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south valleys; a western, along the Sevier River, which here 
ows north to the westward bend. that takes it to Sevier Lake, “a 
and the Markagunt, “a true plateau,” about 11,000 feet in height. 
Between the Sevier and Grass Valleys there are two plateaus, the 
Sevier, 80 miles long, cut through near its middle by the east-and- 
west gorge of the Kast Fork ; and south of this the Paunsigunt 
plateau, “ bounded on three sides by lofty battlements of marvel- 
ous sculpture and glowing color.” East of Grass Valley, and its 
line to the south (along which commences the Paria River), three 
plateaus are distinguished: the Wahsatch, extending somewhat 
farther north than the Pavant (to the parallel of 40°), where it 
joins, in an en echelon way, the Wahsatch range proper; the Fish- 
Lake plateau east of Fish Lake, but 15 miles long, yet 11,400 feet 
high; the Awapa plateau, which almost blends with the preced- 
ing but is of less altitude, and is 30 miles long by 20 in breadth, 
its top a treeless, rolling prairie, sloping feebly to the eastward ; 
and the Aquarius, 11,600 feet high in its eastern part, 35 miles in 
length by 10 to 18 in breadth, the grandest of all the High Pla- 
teaus, its “three sides, the south, west and east, walled by dark 
battlements of volcanic rock,” and descending to “ the dismal des- 
ert in the heart of the Plateau country,” while its broad summit 
is clad with forests of spruce, and has its grassy parks and scores 
is gained the story of ‘Jack and the beanstalk,’ the finding of a 
strange and beautiful country somewhere up in the region of the 
sage, the prickly pear, and a few cedars that writhe and contort 
their stunted limbs under a scorching sun. ay we are among 
forests of rare beauty and luxuriance; the air is moist and cool, 
the grasses are green and rank, and hosts of flowers deck the turf 
like the hues of a Persian carpet. The forest opens in wide parks 
and winding avenues, which the fancy can easily people with fays 
