. The Pacific tourist : Williams' illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean : containing full descriptions of railroad routes ... A complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific railroads ... . ming, and has apopulation of nearly 1,000 persons. Effortshave been made by Air. Fields and a few 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.
. The Pacific tourist : Williams' illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean : containing full descriptions of railroad routes ... A complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific railroads ... . ming, and has apopulation of nearly 1,000 persons. Effortshave been made by Air. Fields and a few 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. The 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, asid whichcan readily be seen in the bluffs in the vicinityand for quite a distance up Blacks Fork, and 102 TMM Pm€IFI€ 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 riverrises in the Wyoming 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, andwhich are crowned, in many instances, by col-ums, or towers, forcibly
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