The pioneers of '49 A history of the excursion of the Society of California pioneers of New England . r THE ROYAL GORGE. 236 piojYEErs of 49. as that of the Black Canon, and that of the Royal Gorge, I have never seen elsewhere. ButMarshall Pass finds two formidable rivals, so far as its slopes are concerned, in the route from. MOUNT OV THE JIOLV CROSS. Locarno to Lucerne and the Summering Pass in the Noric Alps, although one loses much ofhis enthusiasm in going to Lucerne as he passes through the forty-nine tunnels, one of which. ASTONISHED ABORIGIXES. 237 St. Gothard, is nine and one quarter
The pioneers of '49 A history of the excursion of the Society of California pioneers of New England . r THE ROYAL GORGE. 236 piojYEErs of 49. as that of the Black Canon, and that of the Royal Gorge, I have never seen elsewhere. ButMarshall Pass finds two formidable rivals, so far as its slopes are concerned, in the route from. MOUNT OV THE JIOLV CROSS. Locarno to Lucerne and the Summering Pass in the Noric Alps, although one loses much ofhis enthusiasm in going to Lucerne as he passes through the forty-nine tunnels, one of which. ASTONISHED ABORIGIXES. 237 St. Gothard, is nine and one quarter miles long. At ^Marshall Pass we beat up the moun-tain, as sailors say, and look up at the lofty, snow-clad peaks towering above us; while in theAlpine passes named, we climb by circling the mountains and look down upon pretty lakes andvillages far below. But when the summit is attained, I think Marshall Pass affords a finerview than the others named. We emerge at last from the great rock portals of the Royal Gorge, and see the Coloradopenitentiary on our left as we approach Canon City. Here we made a short halt andarrived at Pueblo, forty miles further, at noon. It was very hot here, about 90 degrees in theshade I should think. i\Ir. Thayer was readv with dinner, and we \vere soon niovinjr on asainto Colorado Springs,
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