. The Pacific tourist . :*11 * V-. SCI NTS IN Tin: lllMHoIIT Pt-SKKT. length. The height of the bluffs and of thepalisades below, is about the same as in theformer canon—8U0 feet. In some places the pal-isades are hollowed out like caves or openarches, and the debris that has crumbled andfallen from their summits during the ages,obscures their full form and height from view. Twelve Mile Canon, in the Palisades, wasgraded in six weeks by the Central PacificRailroad Company, one cut herein containingy,f)00 cubic yards. Five j\lile Canon just east-ward, was graded in three weeks, with a force of5
. The Pacific tourist . :*11 * V-. SCI NTS IN Tin: lllMHoIIT Pt-SKKT. length. The height of the bluffs and of thepalisades below, is about the same as in theformer canon—8U0 feet. In some places the pal-isades are hollowed out like caves or openarches, and the debris that has crumbled andfallen from their summits during the ages,obscures their full form and height from view. Twelve Mile Canon, in the Palisades, wasgraded in six weeks by the Central PacificRailroad Company, one cut herein containingy,f)00 cubic yards. Five j\lile Canon just east-ward, was graded in three weeks, with a force of5,0U0 to ^,000 men. With the perpendicular walls rising on eachside of us, we glide around the curves, and inthe midst of these reddish lines of, toweringrocks, arrive at l*tilisa(lef—576 miles from San Francisco,with an elevation of 4,841 feet. It is the initialpoint of the Eureka & Palisade Railroad, is agrowing little place between the wall rocks of theriver, and has a population of from 150 to 200souls. It has one or tw
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