. The vacationers' story of their trip from east to west and home again . animals or objects andhave been named accordingly. Helen Hunt Jackson whosegrave on South Cheyenne Mountain overlooked the garden—her body has since been taken up and removed to the ceme-tery at Colorado Springs—bestowed many of the names. Con-spicuous among the formations are balanced rock, steamboat,Punch and Judy, the mushroom group, among which the Toadand Toadstools appear, wine cellar, baggage and baggagemaster, Scotchman, eagle, elephant head, bear, seal, kissingcamels, Chicago girls foot, Siamese twins, Mother Gr
. The vacationers' story of their trip from east to west and home again . animals or objects andhave been named accordingly. Helen Hunt Jackson whosegrave on South Cheyenne Mountain overlooked the garden—her body has since been taken up and removed to the ceme-tery at Colorado Springs—bestowed many of the names. Con-spicuous among the formations are balanced rock, steamboat,Punch and Judy, the mushroom group, among which the Toadand Toadstools appear, wine cellar, baggage and baggagemaster, Scotchman, eagle, elephant head, bear, seal, kissingcamels, Chicago girls foot, Siamese twins, Mother Grundy,sentinels, Chinese temple, cathedral spires, the three gracesand the tower of Babel. The tower, the highest rock in theGarden, is 380 feet high. One of the gateway rocks is 330feet high and a man who had climbed to the top of it lookedas seen from the driveway about the size of a crow. Just out-side the gateway is gypsum hill, a mound of soft, milkwhitestone which is used for making ornaments and souvenirs. Pikes Peak was our next objective point and the day,. Punch and Judy—Garden of the Gods i l^pjpijnp * j ^mm* iff _ >rtv .•• tr ■■.:-:*ta Toad and Stools—Garden of the Gods
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