. Over the plains, on the mountains; or, Kansas, Colorado, and the Rocky mountains; agriculturally, mineralogically and aesthetically described. fir and pine, and its sides Acry rugged, then intermits andbecomes narroAver and bolder. Huge rocks obstruct thepassage of the water. It pitches OAer some and forms aseries of cascades, others deflect it and dash it against theperpendicular Avail of the canyon, Avhence it and closer the canyon contracts, and higher andsteeper arise its Avails. A dense grove of spruce trees,narroAV and tapering as chiirch steeples, and two Inindredand f
. Over the plains, on the mountains; or, Kansas, Colorado, and the Rocky mountains; agriculturally, mineralogically and aesthetically described. fir and pine, and its sides Acry rugged, then intermits andbecomes narroAver and bolder. Huge rocks obstruct thepassage of the water. It pitches OAer some and forms aseries of cascades, others deflect it and dash it against theperpendicular Avail of the canyon, Avhence it and closer the canyon contracts, and higher andsteeper arise its Avails. A dense grove of spruce trees,narroAV and tapering as chiirch steeples, and two Inindredand fifty feet high, croAvded each other so closely as to fillup the entire chasm betAveen the Avails, completely shiit-^ OVER THE rL.\INS AND 0\ THK MOUNTAINS. 99 ting out the light, and shrouding oveiything ^vitli twilightgloom at noonday. The imposing grandeur of the appear-ance now may he fliirly conceived, but not realized, whento this solemn, almost dismal scenery, is a<hled the milk-white waters of the river rushing down the rocky decliv-ity, dashed hither aiid thither hy the obstructions, roaringand casting their spray in your KAGLK CLIFF, COULDEll Aiioii, ilui scene changes. Light breaks in :tiid dis-perees tlie gloom; and the canyon is clear again of trees,excepting the long, tapering spruce sapplings that run upand seem to lay against its walls. But look ! twenty rodsahead a perpendicular mountain, three thousand feet high,is thrown across the canjon at right angles, and theregeems n(j ]>ossihle outlet from it. But soon a break is 100 OVKR THE AM) THE MOrVTArNH. flccn to unfold the Icfli and on turning theanglo, the eunyon walls, instead of contiuuouH rock, arocomposed of dissevered mountains, crowded against eachother, varying from 1,500 to ^,000 feet, Bometimes expas-ing large, cragg}-, naked rocks, and at other times clothedwith evergreens to their summits. To the left is what ap-pears as the half of a huge red granite n
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