THE BAD LANDS. 



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Missouri, which are " bad " indeed for travellers, since the 

 whole country is one huge labyrinth of ruins, which at times 

 ook like those of some gigantic city (Fig. 24). Here are 



Fig. 24. BAD LANDS, NEAR FORT BRIDGER, IN THE UNITED STATES. 



fragments of apparently Cyclopean masonry, walls, pin- 

 nacles, ramparts, terraces, obelisks, pyramids, fortifications, 

 all heaped together in the wildest confusion, and baked 

 of various colours from deep red and brown to pale yellow 

 or china white. Here and there are towers and spires, 



