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Identifier: explorationsurve002stan (find matches)
Title: Exploration and survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah : including a reconnoissance of a new route through the Rocky Mountains.
Year: 1853 (1850s)
Authors: Stansbury, Howard Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887 Birard, Charles Frédéric, 1822-1895 Haldeman, Samuel Stehman, 1812-1880 Torrey, John, 1796-1873 Hall, James, 1811-1898 United States. Army. Corps of Topographical Engineers
Subjects: Mormons Mormon Church
Publisher: Washington : Robert Armstrong, Public Printer
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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VIEW OF PART OF THE WESTERN SLOPE OF FROlvIUMTURY RANGE, GREAT SALT LAKE
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ROCK ABBEY INDIAN SPRINGS. 173 To the north, the rugged and rocky eminences gradually recedefrom the shore; to which, a few miles further on, they again returnin a superb semicircular sweep; forming a landscape in the highestdegree picturesque and beautiful, to which nothing is wanting buttrees. In the centre of the arc a fantastic mass of rock rearedits gigantic outline against the sky, presenting from the camp astriking resemblance to an old ruined abbey, glowing and glisten-ing in the rays of the setting sun. Immediately behind us rose a rounded knob, some two hundredfeet in height, composed of one solid limestone rock, in the cre-vices of which grew, in graceful luxuriance, the everlasting bunch-grass, so characteristic of this region. Upon the shore, amongthe boulders with which it was thickly strewn, I obtained somefine specimens of dark compact limestone, containing well-definedfossils of Cyathophyllum and Strepletasma. The shore party reached camp about dark. They reported fin

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Stansbury, Howard; Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887; Birard, Charles Frédéric, 1822-1895; Haldeman, Samuel Stehman, 1812-1880; Torrey, John, 1796-1873; Hall, James, 1811-1898;

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