Chapter 27: XXVII

XXVII In which Passepartout undergoes, at a speed of twenty miles an hour, a course of Mormon history. During the night of the 5th of December, the train ran southeasterly for about fifty miles; then rose an equal distance in a northeasterly direction, towards the Great Salt Lake. Passepartout, about nine o’clock, went out upon the platform to take the air. The weather was cold, the heavens grey, but it was not snowing. The sun’s disc, enlarged by the mist, seemed an enormous ring of g…