. The Pacific tourist : Williams' illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean : containing full descriptions of railroad routes across the continent, all pleasure resorts and places of most noted scenery in the far West, also of all cities, towns, villages, Forts, springs, lakes, mountains, routes of summer travel, best localities for hunting, fishing, sporting, and enjoyment, with all needful information for the pleasure traveler, miner, settler, or business man : a complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific Railroads and all poin
. The Pacific tourist : Williams' illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean : containing full descriptions of railroad routes across the continent, all pleasure resorts and places of most noted scenery in the far West, also of all cities, towns, villages, Forts, springs, lakes, mountains, routes of summer travel, best localities for hunting, fishing, sporting, and enjoyment, with all needful information for the pleasure traveler, miner, settler, or business man : a complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific Railroads and all points of business or pleasure travel to California, Colorado, Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, Montana, the mines and mining of the territories, the lands of the Pacific Coast, the wonders of the Rocky Mountains, the scenery of the Sierra Nevadas, the Colorado mountains, the big trees, the geysers, the Yosemite, and the Yellowstone . CrystalFalls. Its height is 129 feet. The water firstfalls but five feet, and then down it goes fifteenfeet, falling into a beautiful rounded basin inwhich the clear water is perfectly placid. Fromthis basin the final leap over the rocky ledges istaken. Falls of the Yelloivstone and GrandCanon.—No language can do justice to thewonderful grandeur and beauty of the GrandCanon. In some respects it is the greatest won-der of all. It is a gorge carved by the river in volcanicrocks, to a depth increasing from nearly a thou-sand feet to over two thousand. Its length isabout thirty miles. The walls are inclined from45° to 80°, and in many places become are eroded into towers, spires, and min-arets. The striking feature of the remarkableview is the brilliancy of the colors. The purewhites of the decomposing feldspar are mingledwith sulphur yellows, and streaked with bands ofbright red, colored with iron. Dense pine forestsextend to the edge of the canon. At the bottom 283 Jk. of the chasm is the river,boiling and surging asit goes. The descen
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