. General Information Regarding the National Monuments . s in every direction. Many of the rocks are soprecipitous that they can not be scaled. A series of caves, openingone into the other, lie under each of the groups of rock. These cavesvary greatly in size, one in particular, known as the Banquet Hall,being about 100 feet square with a ceiling 30 feet high. The cavesare entered through narrow canyons with perpendicular rock wallsand overhanging bowlders. One huge stone, called the Temple Rock,is almost cubical in form. It stands alone in the bottom of thecanyon and its walls rise perpendicu
. General Information Regarding the National Monuments . s in every direction. Many of the rocks are soprecipitous that they can not be scaled. A series of caves, openingone into the other, lie under each of the groups of rock. These cavesvary greatly in size, one in particular, known as the Banquet Hall,being about 100 feet square with a ceiling 30 feet high. The cavesare entered through narrow canyons with perpendicular rock wallsand overhanging bowlders. One huge stone, called the Temple Rock,is almost cubical in form. It stands alone in the bottom of thecanyon and its walls rise perpendicularly to a height of over 200feet. There are also several specimens of balancing rocks in eachof the groups. The pinnacles, domes, caves, and subterranean pas-sages of the monument are awe-inspiring on close inspection, and arewell worth a visit by tourists and lovers of nature in its primitivestate. There are two groups of the so-called Pinnacles Rocks, knownlocally as the Big Pinnacles and the Little Pinnacles. The general 43 G**M MWW/W»>m/ CorWZ. Jk \ , ^ttw<*er83 4* \* NAV AJO ^ iO o* WW// .^
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