The Great West: its attractions and resourcesContaining a popular description of the marvellous scenery, physical geography, fossils, and glaciers of this wonderful region; and the recent explorations in the Yellowstone park ..by ..Also, valuable information to travellers and settlers concerning climate, health, mining, husbandry, education, the Indians, Mormonism, the Chinese; with the homestead, pre-emption, land, and mining laws . efrom toadopt any course from which relief may be obtained. The most pleasantsugar-coated remedy we know of is to live in Colorado, thus recoveringt
The Great West: its attractions and resourcesContaining a popular description of the marvellous scenery, physical geography, fossils, and glaciers of this wonderful region; and the recent explorations in the Yellowstone park ..by ..Also, valuable information to travellers and settlers concerning climate, health, mining, husbandry, education, the Indians, Mormonism, the Chinese; with the homestead, pre-emption, land, and mining laws . efrom toadopt any course from which relief may be obtained. The most pleasantsugar-coated remedy we know of is to live in Colorado, thus recoveringthe lost powers of assimilation, and in its bright days, inducing out-of-door exercise, and its cool nights, wherein refreshing slumber is assured,find a sovereign panacea for one of the most grievous ills that flesh is heirto. Once more may food be relished and enjoyed, and hearty meals bemade on substantial bread, blood-invigorating beef, tempting mountain-trout, and juicy wild meats, without the fear of an after-punishment. Many other diseases that afflict humanity are partially eradicated orrelieved by a change of residence to the altitudes of the Rocky Moun-tains, but it would be impossible to enumerate them all. There is anexception, however, it would be proper to name—catarrh. It is ex-tremely doubtful if the peculiar dryness of the atmosphere is favorableto the cure of this disease. In fact, it is asserted by high authorities that. MOUNTAIN OF THE HOLY CROSS, COLORADO. COLORADO. 105 the dryness tends to aggravate many cases by forming concretions on theinflamed mucous surfaces, and so irritating them. The rainfall is someagre, the fine dust so common, that these are causes naturally tendingto further the advance, rather than retard the progress, of catarrh. Thereis no country yet discovered in this world that has in it the elements ofcure for every ill that human flesh is unfortunately subject to. Whensuch a country is discovered on this habitable globe, paradise will
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