The Great West: its attractions and resourcesContaining a popular description of the marvellous scenery, physical geography, fossils, and glaciers of this wonderful region; and the recent explorations in the Yellowstone park ..by ..Also, valuable information to travellers and settlers concerning climate, health, mining, husbandry, education, the Indians, Mormonism, the Chinese; with the homestead, pre-emption, land, and mining laws . Artists would call it amountain-gorge shut in by Avails of variegated marble. It looks likelayers of distinct and curious formations. But in one roc
The Great West: its attractions and resourcesContaining a popular description of the marvellous scenery, physical geography, fossils, and glaciers of this wonderful region; and the recent explorations in the Yellowstone park ..by ..Also, valuable information to travellers and settlers concerning climate, health, mining, husbandry, education, the Indians, Mormonism, the Chinese; with the homestead, pre-emption, land, and mining laws . Artists would call it amountain-gorge shut in by Avails of variegated marble. It looks likelayers of distinct and curious formations. But in one rock, a vast massof veined granite, it catches and reflects every shade of light. Mirroredon its surface, the sun waves back in glittering landscapes of quiveringshade. The spray, cast by the dash and splutter of the waters as theyfoam and lunge over rocky and abrupt declivities, rises like a veil ofmist. The sun, glancing from the overhanging crests, mirrors the sceneand catches the various shades and lights as in a prism of wonderful andindescribable beauty. Crowning them like a cross, midway the gorge,rise two columns named Loveland Peaks, twin sentinels of the ruggedscene. On the summit of a mountain ten thousand feet in air, theyshoot up the rugged surface like momentous spires in the midst of deso-late surroundings. Hundreds of feet above the tallest peaks, they standdesolate and grand as Egyptian pyramids—tall columns which catch and. COLORADO. 113 reflect every slanting ray of light. Some day the tourist will make thisColorado scene his Mecca, as the Moslem turns to the shrine of his faith,watching in the days decline the wonderful spectacle of sunshine andshadow, and the weird, rugged sublimity of mountain-gorge, materializinga dream of beauty which far outstrips the achievements of the painterspencil. These scenic beauties will be open to the tourist world whenthe High Line road reaches out from Georgetown over the range, andopens up the profuse and elaborate scenery t
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