. William H. Seward's travels around the world. ization know no such word as fail. We record our thanks to General Auger for the kind atten-tions shown us at the garrison, and for his orders providing forour safety and comfort through his wide department; and to thejudges, members of the bar, and other citizens for .their publicand private hospitalities- 10 UNITED STATES, CANADA, AND PACIFIC OCEAN. Cheyenne, Augiist 17th.—Onward and upward, a niglit and aday in a distance of five hundred miles; we have gained a heightof five thousand feet on the slope of the Rocky Mountains. Thecountry seems,
. William H. Seward's travels around the world. ization know no such word as fail. We record our thanks to General Auger for the kind atten-tions shown us at the garrison, and for his orders providing forour safety and comfort through his wide department; and to thejudges, members of the bar, and other citizens for .their publicand private hospitalities- 10 UNITED STATES, CANADA, AND PACIFIC OCEAN. Cheyenne, Augiist 17th.—Onward and upward, a niglit and aday in a distance of five hundred miles; we have gained a heightof five thousand feet on the slope of the Rocky Mountains. Thecountry seems, nevertheless, a level plain. There is neither crag,nor rock, nor dell; and even the flow of the beautiful Platte River,though quick and free, is without cascade or rapids. We have passedalmost imperceptibly from a landscape of Indian corn and wheatfields, orchards, and vineyards, to an endless slope covered withshort and grayish, but nutritious blue-grass, late the pasturage ofcountless buffalo-herds, now replaced by scattered droves of lank. CHEYENNE. cattle, driven here from Texas Mexico. The gopher freely dis-ports himself in our way; the antelope, as if under a fascination,shyly gazes upon us with his soft blue eyes; and the prairie-dogs,sitting erect at the doors of their tenements, solemnly review usfrom their thousand cities. We expected, on arriving here, to seethe towering Black Hills, and perhaps the more distant SnowyRange ; but the thermometer has fallen to 36°, and the barometerwe know not how low. Heavy clouds rest on the earth all aroundus, and nothing can be seen beyond or over them. INFLUENCE OF MOUNTAIN STATES. 11 The Territory of Wyoming, of which Cheyenne is the capital,has a population outside of the town not exceeding two thousand,Cheyenne grew rapidly during the construction of the Pacific Rail-road, but now, suffering a decline, it may number twenty-five hun-dred. It has, however, just been connected by railroad withDenver, and so with St. Louis.
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