. Sights and scenes in Utah for tourists . , as well as the picturesqueness,of the Wahsatch Range should be noticed. Thelower rocks are a series in alternating layers of quartz,mica, and hornblendic schists. Above these rests aheavy bed of quartzites, with very regular anddistinctly marked stratifications. Above the quartz- 36. 37 itcs is a bed of ashen gray limestones, probably of theSilurian age, and a group of shales, clays, and quartz-ites mtervenes between this and another bed of lime-stone, which belongs to the Carboniferous age. In Weber Canon, and on the east side of the rangefrom Ogde
. Sights and scenes in Utah for tourists . , as well as the picturesqueness,of the Wahsatch Range should be noticed. Thelower rocks are a series in alternating layers of quartz,mica, and hornblendic schists. Above these rests aheavy bed of quartzites, with very regular anddistinctly marked stratifications. Above the quartz- 36. 37 itcs is a bed of ashen gray limestones, probably of theSilurian age, and a group of shales, clays, and quartz-ites mtervenes between this and another bed of lime-stone, which belongs to the Carboniferous age. In Weber Canon, and on the east side of the rangefrom Ogden, there is a large group of quartzites pass-ing up into silicious limestones, and capped with redsandstones, which are overlaid by bluish-gray lime-stones containing Jurassic fossils. As we pass down the Weber Valley the scene isreally a pastoral one. The broad plain left by theencircling mountains is green and fresh; the riverwinds through its grassy expanse in pleasant quietwithout brawl or rush; the trees are like those infamiliar Eastern country-side. Only the great out-lines of the surrounding hills, and here and there onthe horizon of some sharper, higher, more distantpeaks show the traveler his whereabouts, and takehis mind from the quieter aspect of what lies abouthim; near by, in valleys leading into J:his, ar
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