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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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e and becomes the eastern wall ofLittle Zion Valley. As it sweeps down the Parunuweap (the otherprincipal fork of the Virgen), it breaks into great pediments coveredall over with the richest carving. The effect is much like that whichthe architect of the Milan Cathedral appears to have designed, thoughhere it is vividly suggested rather than fully realized, as an artistpainting in the broad style suggests many things without actuallydrawing them. The sumptuous, bewildering, mazy effect is all there ;but when we attempt to analyze it in detail, it eludes us. The flankof the wall receding up the Mukiintuweap is for a mile or two simi-larly decorated, but soon breaks into new forms much more impressiveand wonderful. A row of towers half a mile high is quarried out ofthe palisade, and stands well advanced from its face. There is aneloquence in their forms which stirs the imagination with a singularpower, and kindles in the mind of the dullest observer a glowing 40 MARVELS OF THE NEW WEST.
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MARVELS OF NATURE. 41 response. Just behind them, and rising a thousand feet higher, isthe eastern temple, crowned with a cylindric dome of white sand-stone; but since it is, in many respects, a repetition of the nearer

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