. The Pacific tourist . so wepass rapidly gap beginsto open in thewest, and wesoon emergefrom one of thegrandest scenesin nature, intothe lovely val-ley below, Ie-claimed by thehands of menfrom the barrenwaste of a des-ert, and madeto bud andblossom as therose. We havenow passed theWa hs atchRange of mount-ains, thoughtheir toweringpeaks are on theright, and re-cede from viewon the left, aswe leave theirbase and get devils slide. out into the plain. We are now in the Great SaltLake Basin, or Valley; and, though the lake itselfis not in sight, the mountains on its islands mount
. The Pacific tourist . so wepass rapidly gap beginsto open in thewest, and wesoon emergefrom one of thegrandest scenesin nature, intothe lovely val-ley below, Ie-claimed by thehands of menfrom the barrenwaste of a des-ert, and madeto bud andblossom as therose. We havenow passed theWa hs atchRange of mount-ains, thoughtheir toweringpeaks are on theright, and re-cede from viewon the left, aswe leave theirbase and get devils slide. out into the plain. We are now in the Great SaltLake Basin, or Valley; and, though the lake itselfis not in sight, the mountains on its islands mountains, back of Ogden, are almostalways crowned with snow, and frequently havetheir summits enveloped in They arestorm-breeders—every one, and the old StormKing sometimes holds high carnival among them,when From peak to peak, the rattling crags among,Leaps the live thunder. The winds and storms of winter occasionallyfill the craggy gap through which we have passedwith snow, to such an extent that it slides like. an avalanche down over the track, and in theriver below, where the rushing waters give it acordial greeting, and wheie it soon melts in theirembrace. Uintah,—1, miles from Omaha ; eleva-tion, 4,560 feet. This was formerly the stagestation for Salt Lake City, but the completion ofthe Utah Central Railroad from Ogden, tookaway its glory. While it was the stage terminusit was a lively place, though it never possessedindications of being a town of any great the town, the valley opens out likea panorama, and neat little houses with farms and gardens at-tached, greet theeyes of the trav-eler in a won-derful changefrom the scenesthrough whichhe has justpassed. Look-ing ofE to theleft you will no-tice the firstbench of landacross the river,with a higherbench or terracein the this firstbench, the Mor-risite massacretook place in1862, an accountof which weshall give in an-other Uintah,the road pursuesits way in ageneral nor
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