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and, 10 thoroughly ENJOY the magnificent
scenery, he secured a seat by the driver on
the outward bound stage. The hour for
starting was o'clock in the morning, bu.
on that especial Friday morning the coach
was half an hour late in starting. It was
not very promising morning, nor one
calculated to soothe the rufied tempers Of
those who had left their snug quarters at
the International to stand waiting in the
damp, cold, raw atmosphere. Such an
atmosphere wants we'll airing and a little
sunshine warmth before it is wholesome
for human beings. At last, however, we
were off ct lively speed, our herses being
both powerful and spirited, and well they
might be, for the first fourteen miles of
the road was for the most part
a heavy grade through mud
sticky as gumbo up to the very hubs. Our
cattle, however, were good. our driver ex-
perienoed and reliable though taciturn
and uncommunicative, and our prairie
schooner" was successfully navigated
over the wild expanse of road which
seemed to have no lateral limits till we
changed horses. Here the character of
the road or trail completely changed. The
mud disappeared and the armament above
also changed, and although the wind blew
keenly the threatening snow cleared from
the air and the sun shone out quite bright
~ for time through the heavy lesden
clouds which were no W hurrying OF to-
ward the eastern horizon.
If were to describe the glorious scenes
of matchless landscapes which opened be-
fore us at every point and surrounded Us
upon every side throughout the whole
seventy-f miles. this letter would be un-
considerably long and perhaps irksome TO
the reader. Let it suffice then 10 say
that the road led across country as varied
in its attractions as can well be imagined.
Sometimes the trail ran By the side Of
rapidly flowing brook which twisted and
turned in sinuosities as strange and fantas-
tic as the vagsries of a whimsical maiden;
its voice, too, much resembled that OF the
maiden, now parling and cooling in snb-
dued love murmurs, now singing out mer-
rily in gladstone cadences, and sometimes
speaking its anger as it were in tragic
tones of eep passion. Then we would fly
away at raciEg speed across an enclosed
valley gently sloping toward where walled
bluffs and rich foliage told US was the
course of our lost companionable brooklet.
Then again we would find ourselves away
up on the sides of the mountains with q
wall of rock on one side and deep abyss
on the other, at the bottom of which we
would hear our mountain born friend in
angry shouts and coaxing
whispers calling to u.s.
And now here we are at the very tip top.
The air is keen aud penetrating, but the
sun shines out strongly and lights up The
surrounding world with his gladstone
smile. And what a wonderous world it
ie.
The mountain on which we are and
where prevailed upon the driver to pause
awhile, shoots off down in rapid strides
and precipitous leaps to a wide-spreadiDg
level plain; and there goes the road by
which we Will have to descend winding
along between noble pine trees to avoid
the steep descent and rocky wall-like alb
rupt declivities, snd then it shoots off
straight as the fight Of bird across the
plain 10 q gorge in the distant mountains
which enclose the plain on al sides like
gigantic wall crested with embattled cas-
Ties. towers, minarets and pyramids, stand
ing up shoulder to shoulder
back into the very clouds.
lIc S1oobS Va enCSO SIOnO axe
clothed in spotless white, to which the
bright rays of the cheering sun impart
scintillsting brillianeY, unspeakably
beautiful. But there, away down below,
is our little friend, the CHEEKY, merry
voiced syren Of the mountains; so little
she now seems in the far away bed which
she has with her amazing consistency hewn
through the rocks of ages, that like an
49, osI
spray fecking her tortuous length, she
flows in hushed silence; murmur now
and again, as soft as the song of the dying
swan, reaches Hs at our giddy height and
making itself heard above the gentle whis-
pers of the air-spirits ia the thick foliage
of the dark frs.
Having surveyed the sublime prospect
for few moments with breathless wonder
and amazed rapture, the coach is again
started and on we dash down
the winding road to the plain,
and across it with swinging
celebrating speed We reach the gorge
through which our stream, born of per-
petual SHOWS, dashes roaring torrent.
The gorge is clothed with heavy growth
of pine which seems to be rooted in the SOL
i'd granite. And what wonders now meet
us on every hand! What vagaries of ma
tare's masonery. Piles upon piles of mann
moth boulders and solid shapely- hewn
granite blocks, arranged and set with con-
summate skill apparently in every unima-
ginable violation of gravity and the COM
mon laws of matter, forming pillars and
arches and monumental columns, meet or
gaze upon every side. Here they stand
firm and erect with the time wrinkles of
centuries and the weather stains of the ages,
imparting that grandeur which fierce CON
fict with heart sorrows and life's tribula-
tons gives to the proud old age of the en-
during. And again these stupendous struc-
lures are shattered and strewn as if the
artillery of the elements had been battling
upon them and the convulsIve
labor throes of the sphere had shaken
them to their foundation. The road
through this gorge was rugged and dan
gerous, but our Jehu handled his horses
we'll ana we passed through without acct
dent. The foregoing it is hoped will be
sufficient to indicate what our road was,
but it should have been mentioned that
miles upon miles of fiume and ditch, and
acres npon acres of boulder and beech and
gravel and sand-''taiiings'' of the miner,
showed to what extent placer mining
had been carried on in this district.
We arrived at Butte City in the even