. The Pacific tourist : Williams' illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean : containing full descriptions of railroad routes across the continent, all pleasure resorts and places of most noted scenery in the far West, also of all cities, towns, villages, Forts, springs, lakes, mountains, routes of summer travel, best localities for hunting, fishing, sporting, and enjoyment, with all needful information for the pleasure traveler, miner, settler, or business man : a complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific Railroads and all poin
. The Pacific tourist : Williams' illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean : containing full descriptions of railroad routes across the continent, all pleasure resorts and places of most noted scenery in the far West, also of all cities, towns, villages, Forts, springs, lakes, mountains, routes of summer travel, best localities for hunting, fishing, sporting, and enjoyment, with all needful information for the pleasure traveler, miner, settler, or business man : a complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific Railroads and all points of business or pleasure travel to California, Colorado, Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, Montana, the mines and mining of the territories, the lands of the Pacific Coast, the wonders of the Rocky Mountains, the scenery of the Sierra Nevadas, the Colorado mountains, the big trees, the geysers, the Yosemite, and the Yellowstone . ther place. chimney kock, near north pla Chimney Rock.—Near North Platte is thefar-famed Chimney Rock, two and a half milesfrom the south bank of the Platte River. It iscomposed of a friable yellowish marl, which canbe cut readily with the knife. It rises in theform of a thin, perpendicular shaft above a coni-cal mound, whose base slopes gradually outtoward the plains. It appears to be the re-newal of the old chain of hills and rocks whichbounded the valley, but which, from their soft-ness of material, have been disintegrated bywind and weather. This possessing harder ma-teria^ has withstood these effects, although it issteadily yielding. In the days of Fremonts ex-pedition, it was estimated that it was over 200feet in height, but other travelers and explorerswho had seenit years before, stated that itsheight had been as great as 500 feet. In thosedays it was a landmark visible for forty or fiftymiles; now it is hardly 35 feet in the waist of the base runs a white band. which sets off its height, and relieves the uni-form yellow tint.
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