. The Contributor A Monthly Magazine. ack of the piney MOCXTAIN SCENERY OF UTAH. 269 fringes of these parks, the ruddy quartzite size ! From head to foot, as he liescliffs frown down, while at the head of stretched out, he will measure over athe basin, aerial, majestic, overtopping thousand feet; his tomb is a quarter of aeverythin g,arises the weirdoutline of ReedsPeak, a giganticsarcop hagu sand nothingelse. You seeits resemblanceto a great sep-ulchre at thefirst glance andnever forget itas long as thepeak is in sloping baseabout whosefeet are crystalfonts—a coffin-shaped massresting
. The Contributor A Monthly Magazine. ack of the piney MOCXTAIN SCENERY OF UTAH. 269 fringes of these parks, the ruddy quartzite size ! From head to foot, as he liescliffs frown down, while at the head of stretched out, he will measure over athe basin, aerial, majestic, overtopping thousand feet; his tomb is a quarter of aeverythin g,arises the weirdoutline of ReedsPeak, a giganticsarcop hagu sand nothingelse. You seeits resemblanceto a great sep-ulchre at thefirst glance andnever forget itas long as thepeak is in sloping baseabout whosefeet are crystalfonts—a coffin-shaped massresting squarelyon its pedestal—a line of orna-mentation sharpand true, as ifcarved by hand— another slababove it, squareand plumb; andon the top aneffigy. prone onits back, its face,neck, breast,body, knees,and feet as fairlyproportioned asif modelled bythe artists of therenaissance whomade the effi-gies of kingsand queensthat lie in andWestmin s t e r ;but this giantimage of t li emountains restson its 1 o f t ycouch with a. matchless repose moresubtly wrought than comes within thepower of man. And of what colossal Canton of Ladore. mile wide and several miles in circumfer-ence; his brow is lifted higher to the skythan any earthly thing around ; it is the 270 THE FIRST TELESCOPE. first to catch the winters snow and thelast to lose it; the rays of the morningsun are flung across his face before thevalleys have awakened from the shadesof night, and in the evening the deep redglow lingers about his feet when all theworld below is fading in the twilight; thewhirling winds whistle across him, therains and the tempests encompass himabout, but still he rests unchanged, un-changeable in his solemn repose. Way off to the eastern end of theUintah mountain range, Green River cutsthrough its magnificent chasm, which formany years has been known as the Canonof Ladore. How this wild river couldever have forced its way directly acrossone of the greatest chains of the RoCkyMountains
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