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Identifier: aroundcircle00denv (find matches)
Title: "Around the circle."
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Denver and Rio Grande railroad company. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: (Chicago, Knight, Leonard & co., printers)
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atoms against the cliffs, buteach time a slight turn is made and the train rounds the promontory in safety.Soon the tourist finds himself in the heart of the mountain. Peak uponpeak rises above him, until the splintered summits seem to touch the sky.Darker and darker grow the shadows, narrower and still more narrow growsthe gorge, deeper and deeper grows the gloom, the river ceases its roaring,the noise of the train is hardly perceptible, for the engineer has slowed up,and the Royal Gorge is at hand. Here the canon is not wide enough forroad and river, and here is one of the most remarkable feats of engineering.Right across the gorge, fifty feet wide at the base and perhaps seventy at thesummit, which soars above to a height of nearly three thousand feet, aseries of great iron braces has been thrown, from which huge iron bars de-pend, holding a long iron bridge in suspension, that clings to the face of thecliff, and runs, not across, but parallel with the course of the river. The eye
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Around the Circle/ 35 can scarcely comprehend the stupendous height of the perpendicular cliffswhose summits pierce the heavens half a mile above our heads. After beholding the Royal Gorge the traveler has a superlative comparisonfor all that is wonderful and grand in nature. He has seen something whichhe can never forget, and of the many marvels of this mar\-elous journeyAround the Circle, the greatest of them all, the crowning glory, is theRoyal Gorge. It will not be inappropriate to make some special mention of several ofthe more important points of interest on the circle tour, and we add below ashort description of the Royal ^Gorge, Toltec Gorge, AnimasCanon, Black Canon of the Gunnison, and the Marshall Pass. THE BLACK CAXOxN. In all the world there is no place so beautiful, imposing, sublime and awful,that may be so easy and comfortably visited, as the Black Canon, for the ironhorse of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad has a pathway through the canon,and he draws after him co

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  • bookdecade:1890
  • bookcentury:1800
  • bookauthor:Denver_and_Rio_Grande_railroad_company___from_old_catalog_
  • bookpublisher:_Chicago__Knight__Leonard___co___printers_
  • bookcontributor:The_Library_of_Congress
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  • bookleafnumber:39
  • bookcollection:library_of_congress
  • bookcollection:americana
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