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Show 84 FROM VVANSHIP The feelings of admiration for the beautiful in nature as seen in my ride along Silver Creek, watching its " laughing waters," were changed to those of wonder and awe, when I stood before the towering mountains and rugged cliffs in Parley's Canon. There nature was seen in her wildest and most majestic forms. Great strata of rocks, hundreds of feet thick, as they lay where originally formed, had been fissured through, and on one side of the fissure thrown up to form immense mountains bordering the canon. The strata of these were as regular as when they were subterra nean horizontal layers ; but now running at an angle of forty- five degrees, and where they had broken off, cropped out along the sides of almost perpendicular bluffs. In places they could be seen only along the one side where they terminated ; but here and there a mass had been thrown up, which had been fissured in two ways where the strata could be traced along its sides also. The thought of the force required thus to upheave the very foundations of the earth was an almost overwhelming thought. It filled me with profound awe and reverence. The terrific force still pent up in the bowels of the earth beneath, I could never before so fully comprehend as when I observed its effects there be fore me. Had I known nothing of the Creator I should have worshipped the " Unknown God," amid such wonderful evidences of majestic power. The canon varies much in width and in some places the stream runs so near the bluffs as not to permit two wagons to pass. In such places many teams had to wait for our column and train to get by, and even the mail- coach had to give up the right of way. The stream here is larger than Silver Creek, and its fall in twelve or fifteen miles I would estimate as considerably over two thousand feet ; and as there are no cascades of more than a few feet in height, the water along the canon rushes rapidly over its uneven and rocky bed. A curious and beautiful phenomenon appeared on the slope of the moun tain on the south side as we were nearing the terminus of the pass. It was a large stream pouring from an opening |