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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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none morebeautiful. There is not the breadth and dash of Niagara, nor isthere the enormous depth of leap of some of the falls of the Yosemite.But here is majesty of its own kind, and beauty too. On either sideare vast pinnacles of sculptured rock. There, where the rock opensfor the river, its waters are compressed from a width of two hundredfeet between the Upper and Lower Falls to one hundred feet where ittakes the plunge. The shelf of rock over which it leaps is absolutelylevel. The water seems to wait a moment on its verge ; then it passeswith a single bound of three hundred feet into the gorge below. It is asheer, unbroken, compact, shining mass of silver foam. But your eyesare all the time distracted from the fall itself, great and beautiful as it is,to its marvellous setting — to the surprising overmastering canon intowhich the river leaps and through which it flows, dwindling to but afoamy ribbon there in its appalling depths. As you cling here to e^ MARVELS OF THE NEW WEST,
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GRAND CANON OF THE YELLOWSTONE. MARVELS OF NATURE. 67 this jutting rock the falls are already many hundred feet below you.The falls unroll their whiteness down amid the canon glooms. . . .These rocky sides are almost perpendicular; indeed, in many placesthe boiling springs have gouged them out so as to leave overhangingcliffs and tables at the top. Take a stone and throw it over — youmust wait long before you hear it strike. Nothing more awful haveI ever seen than the yawning of that chasm. And the stillness,solemn as midnight, profound as death ! The water dashing there,as in a kind of agony, against those rocks, you cannot hear. Themighty distance lays the finger of its silence on its white lips. Youare oppressed with a sense of danger. It is as though the vastnesswould soon force you from the rock to which you cling. The silence,the sheer depth, the gloom, burden you. It is a relief to feel thefirm earth beneath your feet again, as you carefully crawl back fromyour perching place

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