2-752-388 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Devil's Gate, Weber Cañon', 1874. Rock formation in the Wasatch Range Utah, USA. 'The Devil's Gate - a black, ragged opening in one part of the great gorge, through which the foaming waters of the [Weber] river rush white and noisy...is well named. A very spirit of darkness seems to brood over the place. On each side, the broken cliffs lie in shadow; the thundering water roars below; there is no verdure but a blasted tree here and there; great bowlders lie in the bed of the stream and...seen through the gap, there are black hills and mountain-summits overlooking them. And there is a cool wind here, that is like a breeze blown across the Styx, and that is never still, even in the hottest summer day'. From "Picturesque America; or, The Land We Live In, A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains, Rivers, Lakes...with Illustrations on Steel and Wood by Eminent American Artists" Vol. II, edited by William Cullen Bryant. [D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1874]