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Show 82 FROM WANSHIP or twelve feet. The dashing mail- coach is the terror of those who drive light vehicles along these narrow places. Throughout the canon the range of tall hills on both sides was quite destitute of gorges or abrupt cliffs, and many with neatly rounded dome- like summits. The canon be ing so narrow, where there was a somewhat short curve in its course the hills on the two sides appeared to meet and terminate the pass, and more than once was I completely deceived, thinking it impossible to go much further without ascending a very steep hill, but I looked in vain for the road up its sides, and going to the spot, found it to continue on as before, only changing its direction. The windings of the canon added to the beauty of the scenery. But the most attractive feature was the beautiful creek. Along it, and it was constantly in sight, the green leaves of the wil low, and the shrubbery growing on its banks, contrasted beautifully with the silvery waters that glided by them, and a more lovely sight of this character I never beheld. In places the water ran over pebbles and boulders, which could ' be seen as distinctly as if through the clearest crystal, and here and there a little cascade leaped from a projecting rock to form an eddy below, so inviting as a lurking- place for the mountain trout. And gushing from the hill by the roadside were numerous springs, rivalling, if possible, the clear waters of the creek. Amid such beauties of nature we marched about eight miles. It was the season best suited for seeing the canon with its greatest attractions. All nature seemed to conspire to render the scene grand and lovely ! Leaving the canon we passed over a ridge to Parley's Park, a wide valley or basin, nearly surrounded by mountains and hills. It might be easily irrigated, and the whole might be put under a high degree of cultivation, provided the climate is not too cold, for like Fort Bridger this locality is very high. This park, as well as the canon, which we will reach presently, are named after a prominent Mormon, Parley Pratt, once one of the Apostles, who was assassinated a few years ago by the enraged husband of a womafi who became a convict to Mormonism, through the ministry of |