The Cedar County advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Iowa) 1853-1856, 1854-04-15

had. Springs We're OCCASIONALLY 10 be
met with, which bubbled up clear as crys-
tai, ran for little distance aud disap-
pearel again ia the sands. he Mona.
va river traverses this desert ot the Colo
| RADIO. 1t heads Oh the eastern slope oil
the Sierra Nevada. a little south vi the
Calon Pass, runs nearly due north for
distance OF ti1ty miles, then circles to the
| east, turns to the south, and continues It's
course nearly due east 1t IS supposed
to empty into the Colorado, although It's
iilctoa vita that river cannot be seen
Ii certainly does not enter above ground
as Capt. Walker has travelled up tn, riglt
bank Of the Colorado and met with no
stream coming into it iron the west. GA
his way across the desert he travelled
down the Mohaye for two hundrel miles,
Its banks are very low. and in the rainy
season 1t foods It's bottom. Ii sometimes
sinks into the sands, runs un Ter ground
for ten or fifteen or twenty mics, ami
then oozes up aud continues its course.
The banks are OF sand, very few rocky
lodges are to be found upoa 1t. In the
dry season II Is u very small stream, not
d more than fifteen or twenty yards vide
wnere it first enters the plaih,aad through
out its whole length is very shallow.
A wide valley extends OIL this side o.
the Colorado from is mouth about !3O
miles up. Capt Walker thln>s the Mo-
nave must empty iuto the Colorado near
the head Of tins valley. Fro ii Walker :
Pass to the Colorado, ne says a railroad
could be built without foot of grading
He struck the Colorado a h.!le south Q
the mouth OF the RIO Vlryen, and travel
ed up the river untll he came to the Vr
gen. Tnis last stream heads IA the >o'
Watch mountains, runs southerly .onrs'
and empties into the Colorado just be
low the Big C,noi. Its mouth Is a wild
bed, with very little water-in tact,
shows much more water oae hundre
and fifty miles up stream; this Is own
TO the fac, that 1t frequently sinks an
runs into the sand. Sewer river dram
the northern slope Of the S.u "atc
mountains, and runs north The Captain
in one of his tramps, passed over iro'
the head-wa,ers oi the Sewer TO the W
gen,-.he says the country between the
Is more cut up than any he ever IN
l, with on this continent: to use his o"
expression, 1t is torn all to pieces WI
caaoaS!
Oa tie upper Vlrgen are two very r
markable laiis. Oae Of th"ln, abou. =
miles fro its mouth, Is the most stupe
dous cataract IN the world; II iaus i'i
!, al.nos, uubroten sheet tu.l oae tho
sad feet. Tae river some distance
- bove, traverses pretty .llnberei vale
aud then ruas through clos canoa'
Here the currea, become, RAPID, and
's' mountains seen TO run directly across
river 4, the fall the stream is mario
,Aa' ,1 ed 10 thirty or forty yards, while the CT
on rises On either side IN almost perp'
i11' - dicular cliffs to height OF two hind
~ ~, feet. Tne pen, up stream rushes On
so" tn. brink OF the preciP'ce, leaps ov
VIZ and falls with scarce a break INTO the '
pen abyss beneath. Capt. Walker aescrl
ey ,ae s,ga, as grand beyond description
About thirty miles above, there IS anc
'nis er m,ynficen, fall Here the II
a' y plunges over the cliff, falls distance
many two !. r three hundred feet, and breaks
sra', Wv to myriad fragments upon project
'o,t .,a Ie1ge beneath. Although the fall
oi'' not So grea, as in the other II is more
sour :. ,ufesaue, from the number Of small c;
~'p' racts into which it is divided 10y
w rocks.
"e The waters Of the Virgen are bea
se "a fully clear. For SKY or elyhty miles
; a low the Big Falls, they run tarodga
up ty canons Soon alter they have emer
ahS
pa'' grea, measure BY the sand, and bee
LII IT. mach smaller stream. The col
~ about the Upper V,rg.n Is irlg AtIully
- - polsve. i, IS spll, a. INTO rocky rs
49, 49, ~ and deep ravines. lne Captain ,fav
lse y for a whole day down the bed OF 5
o'ii'' canon. H. turned off into lateral
nv uoa, which became 50 narrow tina
1.p'' could no, get back again. For tw'
tarce miles tie rocks actually closed
efable h,s head ), that h. could not see the
Oh tue |, was like trayersiug an Immense
Z des. tural tunnel two hundred teet hlgl
eoail wa. ldou5ledly the dry bed OF St
iese't which elnrtled during tue r.lny seaso
re ana TO the N.r.,n, as he saw df,,t logs
ca S'us sky teet nigl III one pait ol tue u
70 tne WAT u grand sIgit II would that TO
NO be as il rushed down the subiefra
n, al. nd AID almost filled its rosky co.
ne lev rbat wn,l. section OF coaatry has
Buttes - ,o,oer times up,orn By eatthqu
pine la every pot,l N the effect d soicat
rNei as t.oa laay be s,en II is but little 4
po'lte no waite mAu excep, Capt w
OF the ever having ,raversed II, and nt
Iorth o ro,li ,nlu ]. him 10 attempt IL az ,.n
IS bro auot .er article we shall give stlil Il
Sc II Ia account ol the wonders Of this co,
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