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OCEAN TO OCEAN,

OVERLAND.

FROM SUNRISE TO SUNSET AND PART THE WAY BACK.

SunrisE—As the city of Halifax, in the
Province of Nova Scotia and Dominion
of Canada, is the extreme Eastern termi-
nus of the grand system of North Ameri-
can railways, which extend from its At-
lantic portal across the continent 3,646 miles
to San Francisco, its Pacific brother, it
would seem to be the most proper point in
the East from which we should first start

_¢2 our journey with the tourist or emi-

grant for the same destination.

At Halifax, the morning sun, as it rises
srom its apparent coldwater bath in the
broad ocean on the east, casts its golden
rays down upon the first rail-track that
spans a continent, and from the moment the
light strikes these iron bands of civilization
and progress, it seems to follow them up,
step by step, through populous cities, over
mighty rivers, across broad, treeless plains,
and towering snow-capped mountains, on,
on! towards the tropical regions of the
Every foot of the route, every ob-

spected, while rolling over to its daily bath,
in the mighty Pacific Ocean of the West.
Our course is in the same general direction,

| but our ¢7me will be slower; as we shall

linger by the way, and shall, after noting
the principal routes east of the Missouri
River, take the traveler with us over the
Union and Central Pacific railroads ; thence

over the Southern Pacific to Arizona, 2,634
miles.

We shall also take a run over the
“Republican Valley” branch of the
U.P. in Nebraska, glance at the Black
Hills, spin all over Colorado via the
Denver Pacific, the Colorado Central, the
Denver & Rio Grande; dive into the
mines, sip the waters of the famous Mani-
tou springs, and bathe in those of the cele-
brated Idaho; snatch a rose from the “Gar-
den of the Gods,” gaze up at the towering
Long’s, Pike’s, Veta and the Span-
ish peaks, thunder through the mighty
canons of Clear Creek, and over the great
Sangre de Christo mountains, at an eleva-
tion of 9,839 feet, the second highest rail-
road point in the world.

We will rattle through “Echo Canyon”
and the “Devil’s Gate’? to the land of
Zion, and over the Utah Central, South-
ern, American Fork, Bingham Canyon,
Wasatch & Jordan Valley, and the Western
railroads.

“We will glance at Utah Territory,
Salt Lake, the mines, the magnificent
scenery of the American Fork, then bound
away to the northward, over the Utah
Northern, and take a peep at the Great
Yellowstone National Park, the “Geysers,”
waterfalls, etc.

We will stand on the spot where the “last