. Scenery of the Pacific railways, and Colorado . SLIDE, WEBER CANON 50 WITCHES ROCKS, WEBER CANON 51 DEVILS GATE, WEBER CANON 52 WEBER CANON ... 53 OGDEN RIVER ............ 54 OGDEN, AND WAHSATCH RANGE 55 BLACK ROCK, GREAT SALT LAKE 56 CLIFFS, GREEN RIVER 57 OLD MILL, SALT LAKE CITY ......... 58 SALT LAKE CITY 59 BEAR RIVER, UTAH 61 GREAT SALT LAKE, FROM PROMONTORY RIDGE ..... 62INDIAN CAMP IN THE GREAT AMERICAN DESERT . . .62 HUMBOLDT WELLS, AND RUBY MOUNTAINS 63 DEVILS PEAK, HUMBOLDT PALISADES ....... 64 LAKE TAHOE 66 DONNER LAKE, FROM THE SNOW-SHEDS 68 DONNER PEAK ........... 69 LAKE ANGEL
. Scenery of the Pacific railways, and Colorado . SLIDE, WEBER CANON 50 WITCHES ROCKS, WEBER CANON 51 DEVILS GATE, WEBER CANON 52 WEBER CANON ... 53 OGDEN RIVER ............ 54 OGDEN, AND WAHSATCH RANGE 55 BLACK ROCK, GREAT SALT LAKE 56 CLIFFS, GREEN RIVER 57 OLD MILL, SALT LAKE CITY ......... 58 SALT LAKE CITY 59 BEAR RIVER, UTAH 61 GREAT SALT LAKE, FROM PROMONTORY RIDGE ..... 62INDIAN CAMP IN THE GREAT AMERICAN DESERT . . .62 HUMBOLDT WELLS, AND RUBY MOUNTAINS 63 DEVILS PEAK, HUMBOLDT PALISADES ....... 64 LAKE TAHOE 66 DONNER LAKE, FROM THE SNOW-SHEDS 68 DONNER PEAK ........... 69 LAKE ANGELINE 70 EMIGRANTS CROSSING THE SIERRAS 71 CEDAR CREEK, BLUE CA530N 72 LOWER CASCADE, YUBA RIVER 73 GIANTS GAP, AMERICAN CANON 74 GREAT AMERICAN CANON 75 CAPE HORN 76 HYDRAULIC MINING .......... 77 CENTRAL WHARF, SACRAMENTO 78 CHINESE QUARTERS, SACRAMENTO 79 THE CLIFFS, SAN FRANCISCO BAY 80 CENTRAL PACIFIC WHARF . 81 LAKE MERRITT, OAKLAND ^82 SAN FRANCISCO, FROM GOAT ISLAND ....>... 83 CHINESE QUARTER, SAN FRANCISCO 84 THE PACIFIC RAILWAYS. The Union Pacific Depot at Omaha. AFTER having traveled many thousand miles in the far West and Southwest with the unusualopportunity for careful observation afforded by the Wheeler Exploring Expedition, the writeris prepared to say that the scenery of the Pacific Railways embraces nearly all the memorable andcurious phases of the whole Western country. The sage-plains of Colorado and New Mexico are THE PACIFIC RAILWAYS. repeated wearisomely between Omaha and Cheyenne, and in the great Humboldt Desert; themiraculous mesas, or table-lands, of the Black Hills and the Yellowstone, with their broadly-definedstrata of crude color, have their counterparts on the borders of Green River ; the fantastic erosionsof sandstones that have made Monument Park famous crop out on the line so frequently, that theycease to excite any wonder ; and the grandeur of the abrupt cafions that cleave the heart of the mainRocky range may be judged from the sheer walls
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