. Over the range to the Golden Gate, a complete tourist's guide to Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, California, Oregon, Puget Sound, and the great Northwest . isshaken and the rock piecesare rearranged. The effectis startling. We have leftEgypt, with her shades ofgray and her frowning,massive, and gigantic are in a region of glow-ing colors, where the ver-milion, the maroon, thegreen, and the yellowabound and mingle andcontrast. What strangecountry was the prototypeof this? Ah! yonder issomething characteristic—aterraced pyramid bandedwith brilliant and variedcolors—the teocoli of
. Over the range to the Golden Gate, a complete tourist's guide to Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, California, Oregon, Puget Sound, and the great Northwest . isshaken and the rock piecesare rearranged. The effectis startling. We have leftEgypt, with her shades ofgray and her frowning,massive, and gigantic are in a region of glow-ing colors, where the ver-milion, the maroon, thegreen, and the yellowabound and mingle andcontrast. What strangecountry was the prototypeof this? Ah! yonder issomething characteristic—aterraced pyramid bandedwith brilliant and variedcolors—the teocoli of theAztecs. Wliirling around a head-land of glomng red rock,which it seems ought to becalled Flamingo Point,we are in a region of ruddycolor and of graceful , from whose sum-mits the muezzins callmight readily be imaginedfalling upon the ears of thedwellers in tins Orient inthe West, spires moregraceful than that of Bruges,more lofty than that ofTrinity, towers more mar-velous than Pisas leaningwonder, columns more curi-ous than that of Yendome,splintered and airy pinna-cles, infinite in variety, in-numerable! inimitable! in-describable!. EXPLORING THE WALLS. TO THE GOLDEN GATE. 49 In a moment darkness and the increased rumble of wheels; then light andanother marvelous view. We have passed tunnel No. i, the portcullis; darknessagain for a moment, then the blue sky above us. We have entered through thepostern gate; darkness for the third time—absolute, unmitigated blackness of dark-ness; this must be the deepest dungeon neath the castle moat. But soon againwe see the blessed light, and there before us lies Glenwood Springs!—ColoradosGreatest Resort. Glenwood Springs is the pleasure and Glenwood Springs. Health and PleasureResort. Wonderful HotSprings. Distance from Denver,360 miles. Elevation, 5,758 feet. Population, 3,000. health resort of Colorado, as well as a flourishingand growing town. It is the county-seat of Gar-field County. The picturesque scenery
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