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BOULDER CANON. 29

 

 

Manitou Springs; second, Idaho Springs; and _ third,
Boulder Canon with its unrivaled scenery, the climax
of the whole.”

In July, 1874, the Rev. T. H. Robinson, pastor of the
First Presbyterian Church, of Harrisburg, Pa., visited
this same beautiful canon, and in a series of lectures
which were published in the Dazly Telegraph, of
that city, thus describes his trip:

“One of the most delightful of all our mountain
rides was from Central City, by way of Rollinsville, to
Boulder. The pass through which we had come from
Rollinsville was filled with the brightest flowers, blos-
soming on each side of the road. We now followed
the line of Boulder creek, a fine trout spring, for
twenty-one miles through Boulder Canon to the great
plain. The ride was one long to be held in memory
for the beauty and grandeur of the scenery. The road-
way crosses the creek, during the way, over no less
than forty bridges, winding in and out among rough
and ragged rocks, in quiet shaded dells, where only
the musical dashing of the creek could be heard,
through magnificent openings in the cliffs, each turn
bringing to view some new prospect that seemed to
surpass all the others in sublimity or in its pictur-
esqueness. Below us rushed the creek, leaping from
boulder to boulder, swirling and seething around
among the rocks that had blocked up its way; now
flinging up its spray on the narrow rustic bridges over
which we crossed; now eddying about in some deep
pool, and anon dashing with tremendous fury against