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Title: The Pacific coast scenic tour, from southern California to Alaska, the Canadian Pacific railway, Yellowstone Park and the Grand Cañon
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Finck, Henry Theophilus, 1854-1926
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Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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d the golden clouds;and the scene becomes truly sublime as we watch thefaint, rosy sunset glimmer gradually climbing onesummit after another, and fading away till only one tipretains its tinge, thereby proving that it is the highestof the peaks, though seemingly it is not. Knowing therate of the suns motion, why should it not be possibleto measure the height of inaccessible mountains by thuswatching the fading sunset glow on them? An oldfisherman, to whom I described the Swiss Alpgliihenydeclared that he had never seen anything just like it atTahoe, but the scene I had just witnessed was a veryfair substitute for it. Strolling along the shores of Tahoe one can enjoy asolitude as profound as if no human eye has ever beforegazed on this liquid mountain mirror in a Sierra frame.A few logs here and there, in the water or washedashore, are the only visible signs that man has everbeen there. The faint, distant roar of a torrent, or themocking of that sound by the melancholy voices of pines,
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LAKE TAHOE AND VIRGINIA CITY. 133 oiily intensifies tlie feeling of isolation. Two weeks pre-viously I liad been at the Yosemite, where the flowersand bushes were in full bloom; but Tahoe lies two thou-sand feet higher, and some distance farther north thanthat Valley, hence the season is later. The first flowerswere just budding out here, and the smooth, alligator-skinned manzanita bush was only in flower, while at Yo-semite it had already formed its -little apples a fortnightsooner. There, too, the hotels were open in the middle ofApril, while of those on the shores of Tahoe only one hadopened its doors for the season, and the fire was burningall day long in our little inn at Tahoe City. At thesupper-table Nevada beef was neglected for the moresucculent lake-trout. They are delicious, especially thesilver trout: yet I saw a man at the next table committhe gastronomic atrocity of putting Worcestershire sauceon Tahoe silver trout. Then he called to the waiter-girl, a buxom, rosy-cheeke

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