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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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here brought home to us the truth that symmetry is onlyone of an infinite range of devices by which beauty can be materi-alized. And finer forms are in the quarryThan ever Angelo evoked. The finest butte of the chasm is situated near the upper end ofthe Kaibab division, but it is not visible from Point Sublime. It ismore than five thousand feet high, and has a surprising resemblanceto an Oriental pagoda. We named it Vishnus Temple. ^ Mr. Button continues: Whatsoever is forcible, characteristic,and picturesque in the rock-forms of the Plateau Country is concen-trated and intensified to the uttermost in the buttes. Wherever wefind them, whether fringing th: long escarpments of terraces orplanted upon broad mesas, whether in canons or upon expansiveplains, they are always bold and striking in outline, and ornate inarchitecture. Upon their flanks and entablatures the decorationpeculiar to the formation out of which they have been carved is most 1 Capt. C. E. Dutton. MARVELS OF NATURE, 43
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f 44 MARVELS OF THE NEW WEST. Strongly portrayed, and the profiles are most sharply cut. They com-mand the attention with special force, and quicken the imaginationwith a singular power. Moving northward, with grandeur on each side, Captain Buttondescribes another butte still more surprising in its appearance, but,for reasons not mentioned, it was not photographed. The controll-ing object was a great butte which sprang into view immediatelybefore us, and which the salient of the wall had hitherto masked. Upona pedestal two miles long and a thousand feet high, richly decoratedwith horizontal mouldings, rose four towers highly suggestive of cathe-dral architecture. Their altitude above the plain was estimated ateighteen hundred feet. They were separated by vertical clefts madeby the enlargements of the joints, and many smaller clefts extendingfrom the summits to the pedestal carved the turrets into tapering but-tresses, which gave a graceful, aspiring effect, wdth a remarkable defi-nite

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