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The track from Sheyenne to Denver lies along the foot of the Mountains, & is about one hundred & ten miles in length. On your left crossed out is boundless plain, on your right are the Mountains rising suddenly, like a wave, out of the plain. The first range is either scantily clothed with pine forests, or show only the naked dark colored rock. Behind & above this is the showy dividing ridge, which unclear in summer & autumn has unclear only on its big west peaks. In some places like unclear range is of a bright red, as if the mountain were faced with red brick. From the picturesque point of view the defect of the mountains is that they keep too much to the straight line. This is not observed when you get away from them, but tis very perceptible from the Plain, into which no outlying hills, or spurs obtrude on this route. St unclear & Burlington are the most important places you pass. Each of them appears to have a population of three or four hundred unclear; they are only separated from each other by a stream. But it is sufficient to render the land on its banks capable of unclear; & this in a region where there is so llittle land that can be made to produce anything except prairie grass, is sufficient to account for the existence of the two places. The other cities along the route are only wooden public houses, where the coach changes horses; & at some of which it is arranged that the passengers shall have something to eat. It is to the credit of the Landlords of these cities on the Plains that what they provide for their guests is good of its kind which can not be said of any one of the purveyors for the five hundred miles of railway between Sheyenne & Omaha