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Title: The Pacific coast scenic tour, from southern California to Alaska, the Canadian Pacific railway, Yellowstone Park and the Grand Cañon
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Finck, Henry Theophilus, 1854-1926
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Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ch is so completely shut in by high, frowningmountain walls on every side that the sun touchesthe village only during part of the day, has lost itsimportance since it ceased to be a terminus, and seemsat present to be inhabited chiefly by Indians and half-breeds. The train is invaded by a bevy of half-breedgirls with baskets of splendid apples and pears, whichcould not be beaten for size and flavor in any of ourStates, and indicate a possible use for these mountainregions in the future. And now the train j)lunges intothe midst of the series of terrific gorges which consti-tute the Frazer Canon, and which make this railwayliterally the most gorge-ous in the world. Here wereappalling engineering difficulties to overcome, which noprivate corporation without the most liberal governmentsupport could have undertaken. Yet the builders hadto be thankful even for this wdld and rugged canon dugout by the Frazer River, without which the Cascaderange would have been impassable. The palace cars of
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ACROSS THE CANADIAN PACIFIC. 255 the Canadian Pacific, whicli contain all the best featuresof the Pullman cars, with home improvements, have aspecial observatory, with large windows, at the end ofthe train, whence the cauon should be viewed; but tosee it at its best one must sit on the rear platform, soas to see at the same time both of the wild and precipi-tous canon walls, between which the river rushes alongas if pursued by demons. At every curve you thinkthe gorge must come to an end, but it only grows morestupendous, and the river, lashed into foam and fury,dashes blindly against the rocks which try to arrest itscourse. These rocks, ten to thirty feet wide and some-times twice as long, form many pretty little stone islandsin the middle of the torrent, and are a characteristicfeature of the caiion scenery. Numerous tunnels, resem-bling those on the Columbia River, are built througharches seemingly projecting over the river. The trainplunges into them recklessly, but always comes o

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