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^yz^J^'E were now in the Great Valley, fifty miles below 

 '^7^// Salt Lake City. We corraled on the edge of a 

 f S^ plain extending from the mountain to Lake 

 Utah. The section we were in was oval in shape and sur- 

 rounded by high mountains covered with snow\ In the centre 

 was the Lake, its waters shining brightly in the sun, and from 

 the mouth of its gloomy canon we could see the Provo River 

 winding through a desolate plain toward the inland sea. The 

 dreary plain, the gleaming lake and rugged surroundings 

 formed a scene of quiet grandeur I never will forget. 



On the 5th w^e continued up the valley. The road was 

 smooth, and w^e made good time. Evidences that we were ap- 

 proaching civilization were hourly becoming apparent. At 

 first we saw, rising above the plain, an object w^hich proved to 

 be a farm house, but it was so far from us that we could only 

 see its outlines ; but further on we came to cultivated grounds 

 enclosed with mud walls and arranged for irrigation. My 

 readers can hardly understand how w^e felt at seeing the haunts 

 of a civilized people; but if they w^ill recall the time which had 

 elapsed since we left the States, it will not seem strange that 

 these foreign homes of a still more foreign people arose before 

 our eyes like friends long separated. Other farms and cottages 

 came in sight, and sundry of their dwellers began to line the 



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