Identifier: announcementofpr00sedg (find matches)
Title: Announcement of Prof. S. J. Sedgwick's illustrated course of lectures and catalogue of stereoscopic views of scenery in all parts of the Rocky and Sierra Nevada mountains : between Omaha and San Francisco
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Sedgwick, S. J. (Stephen James) Union Pacific Railroad Company. Stereoscopic views across the Continent West from Omaha
Subjects: Stereoscopic views
Publisher: Newtown, Queens County, N.Y. : S.J. Sedgwick
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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e, with a dingy yellow and brick red color, andthey stand up in many a fantastic form from 500 to 800 feet in height.The Dial, the Washington, and Cathedral are the mostconspicuous. On the top of one is an eagles nest. After leaving the Laramie Plains the scanty growth of sage brushand the surface of the land, covered with alkali, in some places likea light fall of snow flakes and the water so impregnated with it, and sobitter as to be offensive to the taste and injurious to the health ofman and animal, present to the eye a dreary region. Such the out-ward aspect, but to the geologist one of the most interesting of locali-ties—confirming the remark of Humboldt, that to see is not alwaysto observe. The Banks of the Green River present some very beautiful and re-markable scenes. The stratified rocks on the east bank, and the deepcuts and fossil banks on the west side furnish abundance of subjectsfor pen and camera. He creates a feeling of enthusiasm in the minds of his audience closeb
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allied to the actual experience of the journey.—New York Evening Telegram. Those absent would sufficiently regret their loss, if they fully comprehended

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