. William H. Seward's travels around the world. e energetic, enterprising andpersevering men. Mountaineers are always frugal and brave, aswell as intense lovers of Their loyalty will never fail, ifthe Union shall continue to deserve it. 12 UNITED STATES, CANADA, AND PACIFIC OCEAN. Sherman, August 19^A.—Sherman, eight thousand feet abovethe sea! We have made a winding way between the crests of theBlack Hills, and these are only a lower tier of the snow-clad moun-tains. -The pass is treeless, shrubless, flowerless; the rocks on themountain-sides massive, brown, monotonous. What were th
. William H. Seward's travels around the world. e energetic, enterprising andpersevering men. Mountaineers are always frugal and brave, aswell as intense lovers of Their loyalty will never fail, ifthe Union shall continue to deserve it. 12 UNITED STATES, CANADA, AND PACIFIC OCEAN. Sherman, August 19^A.—Sherman, eight thousand feet abovethe sea! We have made a winding way between the crests of theBlack Hills, and these are only a lower tier of the snow-clad moun-tains. -The pass is treeless, shrubless, flowerless; the rocks on themountain-sides massive, brown, monotonous. What were the EockyMountains made for? Some of their uses are obvious. A water-shed, they irrigate the continent, while they stimulate humanactivity by obstructing movement and hiding mineral gently descending the western slope five hundred feet, wecome upon the great grassy plain of Laramie, on which civilizationis making rapid advancement. Five hundred feet lower, throughbeds of crumbling red sandstone, we land on a broad floor of cannel-. WAH8ATCH RANGE. coal. Prudent Nature foresaw the Pacific Kailroad and the mining-shaft. Onward forty miles, downward how many feet we do notknow, in the Wahsatch Valley, we come to a settlement which bearsthe ominous name of It is the parting between thetributaries of the Atlantic and the Pacific Ocean.
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