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Marvels of the new West - a vivid portrayal of the stupendous marvels in the vast wonderland west of the Missouri River - comprising marvels of nature, marvels of race, marvels of enterprise, marvels (14764484782)
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Title: Marvels of the new West : a vivid portrayal of the stupendous marvels in the vast wonderland west of the Missouri River : comprising marvels of nature, marvels of race, marvels of enterprise, marvels of mining, marvels of stock-raising, and marvels of agriculture, graphically and truthfully described
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Thayer, William Makepeace, 1820-1898
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Publisher: Norwich, Conn. : Henry Bill Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University
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THE DUCHESS. MISCELLANEOUS. Shoshone Falls are on Snake River, in the Territory of Idaho.They are grand to the last degree. Exaggeration is impossible here.No writer can really do them justice. The granite walls, back of theroaring falls, rise like palaces, mosques, or magnificent fortifications.A writer who visited this famous waterfall furnishes a graphic de-scription, from which we extract the following : — It was only a few rods of easy walking, when, piercing a borderof fir, a rest was taken on Point Lookout. Just then the sun broke MARVELS OF NATURE. 11
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112 MARVELS OF THE NEW WEST. forth in renewed radiance, and from cliff to cliff there sprang a bowas perfect as ever was glorious in the heavens, —an arc of beauteouscoloring against a background of glittering, bead-like foam, tumbling incrystal chaos two hundred and twenty feet. The circling halo lost itsbases in the tumult and the mist, but its crescent was unbroken above. Niagara is different, but is not superior. Where that is calm,Shoshone is tempestuous. Where that pours over evenly, Shoshonebursts into a million wild jets, each with a diamonds lustre. Wherethat is environed by commonplace landscape, Shoshone dashes frombetween rocks, stately and time-stained, and nearly a thousand feethigh. From Point Lookout the view is unobstructed, not only of
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