. Some strange corners of our country; the wonderland of the Southwest . r thi-ead. The Yosemite andthe Yellowstone, wonderful as they are in their precipices,—and the world outside of America cannot match those won-dious valleys,—are babies beside this peerless gorge. The walls of the Grand Canon are in most places not per-pendicular; but seen from in front they all appear to are mostly of sandstone, but in places of marble, andagain of limestone, and yet again of volcanic rock; generally^terraced in a manner entirely peculiar to the southwest,and cleft into innumerable buttes, which
. Some strange corners of our country; the wonderland of the Southwest . r thi-ead. The Yosemite andthe Yellowstone, wonderful as they are in their precipices,—and the world outside of America cannot match those won-dious valleys,—are babies beside this peerless gorge. The walls of the Grand Canon are in most places not per-pendicular; but seen from in front they all appear to are mostly of sandstone, but in places of marble, andagain of limestone, and yet again of volcanic rock; generally^terraced in a manner entirely peculiar to the southwest,and cleft into innumerable buttes, which seem towers andcastles, but are infinitely more vast and more noble than thehand of man will ever rear. And when the ineffable sun-shine of that arid but enchanted land falls upon then* won-drous domes and battlements with a glow which seems notof this world, the sight is such a revelation that I have seenstrong men sit down and weep in speechless awe. There are no great falls in the Grand Canon; but manybeautiful and lofty ones in the unnumbered hundreds of side-. S%#fc HEAD OF THE GRAND CANON OF THE COLORADO. THE GRANDEST GORGE IN THE WORLD. 13 canons which en-ter the great had ahnost said Httle canons/for so they seemin the presenceof theii* giantmother; bnt inreality, ahnostany one of themvvonld shame anycanon is nosnch thing asdescribing theGrand Canon,and I dare nottry. But I shallborrow a fewwords from theman who hascome nearer giv-ing in words aliint of the canonthan has any oneelse — CharlesDudley has said:
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