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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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wall is recessed with large amphitheatres, but-tressed with huge spurs, and decorated with towers and pinnacles. As the sun is about to set, the cliffs glow with an orange-ver-milion that seems to be an intrinsic lustre emanating from the rocksthemselves. But the great gala days of the cliffs are those when sun-shine and storm are waging an even battle; when the massive banks ofclouds send their white diffuse light into the dark places, and tonedown the intense glare of the direct rays ; when they roll over thesummits in stately procession, wrapping them in vigor, and revealingcloud-girt masses here and there through wide rifts. Then thetruth appears, and all deceptions are exposed. Their real gran-deur, their true forms, and a just sense of their relations are atlast fairly presented, so that the mind can grasp them. And theyare very grand — even sublime. There is no need, as we look uponthem, of fancy to heighten the picture, nor of metaphor to present 38 MARVELS OF THE NEW WEST.
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MARVELS OF NATURE. 39 it. The simple truth is quite enough. I never before had a realiz-ing sense of a cliff one thousand eight hundred to two thousandfeet high. I think I have a definite and abiding one at present. The Pink Cliffs present a marvellous scene even for the GrandCanon District of the Colorado. The verge of the precipice atthe foot of the cliff is eight hundred feet above the valley.From this eminence the cliffs rise in beauty and grandeur, tofill every observer with surprise and wonder. Captain Buttonsays : The cliff is of marvellous sculpture and color. The rainshave carved out of it rows of square obelisks and pilasters of uni-form pattern and dimensions, which decorate the front for manymiles, giving the effect of a gigantic colonnade from which the entab-lature has been removed or has fallen in ruins. The Plateau Countryabounds in these close resemblances of natural carving to humanarchitecture, and nowhere are these more conspicuous or more per-fect than in the scar

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