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Title: The Pacific tourist : Adams & Bishop's illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean : containing full descriptions of railroad routes across the continent, all pleasure resorts and places of most noted scenery in the Far West, also of all cities, towns, villages, U.S. forts, springs, lakes, mountains, routes of summer travel, best localities for hunting, fishing, sporting, and enjoyment, with all needful information for the pleasure traveler, miner, settler, or business man : a complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific Railroads, and all points of business or pleasure travel to California, Colorado, Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, Montana, the mines and mining of the Territories, the lands of the Pacific Coast, the wonders of the Rocky Mountains, the scenery of the Sierra Nevadas, the Colorado Mountains, the big trees, the geysers, the Yosemite, and the Yellowstone
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Shearer, Frederick E Williams, Henry T
Subjects: Union Pacific Railroad Company Central Pacific Railroad Company
Publisher: New York : Adams & Bishop
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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s);mim:l kock, i-.ciio canon. called The Great Republic. They are reallycurious formations, and wonderful to those wholook upon them for the first time. MonumentRock 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 It is within a cove andseems withdrawn from the front, as though shun-ning the gaze of the passing world, yet in a posi-tion to observe every thing that goes by.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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ROCK SCENES NEAR ECHO CITY.l.—\Vitilies Rooks. 2.—Battlement Rocks. 3.—Egyptian Tombs. 4.—Witches Bottles. 5.—Needle Rocks, near Wahsatch. WME ^m€iFI€ TQWBIBF. J17 is to pause at Eclio and let it pass, wliile youwait for tlie 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 conies in from the left, ojjposite Bromleys Cathedral, in front of which standsPulpit Rock on the most extended point asyou turn the elbow in the road. This Cathe-dral is named in honor of J. E. Bromley, Esq.,who has lived at Echo since 1858,and who camehere as a divi-sion s u p e r i n-tendent of BenH ol 1 a d ays0/erland Stageand ExpressI/ine. It extendssome distance—a mile or more-—around theIjend in themountain, andh Ji s numeroustowers andspires, turretsand domes, oneither side.Pulpit Rockis so called fromits resemblanceto an old-fash-ioned pulpit,and rises inplain view

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