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Excerpt from The Switzerland of America: A Summer Vacaton in the Parks and Mountains of Colorado
These letters of a Summer Vacation, in saddle and camp, among the great Central Parks and Mountains of America in Colorado, are gathered into this volume in order both to satisfy and stimulate the public interest in a region of our New West destined to a peculiar place in the future of America. We saw enough of it in our stage ride across the Continent in 1865 to suggest that it would become the Switzerland of America; Bayard Taylor, a wider traveler and closer observer, made a more familiar tour in 1866, and more formally pronounced the same judgment; and now, after a new visit, and an intimate acquaintance with all its details, we find our original enthusiasm more than rekindled, our original thought confirmed.
The distinctive physical feature of Colorado is her wide elevated Parks, lying among her double and treble folds of the continental range of mountains - great plains, like counties in Illinois and Iowa, or states in New England, six thousand to nine thousand feet above the sea-level, surrounded by mountains that rise from three to five thousand feet higher; plains, green with grass, dark with groves, bright with flowers; mountains, dreary with rocks, white with snow.
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