. Yellowstone National Park . t surely nonecombining such grandeur and immensity and peculiarity offormation and profusion of volcanic or chemical again: The combinations of metallic lustres in the coloringof the walls are truly wonderful, surpassing, doubtless, anythingof the kind on the face of the globe. Rudyard Kipling wrote: All that I can say is that withoutwarning or preparation I looked into a gulf 1,700 feet deep, witheagles and fish-hawks circling far below. And the sides of that gulf were one wild welterof color—crimson, emerald,cobalt, ochre, amber, honeysplashed with
. Yellowstone National Park . t surely nonecombining such grandeur and immensity and peculiarity offormation and profusion of volcanic or chemical again: The combinations of metallic lustres in the coloringof the walls are truly wonderful, surpassing, doubtless, anythingof the kind on the face of the globe. Rudyard Kipling wrote: All that I can say is that withoutwarning or preparation I looked into a gulf 1,700 feet deep, witheagles and fish-hawks circling far below. And the sides of that gulf were one wild welterof color—crimson, emerald,cobalt, ochre, amber, honeysplashed with port wine,snow-white, vermilion,lemon and silver-grey inwide washes. The sides didnot fall sheer, but weregraven by time and waterand air into monstrousheads of kings, dead chiefs—men and women of theold time. So far below thatno sound of its strife couldreach us, the YellowstoneRiver ran, a finger-widestrip of jade green. The sunlight took thosewondrous walls and gavefresh hues to those thatNature had already Kepler Cascade—a Series of Falls,Aggregating a Fall of 150 Feet Page Eight Evening crept through the pines that shadowed us, but thefull glory of the day flamed in that Canyon as we went out verycautiously to a jutting piece of rock—blood-red or pink it was—that overhung the deepest deeps of all. The famous artist Moran said: Its beautiful tints werebeyond the reach of human art; and General Sherman, referringto Morans painting of the Canyon, said: The painting byMoran in the Capitol is good, but painting and words are unequalto the subject. Folsom, connected with the private expedition of 69, andwho first wrote of the Canyon, said: Language is entirelyinadequate to convey a just conception of the awful grandeurand sublimity of this most beautiful of Natures handiwork. The Lower Fall of the Yellowstone is almost twice as high asNiagara—310 feet—and while not nearly so much water flowsover it, it is far more beautiful. The Upper Fall is still mor
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