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Where rose the mountains there to him were friends Where rolled the ocean thereon was his home Where a blue sky and glowing clime extends, He had the passion and the power to roam 3 The desert, forest, cavern, breakers' foam, Were unto him companionship, All this companionship shall the Childe Harold of to day find unsurpassed in our Western World. The Trans Continental Railroad has brought within easy reach a land as full of fascination as ever the scenes of Arabian Nights were to our youthful years.
That many notions of the country beyond the Rocky Mountains are false, or at the best but crude, there is no denying. The traveller cannot take stock -to use their own pet phrase - in the statements of every West erner not that there is always an intention to deceive, but the high pressure under which they have lived for the last twenty-nve years has produced what an American himself has aptly termed an exaggerated Yankee. Still, on travelling through the land one finds variety of character, peculiarity of custom, freaks of nature, productiveness of soil, wealth of minerals, breadth of prairie, grandeur of forest and magnificence of mountain scenery often exceed ing the most enlarged expectation. Who has ever pictured the Yosemite? Watkins has photographed it; Bierstadt painted it ready pen and eloquent tongue have described it, - and yet all have failed. The half has not been told us. It is well worth while to come from afar to see for one's self.
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Where rose the mountains there to him were friends Where rolled the ocean thereon was his home Where a blue sky and glowing clime extends, He had the passion and the power to roam 3 The desert, forest, cavern, breakers' foam, Were unto him companionship, All this companionship shall the Childe Harold of to day find unsurpassed in our Western World. The Trans Continental Railroad has brought within easy reach a land as full of fascination as ever the scenes of Arabian Nights were to our youthful years.
That many notions of the country beyond the Rocky Mountains are false, or at the best but crude, there is no denying. The traveller cannot take stock -to use their own pet phrase - in the statements of every West erner not that there is always an intention to deceive, but the high pressure under which they have lived for the last twenty-nve years has produced what an American himself has aptly termed an exaggerated Yankee. Still, on travelling through the land one finds variety of character, peculiarity of custom, freaks of nature, productiveness of soil, wealth of minerals, breadth of prairie, grandeur of forest and magnificence of mountain scenery often exceed ing the most enlarged expectation. Who has ever pictured the Yosemite? Watkins has photographed it; Bierstadt painted it ready pen and eloquent tongue have described it, - and yet all have failed. The half has not been told us. It is well worth while to come from afar to see for one's self.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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