Excerpt from The Mormons and the Silver MinesWe had no barren moors, no tame-swelling downs, no bare, harsh-outlined Scotch hills, no uniform table-mounts, but rich foliage and glorious forests at first, with rocks of every hue and form, set off by firs and snow, as we clambered higher.Then, to pass through the Palisades - 40 rush thirty miles an hour along that tortuous canyon.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.