Brooklyn Museum Quarterly . loom^—in others it is inspiring—sublime! Neverhave I seen cliffs so rich in color nor so fantastic in , Castlerock and many more are the fanciful namesthat have been applied to parts of the canyon, but none ofthese breathes its spell and grandeur. Different must havebeen the feeling of the Mormon pioneer who in the templesand towers of the canyon saw and felt the abode of God,for he called it the Canyon of Zion. Three days later I camped with my guide at the EarlesDry Farm on the Lower Kolob Plateau, elevation 7,000feet. The farmer was proud of his
Brooklyn Museum Quarterly . loom^—in others it is inspiring—sublime! Neverhave I seen cliffs so rich in color nor so fantastic in , Castlerock and many more are the fanciful namesthat have been applied to parts of the canyon, but none ofthese breathes its spell and grandeur. Different must havebeen the feeling of the Mormon pioneer who in the templesand towers of the canyon saw and felt the abode of God,for he called it the Canyon of Zion. Three days later I camped with my guide at the EarlesDry Farm on the Lower Kolob Plateau, elevation 7,000feet. The farmer was proud of his fields of rye, alreadystanding two feet high. But he felt anxious over his pros-pects for corn. Cutworms were nipping off the youngplants just below the surface of the soil. Always in dangerof drought and troubled with weeds and insect pests, the dryfarmers life is beset with cares. Adjacent to the farm,among ledges weathered into curious shapes, were massesof white lupine, yuccas, prickly-pear with magenta blossoms 44. SPHINX ROCK, LOWER KOLOB PLATEAU and beautiful sago lilies,piuple and pink. Here wecollected a number of cicadas,locating them by their buzz-ing song. Once, expectingto grab a cicada among thelupines, I narrowly avoidedthe strike of a rattler. I havebeen deceived before by thesimilarity of the song of western cicadas to the buzzing ofa rattle-snake, but heretofore my experience has been alwaysto find a cicada instead of a rattler. This time it was re-versed. Leaving Earles Farm and ascending 2,000 feet over arocky, zig-zagging road, we camped next at Blue Springson the Upper Kolob Plateau. This region, far from beinglevel, on the contrary is intersected by deep ravines oftensurmounted by black, volcanic cones, or sheer bluffs, vari-ously colored by the rock of which they are composed. Be-
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