. Salt Lake City, with a sketch of the route of the Union and Central Pacific Railroads, from Omaha to Salt Lake City, and from Ogden to San Francisco /with 12 illustrations from photographs by Savage . he Devils Gate,a breach in the barrier of the Rocky Mountains, whichmight well serve as the portal to some enchanted height of the huge dark perpendicular cliffs on eitherhand varies from 400 to 500 feet; the space between them 24 SALT LAKE CITY, AND THE WAY THITHER. is nowhere more than 105feet, in many is scarcely 40feet wide; the total lengthof the gap is 650 to 700
. Salt Lake City, with a sketch of the route of the Union and Central Pacific Railroads, from Omaha to Salt Lake City, and from Ogden to San Francisco /with 12 illustrations from photographs by Savage . he Devils Gate,a breach in the barrier of the Rocky Mountains, whichmight well serve as the portal to some enchanted height of the huge dark perpendicular cliffs on eitherhand varies from 400 to 500 feet; the space between them 24 SALT LAKE CITY, AND THE WAY THITHER. is nowhere more than 105feet, in many is scarcely 40feet wide; the total lengthof the gap is 650 to 700 walls consist of a graygranite traversed by trapdykes : and the rock in whichthe river has excavated herstiange and difficult channelruns right through the ex-treme southern shoulder ofa ridge appropriately enoughnamed the RattlesnakeHills. Through the profound fis-sure sweeps and plunges andsplashes the swift stream,eddying round rocky points,and tumbling over massyboulders, wakening up theneighbouring echoes with herunceasing song, which variesfrom sounds like those ofmerry laughter to a dirge assad and solemn as was everbreathed over a heros spectacle is ever freshand ever new, and would. delight the artist and thepoet. SNAKE OR LEWIS RIVER. The Snake River Valleylies to the north of the GreatSalt Lake, and mostly outof the track of are pictures on itsbanks and in its neighbour-hood, however, which mightinspire a great artist withimmortal ideas. One of thebrightest of these is pre-sented at the point where theUnknown River, as it ismysteriously called, suddenlyleaps into the light of dayfrom the rocky walls whichenclose the waters of theSnake River, pouring downthe craggy descent in a doublecascade, which sparkles inthe sun with rainbow huesand fills the air with theechoes of its tumultuouscourse. This, assuredly, is THE DEVILS GATE, WEBER OANON. SALT LAKE CITY, AND THE WAY THITHER. 25 one of the greatest natural curiosities in the WesternWorld ; a
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