Beyond the West: containing an account of two years' travel in the other half of our great continent far beyond the old West, on the plains, in the Rocky mountains, and picturesque parks of Colorado. Also, characteristic features of New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho ... Oregon, Utah, Nevada, and ... California, the end of the West ... the great continental railroad, together with the ... most wonderful natural scenery in the world .../ by George W. Pine.

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hundred and fifty feet into the foaming caldron un
der quick moving clouds of spray. The fall itself
takes the appearance of one unbroken sheet of white
satin, ititerspt rs d with myriads of shining drops;
a fall of snow set full of jewels. The real depth of
the chasm belittles all human efforts, from which
rises such pearly mnist, hiding from mortal eyes the
secrets of its boiling heart. This fall is seldom
equaled. Not all hight, like Yosem'ite, nor all breadth
and power like Niagara and the Great Falls of the
Missouri, but, to some extent, combines the three.
It has excavated for itself a channel deep down
in the primary rook, very much like Trenton
Falls, of which I was somewhat reminded. Could
these several falls be put together and made one,
with an immense caldron for a body of water to fall
into, as when the creek is high the resemblance
would be good by changing the slate to granite.
Trees of heavy foliage hang over the deep-worn
chasm, some small ones on the sides of the precipice, driving their fibrous toes into every little
crevice, and almost into the very rock, to obtain a
scanty subsistence.
Perhaps the old Indian Chief Shoshonee, after
whom the falls were named, might, if he were livitig, give its earlier life, while he was taking vapor
baths and sm(-okiI)g his pipe by its magic-totled mut
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