. In & around the Grand Canyon; the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River in Arizona . rials,— sandstone, sandy clay, blue marl, —and the rock,cut, washed, scarred, and carved by all the uninter-rupted forces of nature, that in such places as theseseem to enjoy their work of creating desolation. If one follows the windings of the Little Colo-rado River, about sixty miles of walled-in, boxed-upcanyon are presented, every mile of it grand,stupendous, overpowering. During the dry season,the upper portion of this canyon is almost dry,often entirely so, the light flows of water fromthe sources in the
. In & around the Grand Canyon; the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River in Arizona . rials,— sandstone, sandy clay, blue marl, —and the rock,cut, washed, scarred, and carved by all the uninter-rupted forces of nature, that in such places as theseseem to enjoy their work of creating desolation. If one follows the windings of the Little Colo-rado River, about sixty miles of walled-in, boxed-upcanyon are presented, every mile of it grand,stupendous, overpowering. During the dry season,the upper portion of this canyon is almost dry,often entirely so, the light flows of water fromthe sources in the Arizona White Mountains dis-appearing in the sand and gravel soon after theirappearance. But about twenty miles from thejunction of the Little Colorado River wath themain Colorado River, nearly parallel with KohoninoPoint, there flows out a large body of water at the THE GRAND CANYON 219 base of the canyon wall that makes a stream ofconsiderable size. This water is strongly impreg-nated with mineral, and is blue in appearance, andwhen free from the mud and filth of the upper. Mineral Spring in the Canyon of the LittleColorado. waters of the Little Colorado, offers an unspeak-ably beautiful spectacle as it flows on to join thewaters of the great river below. There has beenmuch conjecture as to the source of this largestream. I am satisfied, from extended observationon the Kohonino Plateau, between the Little Colo-rado Canyon and the San Francisco Mountains,that it has its rise in the water-soaked slopes ofthe latter. Indeed, in several places I have foundholes in the rock on this plateau, into which the 220 IN AND AROUND wind was sucked with great velocity, so much sothat on tearing up slips of paper and placing themwithin reach of this in-sucking current, they im-mediately disappeared. I can only account for thissuction by the flowing of a strong current of waterunderneath. It was a weary drive from Willow Spring to LeesFerry. One night the horses got away and startedback f
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