. The Pacific tourist : Adams & Bishop's illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean ... : a complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific railroads ... . urned up infront like ther u n n e r of askate, and wax-ed to m a k eihem slip easi-ly o v e r thesnow. Near tilemiddle is aleather thatlaces over theinstep (a skele-ton half- h )e),and out ofwhich the footwill slip in caseof a fall or acci-dent. A long poleis carried likea rope-dancersto preserve abaa c^, and tostraddle and situ J) <) n f o r abrake, w hendesce n ding aliill. They ar
. The Pacific tourist : Adams & Bishop's illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean ... : a complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific railroads ... . urned up infront like ther u n n e r of askate, and wax-ed to m a k eihem slip easi-ly o v e r thesnow. Near tilemiddle is aleather thatlaces over theinstep (a skele-ton half- h )e),and out ofwhich the footwill slip in caseof a fall or acci-dent. A long poleis carried likea rope-dancersto preserve abaa c^, and tostraddle and situ J) <) n f o r abrake, w hendesce n ding aliill. They areessential tosafety in thesestoinis. As I watched the falling snow, nothing couldexceed the beauty. As it curled and shotthrough the air, tlie mountains were shut outwith a gauzy veil and darker mists. Now andthen I caugiit a glimpse of a clump of pines onthe mountain sidin indistinct and gray in shadow,and as the fitful snow favored the straining eye,the long white boughs seem-d bendintr as if con-scious of the enormous weight that threatenedevery living thing. N\h Ml the clouds broke snddenlv away, a floodof golden light leaped from hill to hill. Tli tallpines, partly green, but now like i)yramids of. MARVS LAKK. MIHKOK \IKW. snow, lift their heads above the mountain in less than fifteen minutes aft^r the firstsight of the sun, a long stratum of dark cloudcame down the mountain, and the snow fallsthicker and faster than ever. Its hard crystalswere driven so furiously as to make ones cheeksburn, and give exquisite torture to the looked u}X)n the rapid river, and around itssnow-capped rocks the water played in foamingcascades. The enormous snow-plows at length grappledwith this monster of the elements. From east and west came reports of ava-lanches, snow sheds down, trains wrecked andsnow-bound, and soon the telegraph refused to do its he ponder-ous engineswere thiow^Hfrom the railsin the streets,before oui- eyes,by the h a i dcrystals whichthey cr
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