. The Pacific tourist : Williams' illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean : containing full descriptions of railroad routes across the continent, all pleasure resorts and places of most noted scenery in the far West, also of all cities, towns, villages, Forts, springs, lakes, mountains, routes of summer travel, best localities for hunting, fishing, sporting, and enjoyment, with all needful information for the pleasure traveler, miner, settler, or business man : a complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific Railroads and all poin
. The Pacific tourist : Williams' illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean : containing full descriptions of railroad routes across the continent, all pleasure resorts and places of most noted scenery in the far West, also of all cities, towns, villages, Forts, springs, lakes, mountains, routes of summer travel, best localities for hunting, fishing, sporting, and enjoyment, with all needful information for the pleasure traveler, miner, settler, or business man : a complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific Railroads and all points of business or pleasure travel to California, Colorado, Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, Montana, the mines and mining of the territories, the lands of the Pacific Coast, the wonders of the Rocky Mountains, the scenery of the Sierra Nevadas, the Colorado mountains, the big trees, the geysers, the Yosemite, and the Yellowstone . non wall, aquarter of a mile far-ther down, and from thebrink of the precipiceover which the riverplunges. Let us approachand look over. Down,down goes the whirl-ing mass, writhing andbattling with the rocks,against which it dasheswith a noise like the dis-charge of heavy artillery. resisting rock is met, and the water rebounds,broken into myriads of drops, which throwback to us the sunlight resolved into its primi-tive colors. The bottom reached, the columnbreaks into an immense cloud of spray, whosemoisture nourishes the vegetation on the wallsnear the fall. The river, before it pours overthe edge, narrows to about a hundred height of the fall has been variouslygiven. The measurement with a line in 1870,gave 350 feet as the result. Triangulation froma base line on the edge of the canon, by theGeological Survey in 1872, made it 397 feet,and a barometrical measurement in 1873, byCaptain Jones, made it feet. The Upper Falls are about a quarter of a mile Here and there, a. ASCENDING THE GLACIERS OF MT. HAYDEN. 284
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