A gazetteer of the United States of America .. . summerheats are intense, and tiie clunate sickly. Nearer the more fertile districts on the west, thetemperature is equable, with less difference between the extremes of heat and cold than isusually the case on the Atlantic coast. The elevated lands, to a certain height, are consid-ered very healthy ; but travellers upon Uie mountain summits have frequently been attackedby fatal fevers and other alarming maladies. In the north, the winters are sufficiently mod-erate to admit of liydraulic operations throughout most of the season. The only religio
A gazetteer of the United States of America .. . summerheats are intense, and tiie clunate sickly. Nearer the more fertile districts on the west, thetemperature is equable, with less difference between the extremes of heat and cold than isusually the case on the Atlantic coast. The elevated lands, to a certain height, are consid-ered very healthy ; but travellers upon Uie mountain summits have frequently been attackedby fatal fevers and other alarming maladies. In the north, the winters are sufficiently mod-erate to admit of liydraulic operations throughout most of the season. The only religious organization, if it can be so called, which is now maintained in the terri-tory, is that of the Mormons, or Latter Day Saints. Besides their establishment at SaltLake, they have formed a colony in Iron county, about 250 miles south, among the high landsnear the boundary of New Mexico; a position, around which the counti-y is well wooded andwatered, abounding in iron ore, and promising plenty of coal. See Salt Lake City, Appen-dix, No. 2. Win. 4^-
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