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Identifier: marvelsofnewwest1889thay (find matches)
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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canon with its grottos, amphitheatres, and itstowering crags, peaks, and needle-pointed rocks, towering /^r above ^_ ___ the road, overhanging it in places, withpatches of eternalsnow in the gloomygorges near the sum-mit, and clothed atall times in a mantleof green, the pine,spruce, and cedartrees growing in allthe nooks and gulchesand away up on thesummit ; then count-less mosses and fernsclinging to each crev-ice and seam where afoothold can be se-cured, together withthe millions of flow-ers of every hue;where the suns raysare sifted throughcountless objects ontheir way to the sil-very, sparklingstream below, withits miniature cascadesand eddies. We sayimagine all thesethings, and then youwill only have a faintoutline of the wildand romantic, pictur-esque and gloriousAmerican Fork Canon. Lion Rock, Telescope Peak, Sled-runner Curve, Rainbow Cliff, and Hanging Rock are amongthe objects of peculiar interest in this canon. It requires no stretch of the imagination, in passing through a
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On the Line of U. P. Railway. PULPIT ROCK. MARVELS OF NATURE, 33 canon like this, to behold castles, pyramids, obelisks, towers, colon-nades, and every sort of architecture in the marvellous rock-forma-tions that appear on every side. Bayard Taylor said of the view inanother locality of the Rockies : Here was a feudal castle of theMiddle Ages ; there a shattered, irregular obelisk, or broken pyra-mid ; and finally, rising above from the level of a meadow, we beheldthree perpendicular towers, eighty feet high, resting on a commonbase. Their crests were of bright orange hue, fading downward intowhite. Beyond them extended the shattered battlements of a city

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