The Mountains Of Colorado

Th o mountam ranges of Uolorado oovex in area of 60,000 to 70,000 square miles. This excludes bodily the entire territory east of this point. All Switzerland coters but 16,000 square miles, or, to ba accurate, 15,990. The faot is, Switxerland, compared to Colorado, ia one of the littla toy cows to a living buffulo. Tou can take up tho whole little State and set it down in either the North, Middle or South Park without touching tho rim of tho mountains which wall in these singular inclosures. These parks are each of them from 24,000 to 28,000 square miles in extent, and the San Louis il nearl'y as lp.rge as all three. Sofar as to magnitude, whioh is oertainly an element of mountain scenery- as to pure scenic beauty - of course the evidence cannot be reduced to figures, but it is reasonable to suppose that thii vast expanse of gigantio ranges, endless canyons, bottomless gulohes,. with its lakes swung 12.000 feet in the air, and its cascades and icy waterfalls still higher - with its eternal snows and preAdamite stone forests of tropical efflorescence - ofFers all of picturesque and wild effect that any other land or región can claim. Cali Switzerland the "Miniature Colorado of Europe " if you please, but let us havo done forever with the other phrase, which ha3 little orno meanincr in itself when tho above facts ara considered. - -Phrenological Journal.