. To California and back;. been prevailed upon to use their influence with thebeneficent powers for the space of a whole year inbehalf of their dusky worshipers. CANON DIABLO. This, the Devil Canon, is a profound gash inthe plateau, some 225 feet deep, 550 feet wide andmany miles long. It has the appearance of a vol-canic rent in the earths crust, wedge-shaped, andterraced in bare dun rock down to the thread of astream that trickles through the notch. It is one ofthose inconsequent things which Arizona is fond ofdisplaying. For many miles you are bowled overa perfectly level plain, and without
. To California and back;. been prevailed upon to use their influence with thebeneficent powers for the space of a whole year inbehalf of their dusky worshipers. CANON DIABLO. This, the Devil Canon, is a profound gash inthe plateau, some 225 feet deep, 550 feet wide andmany miles long. It has the appearance of a vol-canic rent in the earths crust, wedge-shaped, andterraced in bare dun rock down to the thread of astream that trickles through the notch. It is one ofthose inconsequent things which Arizona is fond ofdisplaying. For many miles you are bowled overa perfectly level plain, and without any preparationwhatever, save only to slacken its pace, the train38. crosses the chasm by a spider-web bridge and thenspeeds again over the selfsame placid expanse. Inthe darkness of night one might unsuspectingly stepoff into its void, it is so entirely unlooked-for. Yet,remarkable as is the Canon Diablo, in comparisonwith those grand gorges hereafter to be mentionedit is worth little better than an idle glance throughthe car-window in passing. FLAGSTAFF. Gateway to most remarkable ancient ruins, to oneof the most practicable and delightful of our greatmountains, and to the famous (irand Canon of theColorado River, Flagstaff is itself piotorial in char-acter and rich in interest. It stands upon a clearingin an extensive pine forest that here covers the pla-teau and clothes the mountains nearly to their peaks;although the word park better describes this sunlit,grass-carpeted expanse of widely set towering pines,where cattle graze and the horseman may gallopat will. Couched at the foot of a noble mountainthat doffs its cap of snow for only a few weeks o
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