What to see in America . utte, which rises 4000 feet above thestream. It is a stupendous vertical uplift of many-coloredrock that has never been ascended. The valley contractsfarther up to a canyon with walls less than a score of feet 396 What to See in America apart, and 1500 feet deep. There is an extravagant playof color throughout the region. Utah has four natural bridges in the deserts of the south-eastern part of the state that are unexcelled in impressivenessand in wildness of setting. Three of these are not far apart,and the largest of the three has a span of two hundred andsixty feet
What to see in America . utte, which rises 4000 feet above thestream. It is a stupendous vertical uplift of many-coloredrock that has never been ascended. The valley contractsfarther up to a canyon with walls less than a score of feet 396 What to See in America apart, and 1500 feet deep. There is an extravagant playof color throughout the region. Utah has four natural bridges in the deserts of the south-eastern part of the state that are unexcelled in impressivenessand in wildness of setting. Three of these are not far apart,and the largest of the three has a span of two hundred andsixty feet and a height of one hundred and fifty-seven the borders of Arizona, sixty-five miles to the southwest, isRainbow Natural Bridge, the largest in the world, with aspan of two hundred and seventy-nine feet and a height ofthree hundred and nine. Not until 1909 was it seen by whitemen. The Navajos hold it in great reverence, and beforethey will pass under this rosy-hued tremendous arch ofstone they say a prayer to Pikes Peak, the Monument of the Continent XLIV Colorado The Backbone of the Continent is the Rocky Mountains,which are also aptly called the Roof of America. Theirmain range, known as the Continental Divide, parts thewaters that flow toward the Atlantic from those that flowtoward the Pacific. The name Rockies fairly describes themountains, for enormous crags and bold peaks of bare rockare omnipresent. The altitudes are too high and the rain-fall of the region is too light to encourage vegetation, whichmight hold the disintegrating rock material and clothe theheights with soil and greenery. Deep chasms have beenworn by the streams, and these channels are seldom borderedby alluvial intervales. Colorado is preeminently the Rocky Mountain State. Ithas fully thirty-five peaks that are over 14,000 feet high, 397 398 What to See in America and more than one hundred others that exceed 13,000 peak that overtops all the rest is Mt. Elbert, a few milessouthwest
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