Shoshone, and other western wonders . and domes and colonnades? Some arealmost without a break from top to base ; otherscontain a succession of shelves, each supportingsome quaint ornamentation of brilliant one instance is a row of towers, more thanthree thousand feet high, quarried out of thepalisade and well advanced from its face; inanother is a domelike mass, white as chalk andstreaked with ribbons of carmine. Temples andcathedrals are everywhere, flashing their richtints upon the region above which they rise, andtheir bases extending into the depths where theriver runs. Wherever
Shoshone, and other western wonders . and domes and colonnades? Some arealmost without a break from top to base ; otherscontain a succession of shelves, each supportingsome quaint ornamentation of brilliant one instance is a row of towers, more thanthree thousand feet high, quarried out of thepalisade and well advanced from its face; inanother is a domelike mass, white as chalk andstreaked with ribbons of carmine. Temples andcathedrals are everywhere, flashing their richtints upon the region above which they rise, andtheir bases extending into the depths where theriver runs. Wherever he goes one will see thesame beautiful creations; and to relieve the gen-eral features of any possible monotony he willhere and there, far down in the levels of thecanons, find narrow patches of bright-green ver-dure, fringed with brown banks of talus throwndown from the cliffs above. In all the Westthere is no district so well worth ones study asthat of the Colorado Canon ; and the geologicalreports about it are fascinating CASTLE GATE. THROUGH THE HEART OF COLORADO. II5 Beyond Green River and Castle Valley com-mences the steep ascent of the Wasatch Moun-tains, and the beautiful in nature again appears,the first effect being Castle Gate, guarding theentrance to Price River Canon, through whichthe railway runs. Castle Gate is similar in manyrespects to the gateway to the Garden of theGods. The two huge pillars, or ledges of rockcomposing it, are offshoots of the cliffs are of different heights, one measuringfive hundred, and the other four hundred andfifty feet, from top to base. They are richlydyed with red; and the firs and pines grow-ing about them, but reaching only to theirlower strata, render this coloring more noticeableand beautiful. Between the two sharp promon-tories, separated only by a narrow space, theriver and the railway both run, one pressingclosely against the other. The stream leapsover a rocky bed, and its banks are lined withtangled bru
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