. Salt Lake City, with a sketch of the route of the Union and Central Pacific Railroads, from Omaha to Salt Lake City, and from Ogden to San Francisco /with 12 illustrations from photographs by Savage . angerous locality for warlike opera-tions. The defile is very narrow, the bare red walls riseperpendicularly; and had Brigham Young been able tofulfil his intention of showering down upon our men grapeand shrapnell from guns hung slanting over the edge of theprecipice, sweeping them with similar missiles from eachend of the defile, an army of the size of Johnsons wouldhave been crushed wit
. Salt Lake City, with a sketch of the route of the Union and Central Pacific Railroads, from Omaha to Salt Lake City, and from Ogden to San Francisco /with 12 illustrations from photographs by Savage . angerous locality for warlike opera-tions. The defile is very narrow, the bare red walls riseperpendicularly; and had Brigham Young been able tofulfil his intention of showering down upon our men grapeand shrapnell from guns hung slanting over the edge of theprecipice, sweeping them with similar missiles from eachend of the defile, an army of the size of Johnsons wouldhave been crushed with wonderful ease and celerity. Wecalculate that neither Grant nor Sherman would be likelyto let their men into such a murderous trap. Passing the celebrated Pulpit Rock, we enter, eightmiles below Echo, the Weber Canyon, which almost sur-passes the Echo in its sublimity of character. All alongthe valley flows the Weber or Webber River, exquisitelyclear and cold. It rises near the source of the BearRiver, and after a curiously winding north-westerly career,falls into the Great Salt Lake, a few miles south of itssister-stream, and nearly opposite Fremonts Island. 10 SALT LAKE CITY, AND THE WAY THE PULPIT ROCK. Two miles down the Canyon are the Witches Rocks,■weird and wild-looking, and wearing a fanciful resem-blance to those dreaded and much-abused powers of adark age of ignorance and superstition. Some six miles further, and at the point called theNarrows, may be seen a lone pine tree on the river(«) THE WITCHES ROCKS, IN THE WEBER CANYON. bank. The traveller can hardly fail to notice it, for nokindred trees are near it, above it, below it, or on eitherside ; and this memorial of a remote antiquity was found—the fact, though strange, is true—to be exactly onethousand miles from the Missouri River by the PacificRailroad. It bears aboard, with the inscription, One SALT LAKE CITY, AND THE WAY THITHER. 11 Thousand Mile Tree, telling the traveller how far he hasjour
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