. The Pacific tourist . lationof about 500 souls. Efforts have been made byMr. Fields and a few others to reclaim the soil, morning last year; here is Solomons templepetrified, said she, as she gave him anothershake. The old gentleman rubbed his eyes, gaveanother yawn, and finally looked out, to see whatexcites the curiosity of every traveler, as hearrives at this place. Sure enough : it seems asthough some great temple once stood here, orseveral of them, and in the wrecks of time, lefttheir gigantic pillars standing, as a reminder oftheir former greatness. Titr Green Hirer.—The peculiar color
. The Pacific tourist . lationof about 500 souls. Efforts have been made byMr. Fields and a few others to reclaim the soil, morning last year; here is Solomons templepetrified, said she, as she gave him anothershake. The old gentleman rubbed his eyes, gaveanother yawn, and finally looked out, to see whatexcites the curiosity of every traveler, as hearrives at this place. Sure enough : it seems asthough some great temple once stood here, orseveral of them, and in the wrecks of time, lefttheir gigantic pillars standing, as a reminder oftheir former greatness. Titr Green Hirer.—The peculiar color ofthis river is not owing to the fact of any discolora-tion of the water : that, when the banks of thestream are not filled by freshets of itself or someof its tributaries, is very pure and sweet, and ofthe usual color of clear water, but is owing tothe green shale through which it runs. Mid whichcan readily be seen in the bluffs in the vicinityand for quite a distance iip Blacks Fork, and 102 wmm ^maiFm w&w^ PETRIFIED FISH CUT, GREEN RIVER. which is supposed to contain arsenic or chlorideof copper, which becomes detached by drainageand fastens itself to the pebble stones and bot-tom of the stream, causing the water, as youlook into it, to bear the same color. This riverIises in the AVyoming and Wind River Mount-ains, is fed by numerous tributaries, and flowsin a general southerly direction, until it uniteswith the Colorado River. The scenery along itsbanks, most always rugged, in some places issublime. Where it is crossed by the railroad, itsvalley is narrow, enclosed on either side by highbluffs, which have been washed into numerousfanciful shapes by the storms of time, and whichare crowned, in many instances, by columns, ortowers, forcibly reminding one of the towers,battlements and castles, spoken of in the oldfeudal times. Its tributaries, nearly all havenarrow fertile valleys, which are being occupiedby stockmen, and which afford both hay andshelter for stock. Sou
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