. Scenery of the Pacific railways, and Colorado . o awful heights, and occasionally split by transverse chasms, into which a ray of sunshinenever creeps. In places the cliffs above overarch and almost form a tunnel, and again they wideninto a picturesque valley. About eight miles from Bowlder City, at the junction of the North andMiddle Canons, a cascade pours its avalanche over a ledge sixty feet high, and impending over thisspot is an immense dome-shaped cliff of barren rock. Branch railways diverge southward fromBowlder to Golden, and northward to Longmont. The stage-road through the Middle
. Scenery of the Pacific railways, and Colorado . o awful heights, and occasionally split by transverse chasms, into which a ray of sunshinenever creeps. In places the cliffs above overarch and almost form a tunnel, and again they wideninto a picturesque valley. About eight miles from Bowlder City, at the junction of the North andMiddle Canons, a cascade pours its avalanche over a ledge sixty feet high, and impending over thisspot is an immense dome-shaped cliff of barren rock. Branch railways diverge southward fromBowlder to Golden, and northward to Longmont. The stage-road through the Middle Canon crosses the stream many times before it emerges, andnear the western end it brings us close to the Dome already mentioned, which consists of a detachedcolumn of crystallized granite nearly 400 feet high. Under its eastern side is a recess not unhke apiazza, which affords welcome protection from the passing storm. Marvelous forms worked by windand water appeal to the imagination with the oddest suggestions, and before you have gone far you. Green Lake, Colorado. are probably willing to concede a certain miraculous quality to Rocky Mountain scenery which neitherthe Himalayas nor the Alps can claim. Passing the Dome, the traveler next arrives at Nederlands, and can continue by stage thence toCentral City, which is surrounded by mines. This is a prosperous and vigorous little town, too, whichhas risen within a year from the ashes to which it was reduced by a destructive conflagration, and now THE PACIFIC RAILWAYS. 17 presents finer buildings than it ever possessed before. Located in a gulch, which rises 1,500 feet inthree miles, it is one of a string of village-cities—Black Hawk, Mountain, Central, and Nevada—eachone greater in altitude than the other, and having together a population of about 7,000 souls.
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