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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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PILLARS OF HERCULES. These pil- Northern Pacific Railroad passes directly between them,lars awaken the wonder of men. A writer says : — How Gods hand built them, — not in a manner of slow-mountmgmasonry, gaining adventurously and toilsomely, foot by foot, andpushing its scaffolding ever higher to keep command of the work,and straining its energy to raising aloft the chiselled and ponderous. MARVELS OF NATURE. 117
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Il8 MARVELS OF THE NEW WEST. blocks to their place, — but with one lift, without break or course, orany gradations of rising completeness, the Supreme Builder set thedomed mountains in their place — foundation, wall, and top stone —one sublime integral whole, unprofaned by craftsmans tools, untrodby foot of man. Pyramid Park is on the line of the Northern Pacific Railway, andits name is derived from the interesting rock formations therein.Professor Denton says : Such a valley containing myriads of mounds,buttes, pyramids, pinnacles, forts, and turrets. Here are canons,ravines, gulches, and perpendicular precipices ; pyramids with brownand blue bases, and vermilion tops ; towers with unscalable walls thatdefy the earth-ransacking geologist — mounds of all sizes from anthills to respectable mountains ; mounds single, twin, triple, and mul-tiple ; mounds with yellow bases, white girdles, and blood-red caps ;mounds green, drab, white, blue, red, and mottled ; truncated moundswith

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