Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1871-11-22

20 see the sights and experience the sensations
incident upon q ride through our first canon.
We are still pretty well up in the world, topping
Mount Washington by six hundred feet but the
incline Of the train which is evident oven to sight
and its swift onward darling, show us That we nrc
going down HILL Tho name Of the station tells
us where we are. in the midst VI the Wah-atch
Range Of the Rocky Mountains, range Of con-
tinuous peaks, most Of them So prominent in
height MS % be snow.cad mJst an the yeararound
/ Tonight, as we glide out Of Ogden on the Cen
/ teal Pacific road along the shore Of Salt Lake,
we -hnll see the highest of the peaks white
against the purple evening sky skirting tho
further shore of the great Lake Our first canon
is Echo Canon and we came into it Of sudden
through the largest tunnel upon the road, cut for
eight hundred feet through hard red clay and red
sandstone.
but some of YOU not wishing GO turn to your
/ Webster or Worcester, mny be asking me "What
/ is canon ?' lido not know what either of the
above mentioned worthie. say it is nor do cnre
20 know. since hive seen the real artclcof which
/ 10 is the name, and the real article isa more proc
nounced gulf or gulch In the Ncrmoutycuacuur
/ / think tlnt upon the Pacific slope every valley
especially every narrow valley with sides more or
less high and PERCEPTIONS. would be called canon
/ A. We come out OF the tunnel and rush on TO the
descent into Echo Canon the sensation Is impo-si-
bic OF description. Looking ahead, which, in
going through canon. is an eosy thing to do,
the road takes so many and such oburpt curves
it certainly seems as 10 the trim was about to
bring up against the solid precipicc The track
ahead seems 10 end in rock Bat no just MS
the place where the eye said the track ended is
reached, it curves sharply about projection Of
the canons side, and the train bears us safely
past the oycrhanging rock. while we gnzc with
hatcd breath and feelings Of proloundcst awe
upon the ellis 70 the right of as, upon the cliffs
to the lett of us, upon the ci- 20 the front of u.s.
I (weare facing the way already gone oycr) which,
bare, bald and ,crUted hy the wind, the frost,
the snow, the rain of numherle.> centuries, lift
Themselves two, three, five thousand feet into the
heavens Wonderful, wonderful wonderful,
is the expression upon every lip. Look up and
see how intensely blue the sky looks arching thi-
narrow chasm how It's arch seems to be pillared
upon the sides OF the canon all, those rock rib.
bed buttresses, so solidy set with thick strata so
compactly laid massiycy heaped one upon the
other seem to be perfect realization Of our
ideal OF the l0undntion piers of the very dome of
Heaven.
Echo Canon i. but ii preparati,n c,r tl,e Grand.
er one inst bcv,nd IL Weber Cam, Tina ,yl1
ness the ,ubli,nitv the awr,l grandeur or r.,,
ore ro.cch,eI h,or1,p far tbo s,to or Ella. ,.,
phnsis the worl ,iyes the senton,, les tram.
fer from the realm or bc,rin, f., tl,t ,r,,.
iopA with tenc,d incre,so or r,,rer in ,y.t.-
In Weber q river ,r c,nsler,t 4, l,,o. ..r ,,...
comes in q, adl by its dash and ro,r ,,,5 ,,,, b.,
complement To the scene No,y ocr,s- i, ,..,,
between il and the cliff on Il road bed half dino
froin the rock of the precipi., bolr stolen from
the bed of the river. PUSHES our train. hearing
us past wonder upop wonder bewildored almost
stunned in mind Inv the rush ,,non ms ,,t ofe,,l,
fresh bend in the canon of new view. ever mare
strange and startln, oro,yin,, M Inst almost
sick in spirit irving To inerpret inf, tl,,rt tho
emotions that the grandeur. the snhlip,ity th.
a,relllpes, of our surroun,lin,s h,.,et ,yitri, .
souls.
sh,u1 ,i,.b, Mann, coma ., ,t..,,...
,,,ro s,,e,iol i,terest9 ,vou a,.,
Echo canon ve rop ne r,,l nor.,oS na,.
a., y..;,, ~ ,,,.. ..,r.. 10,
"Pulpit Rock" is riyen. Ii mot any G,ncisd re-
semblance to u pulpit that has given il il. name
hut because it has reccntly been used a. a pplpit
About the base Of ITS foundation stones. and be-
tween them and the opposite cliff. Il. an acre or
two of open space One july sunday twenty
four years ago, an audience of about three hum
dred men gathered in that open space, and from
that rock Brigham Young preached To them
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