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Title: The Pacific tourist
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Williams, Henry T Shearer, Frederick E
Subjects: Union Pacific Railroad Company Central Pacific Railroad Company Railroad travel Railroad travel Railroad travel
Publisher: New York : H.T. Williams
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SENTINEL ROCK, ECHO CANON. called The Great Republic. They are reallycurious formations, and wonderful to those wholook upon them for the first time. SentinelRock comes next. It is within a cove andseems withdrawn from the front, as though shun-ning the gaze of the passing world, yet in a posi-tion to observe every thing that goes by. If thetrain would only stop and give you more time—but this cannot be done, and your only recourse
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KOCK scene:s near echo city. l.—Witolies Rocks. 2.—Battlement Rocks. 3.—Egyptian Tombs. 4.—Witches Bottles. 5.—Needle Rocks, near Wahaatcli. is to pause at Echo and let it pass, while youwait for the one following. This will give youample opportunity to see the natural wonderscongregated in this vicinity. We have almostreached the mouth of Echo Creek, and theWeber River comes in from the left, opposite Bromlejis Cathedral, in front of which stands Pulpit Rock, on the most extended point asyou turn the elbow in the road. This Cathe-dral is nam-Bcl in honor of J. E. Bromley, Esq.,who has lived atEcho since 1858,and who camehere as a divi-sion s u p e r i n-tendent of BenHolladaysOverland Stageand ExpressLine. It extendssome distance—a mile or more— around thebend in themountain, andhas numeroustowers andspires, turretsand domes, oneither side.Pulpit Rockis so called fromits resemblanceto an old-fash-ioned pulpit,and rises inplain view asyou go roundthe curve intoWeber Vall

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