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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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travellers in the Yosemite Valley becausethere are so many grander ones. Bentley, who has seen the BridalVeil, with its majestic surroundings, at night, says : — Thousands of travellers and tourists make pilgrimage to it eachyear, and yet no pen, brush, camera, nor tongue has ever, nor evercan, describe it in all its variety of grandeur and interest, so satisfac-torily as it reveals itself to the visitor. Who can paint its dark andever-changing shadows, sweetly nestling under those grim and awe-inspiring walls ? Who can write the sweet, yet dream-like story ofits cascades, falls, and deep, crystal pools, among those cliffs androck-ribbed, sky-piercing gray giants, or set to music the plaintivecadence of the summer wind through those proud pines and firs ?Can you trip to step so fairy as yon meadow brook delights itself 88 MARVELS OF THE NEW WEST. among its bordering grass and trailing sedge, or laugh as it, as bound-ing oer each rocky ledge ? Did ever mirror give back beautys smile
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YOSEMITE FALLS. as that mirror lake, or make grim mountain peak more grim ? Wheredoes early morning linger more lovingly, or evening shade moregrateful seem ? Oh, where does night seem more solemn than in MARVELS OF NATURE. 89 Yosemite ? The roaring cataract, the foamy flutter of the BridalVeil, gleaming like a silver band in the soft moonlight, yon lampsof heaven glossed over by fleecy clouds, half secreting, now half dis-closing, the tender murmur of balsam-freighted night wind ; gurglingbrooklet, and shrill alarm of owl or dove, are of the legion of voicesin which kind nature salutes you in this valley of the valleys, Yo-semite ! Niagaras descent is only one hundred and sixty feet; that ofYosemite is two thousand six hundred and thirty-four. SixteenNiagaras added together only equal the stupendous plunge of Yo-semite Falls. It is the grandest waterfall in the whole world, whenthe volume of water which it pours is estimated. Bentleys Hand-book says : — The Yosemite Fall is produce

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