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Image from page 44 of “John Bull & co.; the great colonial branches of the firm: Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa” (1894)

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Title: John Bull & co.; the great colonial branches of the firm: Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: O’Rell, Max, 1848-1903
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Publisher: New York, C. L. Webster & company
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.Then you descend toward the fertile valley of the SaltLake in Utah. The Mormons have been described adnauseam, and there is nothing new to be looked for intheir midst; they are ancient history. By a new law ofthe United States, polygamy is no longer tolerated, and JOHN BULL & CO. 35 if Artemus Ward were now alive, and about to giveone of his delightfully humorous talks there, he couldno longer put on the complimentary ticket given tosome Mormon to whom he wished to show a politeness, Admit bearerand one wife.In Salt LakeCity you arestruck by thecleanliness, thequietness, andthe general airof prosperity ofthe place. TheMormons aremeek-voicedand mild-man-nered, as onewould expect inthe descendantsof an oppressedsect. Attend-ants are politeand altogethera great contrastto the same classo f persons o nthe other side ofthe Rockies. The Mormons continue to believe andcall themselves Saints. This is a harmless mania thathurts nobody. Before eettins; into California there remains but the

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TEMPLE SQUARE, SALT LAKE CTrY. 36 JOHN BULL & CO. State of Nevada to cross, a sandy, arid land, which formsa curious contrast with the fertile Salt Lake valley andthe luxuriant plains of California between which it lies.Some Indians, majestically draped in blankets and withfeathers in their hair, a few cowboys with sombrerosstuck on the back of the head give a touch of the pic-turesque to this scene of desolation, a scene almostgrandiose in its dreariness. After the sandy desert istraversed, the ground begins to rise once more, natureshows signs of life again, and presently you are in theSierras, which to my thinking are still more picturesqueand much grander than the Rockies. The RockyMountains are certainly mountainous and undeniablyrocky, but the landscape has not the majesty of theSierras. The Rocky Mountains are wild and arid ; theSierras are luxuriant with verdure. You are nearingthe home of perpetual spring. All is gay and smiling:the blue sky, the slopes of the mountains c

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Title: Here and there in New England and Canada
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Sweetser, Moses Foster, 1848-1897
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ope of Mount Webster, bandedby the tracks of many avalanches, and adorned by the veil-like falling watersof the Crystal Cascade. Finally, a magnificent prospect opens down thelong and trough-like Saco Valley, closed by the remote blue peaks towardthe Swift River. Then follows a rush through the Gate of the Notch, andsuddenly the scene changes, from the profoundest forest-desolation andmountain-majesty to the sunny beauty of open lawns and laughing waters,pleasure-boats and carriages, and a great hospitable hotel, — the famous oldCrawford House. By maple orchards, belts of pineAnd larches climbing darkly The mountain slopes, and, over all.The great peaks rising starkly. You should have seen that long hill-range• With gaps of brightness riven,— How through each pass and hollow streamedThe purpling lights of heaven,— Rivers of gold-mist flowing down From far celestial fountains,—The great sun flaming through the rifts Beyond the wall of mouiilamsl —John Crccnlen/ ir/ufU^r. 45

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THROUGH THE NOTCH. 46 CHAPTER VII. CRAWFORDS. The Famous Hotel. — Ueeciiers Cascades. — Ammonoosiic Lake.—Mount Willard. — The Ripley Falls and Arethusa Falls.—Mount Willey. — The Willey Tragedy. — The Path up MountWashington. THE Crawford House is one of the central shrines in these great moun-tain-cloisters, and is rich in its picturesque and varied surroundings,and the electrically invigorating air of an altitude of nineteen hundredfeet above the sea. From the long front piazzas you look across thebroad lawn, with sparkling fountains, to the sharply-cut Gate of the Notch,formed of the broken slope of Mount Jackson on one side and MountWillard on the other, with the tremendous mass of Mount Webster full insight beyond, a magnificent and imposing spectacle. There are numerous forest-hidden brooks in this vicinity,— the Crawford,Upper Saco, Ammonoosuc, and others, —where fishermen, following downtheir wapvard courses, amid scenery of the wildest and grandest characte

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Year: 1909 (1900s)
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two p.m., saying he had beennearly to Eldon, in the Bow valley, east of ourcamp. Again in the evening we both set out, I upthe ridge, and Ross towards the muskegs andmeadows below our camp to the north. No signof our animals was discovered. A curious effect i 182 mat>a way back to woods, to find a good ses. Tht nile to camp was torrent with aks and noble her side. Oi was more than diameter. Tb egion, for a mile veritable par larch, and in picas, marmot nes, one of I came upon as I api evenii; ind>f sleet anfull, and li the clouds orm cene seeping The evexgrecns . . . battle with storm and avalanche andOVer the ^^V^^Wund into those forbidding heights^m^^^ghOStly m&mmttgn-dOUd WkitenS theSround ^tf^.»ha|p_ lined shadows of the were thrown in bright moonligh overed tent. Rain in the mornin nth day of consecutive :h is past ent for the u:h de- g mar ency h^ dis- Ross se, >rning, about « lad been of our t out, I up Ross >kegs and our c h. No sign als was di urious effect

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©ur Iborses ^Disappear 183 on our imagination was made by our trying to hearthe bell. Both of us fancied we could hear it, ring-ing constantly, in one direction or another, thoughwe could not agree upon the locality. It was useless to waste more time hunting overthe vast extent of open country that surrounded ourcamp, so I decided to send Ross back to Laggan, andthen by rail to Banff, for more horses, or another manto find our own. Owing to the cold weather I hadno doubt we would be able to cross the streamswhich come out of Desolation and Paradise valleys.In the morning at eight oclock Ross started for Laggan.Left absolutely alone in the wilderness for the first time,I spent the entire morning gathering fire-wood whichthe miners had cut, and making camp comfortable andneat. At night I banked the camp-fire, and in themorning, after eleven hours, it was still burning. August 25th. Fog and snow showers were thecurtain raiser this morning. The continuous per-formance began at ten oclock

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