. "Around the circle." . y, sometimes inbroad daylight, spangled with stars, is seen above. Ill look no more ; my brain turn, and the deficient sightTopple down headlong. Unlike many of the Colorado canons, the scenery in this one is kaleido-scopic, ever changing. Here the train glides along between the close, regularand exalted walls then suddenly it passes the mouth of another mighty canonwhich looks as if it were a great gateway to an unroofed arcade leading fromthe pathway of some monstrous giant. Now, at a sharp turn, ChippctaFalls, a stream of liquid crystal, pitches from the top of
. "Around the circle." . y, sometimes inbroad daylight, spangled with stars, is seen above. Ill look no more ; my brain turn, and the deficient sightTopple down headlong. Unlike many of the Colorado canons, the scenery in this one is kaleido-scopic, ever changing. Here the train glides along between the close, regularand exalted walls then suddenly it passes the mouth of another mighty canonwhich looks as if it were a great gateway to an unroofed arcade leading fromthe pathway of some monstrous giant. Now, at a sharp turn, ChippctaFalls, a stream of liquid crystal, pitches from the top of the dizzy cliffs to thebosom ol the sparkling river which dashes beside the road. Then a spaciousamphitheater is passed, in the centre of which stands Currecanti Needle,solitary and alone, a towering monument of solid stone, which reaches towhere it flaunts the clouds, like some great cathedral spire. Truly there isno gorge in all the Rocky range that presents such variety and grandeur asthe Black CaHon of the TOLTEC GOKGE. Around the Circle. 37 MARSHALL PASS. Marshall Pass is entered almost imperceptibly from Poncha Pass, and thewhole wonderful ascent might very readily be imagined as one and the summit is almost eleven thousand feet above the sea, and the tortuousmethod by which the daring engineers of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroadhave achieved this summit can best be understood by a glance at the cutillustratmg the alignment of the track, shown on another page. As the trainprogresses up the steep the view becomes less obstructed by mountain sidesand the eye roams over miles of cone-shaped summits. The timberless topsof towering ranges show him that he is among the heights and in a regionfamiliar with the clouds. Then he beholds, stretching away to the left, themost perfect of all, the Sierras. The sunlight falls with a white, transfiguringradiance upon the snow-crowned spires of the Sangre de Cristo range. Theirsharp and dazzling pyramids, which near
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