Show PICTURED ROCKS BOCKS there is a locality on the southern shore of lake superior where for miles the perpendicular cliffs rising from the water are said to exhibit most wonderful pictures that people see pictures there Is true I 1 have seen many myself that all persons see the same pictures to is impossible for the reason that the beholders imagination has much to do with the pictures the aforesaid cliffs are superimposed layers of sandstone of different colors por for ages the action of frost mud and water upon the rocks has blended the colors in all kinds of figures and lines some early explorer of the upper lake region saw the cliffs cliffa and a nd their colors and named them the pictured rocks then men came the gaping crowd of tourists sweeping past year after year on stately steamers and goin into obstacles over it did clearly know that I 1 have found in little cottonwood canyon pictured rocks tar far more majestic than those of lake superior they are on the face of a white and blue cliff having a perpendicular face of perhaps six hundred feet the pictures are not produced by action of the elements now beating upon the rock but were made long ago when the earth was comparatively young and all this mountainous land lay flat fiat and undisturbed at the bottom of a vaster pacific ocean than that of today the pictures axe are outlines of white limestone running through blue or of blue lines in the white rock but chiefly tae th former the pictures are glyphs glyphis an may be called hieroglyphs bac because there are features of the cliff that clearly suggest the nile valley an and since it is said to be becoming ca clea that ours was the home of earliest mankind and egyptian one of tj the arlim e 0 old es t civilizations imagination may ina figure some ancient god laying do downs sediment in the ocean that in later aee would bear testimony to the sons of men and women on the towering sky line of ahli this magnificent cliff stand the pretot of those three great pyramids that i from egyptian sands the wonder the world near them my fancy sees also the sphinx and other 0 shapes of that ancient masonry the strangest thing about it all is glyph writing on the pyramids 1 I halt half inclined to think it contains dt S erections lons ions for finding the treasures ald den beneath and may endeavor promote an english comp com Danyl limited to search the only is my conviction that if the com comnas should find anything the alta buix kuziara bu ziara would jump it i writing of pictures and features H the rocks reminds me of a face to IM seen in franconia Fran conla notch in the mountains of new england it Is bauhs most perfect thing of the kind I 1 ev saw and seen in profile the res desei blance to a human face is rema remark ble then there is rooster rock the columbia near portland or oread e go A gigantic brown legh leghorn orn appel appears ri a have straightened himself up un 0 on morning in the long ago to wake i farmers wife on the opposite she ah when he suddenly underwent some i a change as in popular belief oce mccu to lots wife but joking aside I 1 know 0 mountain feature in utah that is wonderful I 1 discovered it years yeara and have returned to it again a again to assure myself that it re remah I 1 have have often thought of mention it but bait its very strangeness hag haa d berred me for the reason that ma m will say it was only an attempt pander to the mormons cormons Mor mons 1 I 1 am going to call attention to it n because I 1 want to know if any 4 oaf person has ever seen it I 1 shall not S the location because I 1 want my edge of that in reserve for the prears res the tact fact then is that upon the te an of a mountain in utah there app annaa a gigantic outline of a sleeping iria or ar dead knight whose face seen tn in m file bears a most sin singular bingula gula r likeness the death mask ff of joseph smith prophet of the I 1 mormons cormons and founder of their church 3 I 1 am sau satia that it if I 1 were a mormon I 1 would in this likeness the hand of the X in placing the semblance of is 0 cettl representative on the sum summit M mountains overlooking the p kroml 0 land of his people in the latter da day there is only one point from w wl this figure can be seen and I 1 i like to know if any eyes save m have made the discovery I 1 am you however that I 1 make no ral nat about it and will undertake tw to 5 an excursion to view it at any t when the dreaming days of oct oc have cooled the fires of old sol CHARLES E blia alta july 26 1898 t |