. Salt Lake City, with a sketch of the route of the Central Pacific Railroad, from Omaha to Salt Lake City, and thence to San Francisco /with twelve illustrations from photographs by Savage . of heaven with their meanand commonplace proclamations of greed of trade. Near the end of Echo Canyon, and on the summit ofrocky heights, a thousand feet above the valley, are theremains of the rude fortifications which the Mormonsprepared against the United States troops. Huge massesof rock and heavy stones had been collected by the Mor-mons to hurl down o:i the heads of those whom they chosato rega
. Salt Lake City, with a sketch of the route of the Central Pacific Railroad, from Omaha to Salt Lake City, and thence to San Francisco /with twelve illustrations from photographs by Savage . of heaven with their meanand commonplace proclamations of greed of trade. Near the end of Echo Canyon, and on the summit ofrocky heights, a thousand feet above the valley, are theremains of the rude fortifications which the Mormonsprepared against the United States troops. Huge massesof rock and heavy stones had been collected by the Mor-mons to hurl down o:i the heads of those whom they chosato regard as tyrannical invaders. Passing the celebrated Pulpit Rock, which from itsresemblance to a bear, might moi-e appropriately havebeen called the Grizzly, we enter, eight miles belowEcho, the Weber Canyon, which almost surpasses theEcho in its sublimity of character. All along thevalley flows the Weber or Webber River, exquisitelyclear and cold. It rises near the source of the BearRiver, and after a curiously - winding north-westerlycareer, falls into the Great Salt Lake, a few milessouth of its sister-stream, and nearly opposite FremontsIsland. (41) 10 SALT LAKK CITY, AND THK WAY THE fVLllT ROCK. Two miles down the Canyon are the Witches Rocks,weird and wild-looking, and wealing a fanciful resem-blance to those dreaded and much-abused powers of adark age of ignorance and superstition. Some six miles further, and at the point called the Narrows, may be seen a lone pine tree on the river(41) THE WITCHES ROCKS, IN THE WEBER CANYON. bank. The traveller can hardly fail to notice it, for nokindred trees are near it, above it, below it, or on eitherside ; and this memorial of a remote antiquity was found—the fact, though strange, is true—to be exactly onethousand miles from the Missouri River by the PacificRailroad. It bears aboard, with the inscription, One SALT LAKE CITY, AND THE WAY THITHER. 11 Thousand Mile Tree, telling the traveller how far he hasjourneyed on his
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