The Pacific tourist (1879) (14761437055)

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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

Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library

Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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canon wall, aquarter of a mile far-ther down, and from thebrink of the precipiceover which the riverplunges. Let us approachand look over. Down,down goes the whirl-ing mass, wi-ithing andbattling with the rocks,against which it dasheswith a noise like the dis-charge of heavy artillery. Here and there, aresisting rock is met, and the water rebouibroken into myriads of drops, which throwback to us the sunlight resolved into its primi-tive colors. The bottom reached, the columnbreaks into an immense cloud of spray, whosemoisture nourishes the vegetation on the wallsnear the fall. The river, before it pours overthe edge, narrows to about a hundred feet.The height of the fall has been variouslygiven. The measurement with a line in 1870,gave 3.50 feet as the result. Triangulation froma base line on the edge of the canon, by theGeological Survey in l872, made it 397 feet,and a barometrical measurement in 1873, byCaptain Jones, made it 328.7 feet. The Upper Falls are about a quarter of a mile

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