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6 May 2018 by Alan

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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.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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27 August 2017 by Alan

Image from page 77 of “Arctic explorations: the second Grinnell expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, ’54, ’55” (1856) – Valley Of Desolation

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Year: 1856 (1850s)
Authors: Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857
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Publisher: Philadelphia, Childs & Peterson [etc., etc.]
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with our anchors planted in a berg. In one of the attempts which I made with my boatto detect some pathway or outlet for the brig, I cameupon a long rocky ledge, with a sloping terrace on itssouthern face, strangely green with sedges and poppies.I had learned to refer these unusual traces of vegeta-tion to the fertilizing action of the refuse which gathersabout the habitations of men. Yet I was startled, as Twalked round its narrow and dreary limits, to find anEsquimaux hut, so perfect in its preservation that afew hours labor would have rendered it habitable.There were bones of the walrus, fox, and seal, scatteredround it in small quantities; a dead dog was foundclose by, with the flesh still on his bones; and, a littlefarther off, a bear-skin garment that retained its fur.In fact, for a deserted homestead, the scene had solittle of the air of desolation about it that it cheeredmy good fellows perceptibly. The scenery beyond, upon the main shore, might 60 E S Q U 1 M A U X 11 U T S.

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ESQUIMAUX HUT, have impressed men whose thoughts were not (Other-wise absorbed. An opening through the cliffs ot traprock disclosed a valley slope and distant rolling hills,—in fine contrast with the black precipices in front,—and a stream that came tumbling through the gorge :we could hear its pastoral music even on board thebrig, when the ice clamor intermitted. The water around was so shoal that at three hun-dred yards from the shore w^e had but twelve-feetsoundings at low tide. Great rocks, well worn androunded, that must have been floated out by the ice atsome former period, rose above the Avater at a halfmiles distance, and the inner drift had fastened itselfabout them in fantastic shapes. The bergs, too, wereaground well out to seaward; and the cape ahead wascompletely packed with the ice which they hemmed PETER FORCE BAT. 61 in. Tied up as we were to our own berg, we were forthe time in safety, though making no progress; but tocast loose and tear out into the pack was to r

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19 November 2015 by Alan

John Gainsford: a great man passes

John Gainsford: a great man passes Gainsford grew up in Lansdowne and went to what was then Lansdowne High School and now is Windsor High, where he played hooker to start with and then scrumhalf and then centre. He was the star of the school, head boy, captain of rugby, excelling in … Read more on …

John Gainsford: a great man passes

Gainsford grew up in Lansdowne and went to what was then Lansdowne High School and now is Windsor High, where he played hooker to start with and then scrumhalf and then centre. He was the star of the school, head boy, captain of rugby, excelling in …

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