The pioneers of '49 A history of the excursion of the Society of California pioneers of New England . waybecomes a mere fissure throughthe heights. The river, sombre and swift,breaks the awful stillness with itsroar. Soon the cleft becomes stillmore narrow, the treeless cliffshigher, the river closer confined,and where a long iron bridge hansssuspended from tlie smooth walls,the grandest portion of tlie canonis reached. Man becomes dwarfedand dumb in the sublime scene,and Nature exhibits the power shepossesses. The crags menacingly rear their heads above the daring intruders, and the placeis l
The pioneers of '49 A history of the excursion of the Society of California pioneers of New England . waybecomes a mere fissure throughthe heights. The river, sombre and swift,breaks the awful stillness with itsroar. Soon the cleft becomes stillmore narrow, the treeless cliffshigher, the river closer confined,and where a long iron bridge hansssuspended from tlie smooth walls,the grandest portion of tlie canonis reached. Man becomes dwarfedand dumb in the sublime scene,and Nature exhibits the power shepossesses. The crags menacingly rear their heads above the daring intruders, and the placeis like the entrance to some infernal region. Far above the road the sky forms a deep blue arch of light; but in the Gorge hang dark andsombre shades which the suns rays have never penetrated. The place is a measureless gulfof air with solid walls on either side. Here the granite cliffs are a thousand feet high, smoothand unbroken by tree or slirub and tiiere a pinnacle soars skyward for thrice that flowers grow, and the birds care not to penetrate the solitudes. Such magnificent scenery. r THE ROYAL GORGE. 236 piojYEErs of 49. as that of the Black Canon, and that of the Royal Gorge, I have never seen elsewhere. ButMarshall Pass finds two formidable rivals, so far as its slopes are concerned, in the route from
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