. The Yellowstone National Park : historical and descriptive : illustrated with maps, views and portraits . in thiscanon a suitable hall for the great judgment, with the na-tions of the earth filing along the bottom upon waterscongealed and transfixed with the agitations of that day,all descriptions do injustice to their subject. They fallshort of their mark or overreach it. They are not true tonature. We shall, therefore, pass them by, and shall com-mend our readers to a study of this great wonderworkfrom the pine-clad verge of the Grand Canon itself. Back perhaps a quarter of a mile from Ins
. The Yellowstone National Park : historical and descriptive : illustrated with maps, views and portraits . in thiscanon a suitable hall for the great judgment, with the na-tions of the earth filing along the bottom upon waterscongealed and transfixed with the agitations of that day,all descriptions do injustice to their subject. They fallshort of their mark or overreach it. They are not true tonature. We shall, therefore, pass them by, and shall com-mend our readers to a study of this great wonderworkfrom the pine-clad verge of the Grand Canon itself. Back perhaps a quarter of a mile from InspirationPoint, but within fifty yards of the brink of the canon,is a huge rectangular block of granite* which rests alonein the woods, a most singular and striking object. It isevidently an intruder in unfamiliar territory, for there isnot a particle of granite outcrop known to exist withintwenty miles. It must have been transported to this placefrom some distant quarry by the powerful agencies of theGlacial Epoch. Right Bank of the Canon. Half a mile above the Upper * Approximately 24 x 20 x 18 Granite Boulder, near Inspiration Point. A TOUR OF THE PARK. 321 Fall is a concrete steel bridge, of the design known as theMelan Arch, spanning the Yellowstone Kiver and givingaccess to the right bank. The arch has a span of 120 feet,one of the longest of the kind yet built. From this bridge aroad leads down the canon as far as Artist Point, fromwhich Thomas Moran drew his inspiration for the cele-brated painting which now adorns the Capitol at Wash-ington. This road affords the best possible view to be had of theUpper Falls, and leads to the head of a long stairway bywhich a safe descent can be made to the bottom of thecanon at the foot of the Lower Falls. This is a side ex-cursion well worth taking, though a rather laborious view from below is very impressive and the proximityto the falls gives one a sense of the terrible power of thisgreat cataract, which can not be r
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