. The Pacific tourist : Williams' illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean : containing full descriptions of railroad routes ... A complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific railroads ... . urn afour horse teamand wagon with-o u t extent ofthe outer part ofthe cave is about40 feet, where ahuge fallen rockprecludes f u r -ther access with-out inconven-ience. The lakeand its mount-ain islands, andthe ranges be-yond, now comegrandly intoview on thenorth side ofthe next sta-tion is Black Ilocic,—17 1-2 milesfrom
. The Pacific tourist : Williams' illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean : containing full descriptions of railroad routes ... A complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific railroads ... . urn afour horse teamand wagon with-o u t extent ofthe outer part ofthe cave is about40 feet, where ahuge fallen rockprecludes f u r -ther access with-out inconven-ience. The lakeand its mount-ain islands, andthe ranges be-yond, now comegrandly intoview on thenorth side ofthe next sta-tion is Black Ilocic,—17 1-2 milesfrom Salt LakeC i t y,—a s t a -tion named froma rock, darkenough to be called black, rising in the lakeabout 100 yards from the shore. It is nearlyflat on the top, and with a little effort can beeasily ascended. Jutting out from the shore,and a short distance from the station, is LionsHead Rock. Beyond this is ObservationPoint, from which the Goose Creek Mountains,145 miles north, can be seen in a clear day, withtheir white peaks glistening in the northern point of the Oquirrh Range herecomes close to the lake, and what seems to be afew scattering trees, or groves of trees, high upon the mountain, contain millions of feet of pine. LIONS HKAD BOOK.—GEBAT SALT LAKE. lumber, if it could only be made under Observation Point, on the veryedge of the lake shore stands a stone house,formerly kept as a hotel for pleasure seekers, butnow the private property of John W. Young,Esq. Whoever occupies it hereafter, can verynearly be rocked in the cradle of the deep, or,at least, be lulled to sleep by the murmur of therestless waves. Standing upon ObservationPoint, before you, a little to the left, rises therock from which the station is named; beyondand to the left still, Kimballs Island rises out ofthe sea twenty-two miles away; while off to the right is ChurchIsland, 14 milesaway : they donot look half thedistance, butthe rarified at-m o s p h e r e ofthese el
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