. William H. Seward's travels around the world. MOUNTAIN NOMENCLATURE. 13 How odd and yet how significant is the nomenclature of themountain scenery : Eecl Desert, Table Rock, Black Butte, Bitter Creek! Now, slowly by winding grades, we climb theWaksatch Range, only five hundred feet lower than Sherman ; westand on the eastern rim of the central basin of the continent. We. DEVIL 8 GATE, WEBEE CANON. recognize and hail the rugged yellow cliff and far-reaching plain, which, under the light of a gorgeous sunset, Leutze has copied in his great fresco in the Capitol, Westward the Course t>f Empi
. William H. Seward's travels around the world. MOUNTAIN NOMENCLATURE. 13 How odd and yet how significant is the nomenclature of themountain scenery : Eecl Desert, Table Rock, Black Butte, Bitter Creek! Now, slowly by winding grades, we climb theWaksatch Range, only five hundred feet lower than Sherman ; westand on the eastern rim of the central basin of the continent. We. DEVIL 8 GATE, WEBEE CANON. recognize and hail the rugged yellow cliff and far-reaching plain, which, under the light of a gorgeous sunset, Leutze has copied in his great fresco in the Capitol, Westward the Course t>f Empire takes its Way. Hence we hurry rapidly downward toward the reservoir3 14 UNITED STATES, CANADA, AND PACIFIC OCEAN. of the basin, the broad, blue Salt Lake. The face of the WahsatchMountains wears no resemblance to Atlantic scenery. These dis-jointed masses of rocks, fractured and shivered, look as if they hadresisted lightning, tempest, ice, and flood, for ages. Sublime devas-tation ! The Weber River, here only a foaming torrent, has workedout for itself an arched passage darker and more majestic thanGothic art ever designed. The mountain-dwellers call it the DevilsGate. There are miles where a declivity, otherwise unbroken, pre-sents at irregular intervals a high, conical basalt rock, standing likethe tower of a castle whose domes and walls have been swept away,
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