. Echoes from the Rocky Mountains : reminiscences and thrilling incidents of the romantic and golden age of the great West, with a graphic account of its discovery, settlement, and grand development . escued at length, they builta fire of driftwood upon therocks and dried their clothes. A mile below this campthey were caught in anotherseries of swift-rolling rapids,and for ten miles dancedaway on one long windingchute until suddenly the madroar of a great fall was barely succeeded inlanding above it, and makinganother portage. At thispoint they passed out of thegranite walls and ran
. Echoes from the Rocky Mountains : reminiscences and thrilling incidents of the romantic and golden age of the great West, with a graphic account of its discovery, settlement, and grand development . escued at length, they builta fire of driftwood upon therocks and dried their clothes. A mile below this campthey were caught in anotherseries of swift-rolling rapids,and for ten miles dancedaway on one long windingchute until suddenly the madroar of a great fall was barely succeeded inlanding above it, and makinganother portage. At thispoint they passed out of thegranite walls and ran intolimestone, which, in time,was succeeded by marblewith occasional patches ofgranite. They passed a streamon the right which leapedinto the Colorado by a directfall of more than one hundredfeet forming a beautiful cas-cade. At its base werebeautiful ferns with enam-eled stalks. A few miles be-yond monuments of lavastood in the liver, and vastquantities of cooled lava andmany cinder cones were seenon both sides, terminated byan abrupt cataract. Beyond the falls, uponthe very brink of the canon,they beheld an extinct vol-cano, with a well-definedcrater from which hadpoured vast floods of lava. CLIMBING THE GRAND CANON. 232 ECHOES FROM THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS. into the river beu, creating the falls. On the opposite side, 200 feetabove the base, a river burst forth from a crevice and rolled into theColorado. The lava line rose 1,500 feet above the river bed and filledthe side canons. Again they passed within granite walls and reached the head ofmighty rapids, composed of a succession of falls. Boulders in the riverformed a dam over which the waters fell twenty feet. For 300 yardsbeyond there was a rapid, beset with rocks, from the bottom of whichon the right a great rock projected half-way across the river. Thenthere was a second fall below. Then a rapid filled with huge rocksfor 200 yards. It looked as if death was before them. They musteither go over the falls or climb out of the
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