Discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century (1905)
Routledge, Robert · London : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 147
tains. Echo Canyon is a ravine 7 miles long, about half a mile broad, flankedby precipitous cliffs, from 300 to 800 ft. high, and presenting a successionof wild and grand scenery. In Weber Canyon the river foams and rushesalcng between the mountains, which rise in massive grandeur on eitherside,… … Fig. 53.—American Canyon. Where the road could not be carried round or over the spurs of the moun-tains it passes through tunnels, often cut through solid stone. A few milesfarther the line reaches the city of Ogden, in the state of Utah, the territoryof the Mormons. This territory contains upwards…
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