. The Pacific tourist : Williams' illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean : containing full descriptions of railroad routes ... A complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific railroads ... . eedingly curious, and their aver-age height, .500 to 800 feet. At the amphithe-atre, and the Steamboat Rock, the height isfully 800 feet to the summit. There is a boldprojection in the wall of rock near the Pulpit,called Hanging Rock; but it is composed of ama^s of coarse conglomerate, which is easilywashed away, and is not very easily noticed. Pu
. The Pacific tourist : Williams' illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean : containing full descriptions of railroad routes ... A complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific railroads ... . eedingly curious, and their aver-age height, .500 to 800 feet. At the amphithe-atre, and the Steamboat Rock, the height isfully 800 feet to the summit. There is a boldprojection in the wall of rock near the Pulpit,called Hanging Rock; but it is composed of ama^s of coarse conglomerate, which is easilywashed away, and is not very easily noticed. Pulpit Rock overlooks Echo City and the val-ley of the AV^eber, through whicli flows a purebeautiful mountain stream. Li one of ourillustrations is shown a railroad train passingtlirough this vallej^ and descending to the en-ti-ance of Weber Canon just below. This is thesketch of the special excursion train of the NewYork and Eastern Editorial Excursion Partyof 1875, who, at this part, tlie center of the val-ley, midway between the two canons, were pro-fuse in iheir exclamations of delight at thescene of beauty. A curious feature of Echo Canon is that itsscenery is entirely on the right or north side,and that the Weber Canon has, also, upon the. MOVt MENT KOCK —ECHO C \^ ^N^ same side, its wildest and most chaiacteiisticscenery. The entrance and departure fromeach canon is distinguished with great abrupt-ness and distinctness Travelers who can enjoythe fortunate position of the lowest step on theplatform of each car, can witness all the scenesof Echo and Weber Canons, to the best advan-tage. The view is particularly fine,—as whenthe train describes the sharp turn, under andaround Pulpit Rock, the view from the last plat-form includes the whole length of the tiain onthe curve,—and overhead the jutting jioint ofthe rock, and, farther alwve, the massive RockI^Iountain, the overlook to the entire valley. Justas the train rounds at Pulpit Rock, passengers TMM ^maiFia F&wmiBF. 12
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