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Title: Shoshone, and other western wonders
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Roberts, Edwards
Subjects: Mormons Mormon Church
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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they appeal to you. We viewed themfrom every point. If desirous of picturesqueeffects, we selected Lookout Point; if anxiousfor more startling features, we sought the narrowlevel that clings to the cliffs below the GreatFall. It is there that one gains a full conceptionof the size and power of this Western rival ofNiagara. Besides those -I have mentioned, the canonof the Snake has many other attractions. Inthe cliffs at the foot of the Great Falls arecuriously fashioned caves. In one the roar ofthe waters reverberates in sounds like the paddle-wheels of a steamer run at full speed ; in another— an ear-shaped grotto two hundred feet high,and named Dianas Bath-room — cold dropsof water trickle from the ceiling walls, and arecaught by a stone-rimmed basin set in thefloor of the vaulted chamber. The trail to theriver level below the Falls is down a steepembankment nearly one thousand feet high.The descent and the returning climb form noinconsiderable labor for the inexperienced; and o
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SHOSHONE. 171 yet I am sure that none will regret the exertion.At the base of the trail the ground is coveredwith water-soaked timber that has been hurledover the Falls and tossed upon the shore; andin the crevices of the high vertical walls of thegorge are moss-grown cedars, dripping withmoisture. Among the more prominent landmarks aroundthe Falls are Deweys Bluff, one thousand andfifty feet high, Sentinel Rock, Lovers Leap, —that never had a tragedy, — Creightons Bluff,Walgamott Island, and the Natural Bridge. Be-neath the latter, as through a frame, one seesthe silvery front of the Great Fall, and in thedistance the bold outlines of Deweys Bluff. Thewalls of the canon are everywhere cut into gigan-tic basaltic and trachytic columns, whose coloringis red, yellow, brown, and black. The scenery near the Twin Falls is made inter-esting by the geological features. You can tracethe course of the canon for a mile or more, andyour best view of the cataract is from the highembankment at

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