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Show THE GREAT BASIN OF UTAH. 57 6 Earth and Man/ of this important geographical truth. " Permit me to subscribe myself, " Very respectfully and truly, yours, " J. H. SIMPSON, " Captain Topographical Engineers." " PRINCETON, N. J., June 20, 1860. " DEAR SIR, I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your most acceptable letter, and I thank you very heartily for the kind feelings expressed in it. Guyot Range of mountains will recall to my mind more than a lofty mountain chain; it will tell me of the sympathy that truths dear to me, because fruitful of much good and enjoyment for me and for many others, have found with you. Believe me, dear sir, when I say that I feel particularly gratified to find a man of your busy profession and of your attainments so well acquainted with and so appreciative of the views too briefly exposed in the little volume to which you allude in so kind terms. Common con-victions and a common faith on such grand topics are a bond of union among men which cannot easily be broken. So I shall now feel when thinking of you. " I have read with great interest the geological notice of Messrs. Meek and Engelmann on your geo-logical discoveries. The presence of all the great geological formations, from the Silurian and Devonian up to the Tertiary, in the Great Basin, and also the circumstance of the palaeozoic rocks constituting the chief formations west of the Salt Lake, are data |
