. 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 . ce-waters, a rare fer-tility is developed in the ravines opening uponthe shore of the canon. A luxuriance of fernsand mosses, an almost tropical wealth of greenleaves and velvety carpeting line the are no rocks at the base of the fall: Thesheet of foam plunges almost vertically into adark, beryl-green, lake-like expanse of the volumes of foam roll up from the cata-ract-base, and, whirling about in the eddyingwinds, rise often a thousand feet into the the wind blows down the canon, a graymist obscures the river for half a mile; andwhen, as is usually the case in the afternoon, thebreezes blow eastward, the foam-cloud curls overthe brink of the fall, and hangs like a veil overthe upper river. The incessant roar, reinforcedby a thousand echoes, fills the canon. From outthis monotone, from time to time, rise strange,wild sounds, and now and then may be heard aslow, measured beat, not unlike the recurring fallof breakers. From the white front of the cata-. ract the eye constantly wanders up to the black,frowning parapet o
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