. Scenery of the Pacific railways, and Colorado . rching cliffs,and walls of seemingly loose rocklying at the extremest possible an-gle, their perpendicularity brokenonly by thg detritus scattered abouttheir feet. It might be expectedthat, lying so far down in theearth, the rocks would be moist-ened by springs and wrapped inverdant mosses, but in reality theyare as angular as crystals, and inmost instances as parched as sand. The almost complete absenceof fresh verdure is very trying tothe newly-arrived visitor in Colo-rado. Occasionally the most beau-tiful tints that ever came from thesun are
. Scenery of the Pacific railways, and Colorado . rching cliffs,and walls of seemingly loose rocklying at the extremest possible an-gle, their perpendicularity brokenonly by thg detritus scattered abouttheir feet. It might be expectedthat, lying so far down in theearth, the rocks would be moist-ened by springs and wrapped inverdant mosses, but in reality theyare as angular as crystals, and inmost instances as parched as sand. The almost complete absenceof fresh verdure is very trying tothe newly-arrived visitor in Colo-rado. Occasionally the most beau-tiful tints that ever came from thesun are seen in sharply-defined rib-bons running through the basalt and the sandstones, but the eye wearies of the pallid gray and fadedyellow that are the characterizing colors. The marvelously lucid and thirsty Western air has a harshinfluence upon everything. Taking the Denver & Rio Grande Railway southward from Denver, the tourist passes severalsmall stations, each of which is over 5,000 feet above the sea-level, one being over 7,000 feet above. Major Domo, Glen Eyrie, Colorado. 24 THE PACIFIC RAILWAYS. the sea-level. Sixty-seven miles from Denver he alights at Monument, the station of MonumentPark, which is celebrated for the singular erosions of its sandstones. There are many parts of theRocky Mountain country, from tne Yellowstone in the far north to Tierra Amarilla in New Mexico,which strike us as being the creation and abode of some fanciful race of goblins, who have twistedeverything, from a shaft of rock to an old pine-tree, into a whimsical and incredulous eroded sandstones impress us as the result of a disordered dream—the preposterous handiworkof a crack-brained mason, with a remembrance of Calibans island lingering in his head. Those in Monument Park are ranged in two rows lengthwise through an elliptical basin. They
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