The Yosemite, Alaska, and the Yellowstone . and. The mapmakerhas again kindly taken out all curvatures, and the reader will notice thatthe Rock Island route is positively a bee-line from Chicago to he dont find it so in practice that is no fault of the mapmaker, whocertainly has done his best in the case. That evening we reached Rock Island, where the Government has oneof its finest arsenals, and crossed the Mississippi under the soft light of the 12 The Yosemite, Alaska, and the Yellowstone. full moon. The river was greatly swollen by the recent rains, and lookedalmost like the ocean
The Yosemite, Alaska, and the Yellowstone . and. The mapmakerhas again kindly taken out all curvatures, and the reader will notice thatthe Rock Island route is positively a bee-line from Chicago to he dont find it so in practice that is no fault of the mapmaker, whocertainly has done his best in the case. That evening we reached Rock Island, where the Government has oneof its finest arsenals, and crossed the Mississippi under the soft light of the 12 The Yosemite, Alaska, and the Yellowstone. full moon. The river was greatly swollen by the recent rains, and lookedalmost like the ocean, but the tracks were so high that the Hoods caused nodelay nor even anxiety. Saturday morning, May 7, found us speeding over the fertile pasturelands rolling in green billows to the horizon and clotted with herds of cattle,the horses in their winter coats looking as if they were sadly in need of ashave or were developing into the celebrated winged steeds of Council Bluffs we stopped a short time, and one of the party bought a. Fig. 9. Hoeseshoe Canon, Ottawa, Illinois. paper, which banner of the hustling West was dated Sunday, May 8 ; anissue twenty-four hours in advance seeming to be considered the proper sortof enterprise in a western journal. However, he was equal to the occasion,and said immediately, Here, I dont want this back number, give meMondays paper. The cameras had been diligently at work all day, and the owners metto compare notes, when it appeared that one gentleman who had beenparticularly active and who was under the impression that he must have Nebraska. 13 nearly exhausted his films, found that he had been taking pictures all dayon a white paper roll, which is used to teach beginners, he having, in hisdesire to get everything, entirely forgotten to remove this practice this days trip we were frequently in doubt as to our further progress,for we were crossing the level country in Nebraska, and the water was onall sides. To add to the
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