. The Pacific tourist : Adams & Bishop's illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean ... : a complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific railroads ... . ceedingly curious, and their aver-age height, 500 to 800 feet. At the amphithe-atre, and tlie Steamboat Rock, the lioight isfully 800 feet to the sunnnit. There is a boldprojection in the wall of lock near the Puljnt,called Hanging Rock ; l)ut it is composed of amass of coarse conglomerate, whicli is easilywashed away, and is not very easily noticed. Pulpit Rock overlooks Echo City and t
. The Pacific tourist : Adams & Bishop's illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean ... : a complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific railroads ... . ceedingly curious, and their aver-age height, 500 to 800 feet. At the amphithe-atre, and tlie Steamboat Rock, the lioight isfully 800 feet to the sunnnit. There is a boldprojection in the wall of lock near the Puljnt,called Hanging Rock ; l)ut it is composed of amass of coarse conglomerate, whicli is easilywashed away, and is not very easily noticed. Pulpit Rock overlooks Echo City and the val-ley of the Weber, through which flows a purebeautiful mountain stream. In one of ourillustrations is shown a railroad train passingthrough this valley and descending to the en-ti-ance of Weber Canon just below. This is thesketch of the special excursion train of the NewYork and Eastern Editorial Excursion Partyof 1875, who, at this part, the center of the val-ley, midway between the two canons, were pro-fuse in Iheir exclamations of delight at thescene of beauty. A curious feature of Echo Canon is that itsscenery is entirely on the right or north side,and that the Weber Canon has, also, upon the. MO>UMLNT liOCIv —Et no C VNON. same side, its wildest and most characteiisticscenery. The entrance and departure fromeach canon is distinguished with great abrupt-ness and distinctness. Traveleis who can enjoythe fortunate position of the lowest step on theplatform of each car, can witness all the scenesof Echo and AVeber Canons, to the best advan-tage. The view is particularly fine,—as whenthe train describes the sharp turn, under andaround Pulpit Rock, the view from the last plat-form includes the whole length of the train onthe curve,—and overhead the jutting point ofthe rock, and, farther above, the massive RockMountain, the overlook to the entire valley. Justas the train rounds at Pulpit Rock, passengers ]23
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