. A complete geography. oks out over the canyon he sees nothing but towers,pinnacles, many-colored layers of rock, and apparently bottomlessdepths. When he finally takes a position from which the thread-like stream below can be spied in the abyss, it seems almost impos-sible that so little water could have wrought such mighty havoc. The difficult path which leads to the bottom is seven miles long,and the trip clown and back is a full days journey; but withoutmaking it, one fails to appreciate fully the marvellous carving. Fig. 168. An eruption of one of the geysers of the Yellow-stone Park. TH
. A complete geography. oks out over the canyon he sees nothing but towers,pinnacles, many-colored layers of rock, and apparently bottomlessdepths. When he finally takes a position from which the thread-like stream below can be spied in the abyss, it seems almost impos-sible that so little water could have wrought such mighty havoc. The difficult path which leads to the bottom is seven miles long,and the trip clown and back is a full days journey; but withoutmaking it, one fails to appreciate fully the marvellous carving. Fig. 168. An eruption of one of the geysers of the Yellow-stone Park. THE WESTEBN STATES 169 sculpturing, and coloring. At the bottom the scene is entirelychanged; and, as one looks upward to see himself shut in by wallswhich seem to extend to the very heavens, his own littleness andthe immensity of the work of Nature are wonderfully impressedupon him. For three lumdred miles the river flows at the bottom of this deeplycut canyon, and hence serves as a very complete barrier to travellers. A. Fig. view in the Colorado Canyon. person living on one side, where he could look across to the other side,ten miles away, would need to travel hundreds of iniles to reach thatside; for there are no railways or roads leading across. Yosemite Valley. — This wonderful valley, on the western slope of theSierra Nevada Mountains, in California, presents very different vieAvsfrom those already described. Some of the most magnificent are formedby the Yosemite Eiver, which pours over a precipice into the valleybelow. In one mighty leap the water descends loOO feet, forming the 170 NORTH AMERICA Yosemite Falls, which are famed the world over. Below this are somecascades, then another fall of 400 feet. Near the fall are seen the giant trees of the world, the largest ofwhich is 31 feet in diameter. The Cities Cities in the Interior. — Large inland cities in the Western Statesare very few in number, the greatest being Denver, the capital ofColorado. This city is l
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