Identifier: pacifictourist1879will (find matches)
Title: The Pacific tourist
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Williams, Henry T Shearer, Frederick E
Subjects: Union Pacific Railroad Company Central Pacific Railroad Company Railroad travel Railroad travel Railroad travel
Publisher: New York : H.T. Williams
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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dis to open upon his view. There is to bevariety—beauty, grandeur and sublimity. Ifhe enters this place at night, the following daywill reveal to him the green fields and magnifi-cent landscapes of California, and in less than24 hours, he will be able to feast his greedy eyesupon a glowing sunset on the Pacific Coast. Leaving Wadsworth we cross the TruckeeRiver and gaze with delight upon the trees, thegreen meadows, the comfortable farm-house, andwell-tilled fields of the ranche on our left, justacross the bridge. Like everything else lovelyin this world, it soon fades from our vision, aswe rapidly pass into the Truckee Canon. Themountains now come down on either side asthough they would shake hands across the silvertorrent that divides them. The valley narrowsas if to hasten their cordial grasp, and to removeall obstacles in their way. Now it widens alittle as though it was not exactly certainwhether these mountains should come togetheror not, and wanted to consider the matter. But
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