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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 GrandCanon, it is in complete harmony with its transcendent glories. Thecontemplation is inspiring and elevating. A man is better for takingin the sublime view. It awakens thoughts of the Great Architect,whose handiwork is so wonderful. fli < i ^ 1 ^r^r I ^ - :^ ^ i WW^^i^t^^^^^^- ^^^:^;ti. l:^^^ ^^ 1 ^■^.^^3 LAND OF THE STANDING ROCKS. Captain Button writes: A spectacle of this kind is most impres-sive to the geologist. It brings into one view the co-ordinatedresults of observations made laboriously by months of travel andinspection in a very broad and rugged field. The great distancesthrough which the eye can reach, the aspect of cliffs towering aboveand beyond cliffs, the great cumulative altitude thus attained, theimmensity of the masses revealed, the boldness of form, the distinct-ness of the lines of stratification, and especially the brilliant coloring,subdued indeed, but also refined by the haze, give to the scene agrandeur which has few parallels. MARVELS OF NATURE. 47
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KANAB CANON. 48 ^MARVELS OF THE NEW WEST, Could anything be grander and more imposing than this Landof Standing Rocks ? It is difificult to suppress the thought thathuman industry and art have here reared vast granite temples andtowers, such as we read of in European cities. There has been notouch of the artist to exaggerate the scene, for it is taken from afaithful photographic view, and appears here just as it is in thewonderful canon of which it is a part. (See p. 46.) Albiquiu Peak is one of the most unique natural rock-formations inNew Mexico, and it becomes more interesting in consequence of theruins of an ancient pueblo which Macomb discovered on his way to the

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