What to see in America . s iron supposed to be buried in the hole. However, a boringone thousand feet deep failed to reveal a trace of themeteor. Prob-ably the hole isthe result of anexplosion ofsteam from vol-canic forces be-low. Thirty-fivemiles west ofFlatstaff is Wil-liams, near whichis the Bill Wil-liams Mountain, over 9000 feet high. The mountain wasnamed after a famous scout who was killed by the Indiansfifty miles to the south. It can be ascended by an easybridle path. From Williams a branch railway runs nearlydue north sixty-four miles to the Grand Canyon. In thedepths of the canyon f
What to see in America . s iron supposed to be buried in the hole. However, a boringone thousand feet deep failed to reveal a trace of themeteor. Prob-ably the hole isthe result of anexplosion ofsteam from vol-canic forces be-low. Thirty-fivemiles west ofFlatstaff is Wil-liams, near whichis the Bill Wil-liams Mountain, over 9000 feet high. The mountain wasnamed after a famous scout who was killed by the Indiansfifty miles to the south. It can be ascended by an easybridle path. From Williams a branch railway runs nearlydue north sixty-four miles to the Grand Canyon. In thedepths of the canyon flows the Colorado River, which, withits tributaries, gathers the waters of 300,000 square miles. In Arizona it flows through a thousand-mile series of twentyvast canyons, most ofwhich have only ashort break Grand Canyon,monarch of all, is thethird, counting up-stream. It is anenormous gulf insolid rock, two hundred miles long, four thousand to sixthousand feet deep, and with a width of from seven to fifteen2g. TuMACACORi Church 450 What to See in America miles at the top, but less than a thousand feet at the canyon is a masterpiece of rock erosion — the handiworkof the river during long ages. Not only has the debris-laden water cut the channel but it has also disintegratedand carried away the thousand-fold more, of material thattumbled into it from the ever caving walls, which, as a result,rise in a series of shattered inclines with here and there avertical section. These cliffs are like huge steps, each threehundred to five hundred feet high, and the intervening slopesmark the outcrop of softer rocks. Down in the depths is anarrow inner canyon cut a thousand feet or more into thehard underlying granite and gneiss. Each of the strata hasan individual color. Many of the layers are brown or red,while others are gray, yellow, or green. The canyon is in acomparatively level and arid plain, desolate and uninhabit-able. The tributary streams of the Colorado c
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