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Title: Announcement of Prof. S. J. Sedgwick's illustrated course of lectures and catalogue of stereoscopic views of scenery in all parts of the Rocky and Sierra Nevada mountains : between Omaha and San Francisco
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Sedgwick, S. J. (Stephen James) Union Pacific Railroad Company. Stereoscopic views across the Continent West from Omaha
Subjects: Stereoscopic views
Publisher: Newtown, Queens County, N.Y. : S.J. Sedgwick
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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t is aoaong the most beautiful. It is about20 feet in diameter. Lower Yellowstone Falls, 370 feet in height. On either side thewalls of the canyon are from 1,400 to 2,000 feet in height. Thecoloring, so beautiful and bountifully lavished here, can hardly everbe more than faintly imitated by the hand of art. Mount Hood is near the northern boundary of Oregon, and is13,000 feet high. The summit is crescent-shaped, half a mile inlength, and from 8 feet to 50 feet in width. The north front is aprecipice of naked columnar rock falling perpendicularly down a mileat a single leap. Smoke still issues from its summit. It can be seenfrom many points and at great distances. 1856, Across the Continent - - - - - in 90 days1876, Across the Continent ----- in 84 hours1879, Across the Continent, by Prof. Sedgwicks Illumin-ated Lectures - in 7J hours and Learn More, as the Rev. Dr. Ormiston said, than by makingthe actual journey. This building is beautifully finished in the different woods peculiar to
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