwich, Conn. : Henry Bill Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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PIKES PEAK RAILWAY. MARVELS OF NATURE, 27 Rock in the Wa-satch Mountains,Utah. It embracessome of the wildestand most majesticscenery of the NewWest, together withseveral of the mostoriginal and inter-esting objects whichnature ever carved.These begin at thevery mouth of thecanon, as the cut onthe following pageshows. Nature builds ona magnificent scaleat the West, and soher rock-pulpit, atthe opening of EchoCanon, is none ofyour modern toy af-fairs behind whichan orator can hideall but his head. Itis made to standupon, though tow-ering high into theair; and the imagi-nary preacher occu-pying it is supposedto address the mul-titude who passdown the canon bygenerations. It is afitting introductionto the scenes thatfollow. Mr. Crofutt says :**The beauties of
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THE SEVEN FALLS. 28 MARVELS OF THE NEW WEST. Echo Canon are so many, so majestic, so awe-inspiring in theirsubHmity, that there is little use in calling the travellers atten-tion to them. . . . Four miles below Hanging Rock the wallsrise in massive majesty, the prominent features of the canon.Rain, wind, and time have combined to destroy them, but invain. Centuries have come and gone since that mighty con-vulsion shook the earth to its centre, when Echo and Webercanons sprung into existence,—twin children, whose birth washeralded by throes such as the earth may never feel again; andstill the mighty wall of Echo remains, bidding defiance alike to timeand his co-laborers, the elements ; still hangs the delicate fret andfrost work from the walls ; still the pillar, column, dome, and spire stand boldly forth inall their grand, wild,and weird beauty toentrance the traveller,and fill his mind withwonder and awe. ^ Another says : ■ Acanon is only a valleybetween the high hills ;that is a

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