The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-08-20

We saw SO much of the foot hills
and the mountains in the distance
that began to fear this part of our
panorama would fall short of our an
ticipations; but by the time we passed
Weber and Echo canons I was con-
WINGED the half is not told. The Rocky
Mountainsi How aptly named! Brock
ribbed and ancient as the sum-" Who
can find language to describe themp
Such diversity in color, form and
proportions, varying in size from the
tiny pebble to the great face of the
cliff towering heavenward. In one
place we see a heap of small stones,
that look like some huge cart had
dumped hundred tons of birchbats,
and, as it to make amends for such q
piece of inSignificance, just beside are
immense rocks heaped upso high and
thrown together so carelessly that we
| gaze upward with bated breath and
think of the destruction that might
follow should the rocks topple over
upon us so many feet below. How
little, puny, shOrt-lived man appears
beside those vast mOss-grown cliffs.
and yet how gOd-like, for even the
mountains are subject to his will!
We were looking for Castle rock,
thought to resemble a ruined castle,
but saw so many we could not tell
which one we sought. There are cas-
ties with walls, buttresses. turrets and
foundation stones. We look for port
cullies, mOat and bridge No need of
bridge. Human skill could never fill
that ancient canon with water; no
armed band could scale that precipice
in the face of an enemy. BY the side
OF this the feudal castle is "a pigmy.
In appearance we have fortresses with
parapets and towers. no two pillars OF
abutments alike, but all made upon a
plan it would seem, though not Of hui
man architecture. Here q broken
column, there crumbling wall to
show the lapse Of time. all filled in
and dOmed over by the debris of ages,
with roofing in verdure of various
shades and sometimes crowned by a
clump of bushes or a solitary tree. II
we saw the pass where the MOrmons
heaped the rocks to roll down upon the
/ U. s. soldiers, we could not distinguish
1t from natures Notifications. "Pul.
pit Rock was easily known. Devils
Gate is where a mountain stream
comes rushing down the chasm be,
tween two overhanging sleeps, and the
pool below, where the water goes
dashing, whirling and foaming over
| its rocky bed, looks so much like it was
boiling. No wonder they call il
Witch's Cauldron." There is a path.
4 way down the mountain side, some &c
| feet wide, fenced in by two parallel
rows of stone slabs, standing up &c
or 80 feet high, perpendicular to the
earth, and forming acute angles with
the mountain side. This is called
"The DEVILS Sllde." I fancy none but
his Satanic majesty would enjoy slid.
/ ing down hill there. There are small
er slides" Whether Satan used them
to practice upon before trying the
great slide, or has them for the use OF
his children, / did not learn. OF Salt
Lake we saw but glimmering by the
light of the moon. In Utah are very
fine landscapes, but the Sierra Nevadas
have the most pleasing picturesque
scenery, with its tall pines, evergreen
shrubs and trailing plants. My sheet
is full and / must leave our neighbors
| the Sierras, for the present time.
/ This letter should have followed one
written last fall.
Mrs. JOHN SAUBER.
Prattville, Plumas Co.. Cal.