. Echoes from the Rocky Mountains : reminiscences and thrilling incidents of the romantic and golden age of the great West, with a graphic account of its discovery, settlement, and grand development . suchquantities I know not. I think they must have rained down fromsome planet overhead which, having a superabundance, just opened itsport holes in the skies and dropped them into space. Fortunately, orotherwise, they fell upon Cobblestone Hill and lie there to day, amemento of the rough experience of the old overland traveler. But still, foot by foot, we drop down from these lofty Sierras tomore
. Echoes from the Rocky Mountains : reminiscences and thrilling incidents of the romantic and golden age of the great West, with a graphic account of its discovery, settlement, and grand development . suchquantities I know not. I think they must have rained down fromsome planet overhead which, having a superabundance, just opened itsport holes in the skies and dropped them into space. Fortunately, orotherwise, they fell upon Cobblestone Hill and lie there to day, amemento of the rough experience of the old overland traveler. But still, foot by foot, we drop down from these lofty Sierras tomore fertile spots made habitable for man. At Bear River Station,destined later on to become during the construction of the Union FacificRailroad the scene of a busy mart and the cemetery of many a boldpioneer, as well as bloodthirsty outlaw, was a small Mormon settlement,presided over by a bishop of that church. Here we stopped for restand refreshment before hurrying on through Echo Canon, one of thegrandest and most beautiful spots amid the wilderness of scenery ofthat wild mountain range. For thirty miles we pass through a deeprocky gorge, nearly three-fourths of a mile wide at its head. On its. ECHO CANON. 255 ECHOES FROM THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS. 257 right are lofty precipitous cliffs that rise up 500 feet at various points,bare and brown and wave-washed by the storms that beat upon themin Alpine gales, with foothills lying at an angle of 45° from northeastto southeast. On the left, protected from the driving storms of wind and rain,lies a succession of sloping hills filled with green verdure, swelling-upward to a considerable height, while far below them in the centerof the gorge sparkles a bright transparent stream. Here, for ages ithas with unceasing effort ground its way through rock and boulderuntil it has carved a channel bed twenty-four feet deep. All the earthis clothed in grasses, the rocks with mosses and the border of the riverwith green sward, overshadowed by the folia
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