The national parks portfolio . Copyright by Fred Harvey When Clouds and Canyon Meet and Merge MASTERPIECE OF EROSION ilHE rain falling in the plowed field forms rivnlets in the furrows. The T rivulets unite in a muddy torrent in the roadside gutter. With suc-ceeding showers the gutter wears an ever-deepening channel in thel| soft soil. With the passing season the gutter becomes a and there, in places, its banks undermine and fall in. Here and there therivulets from the field wear tiny tributary gullies. Between the breaks in thebanks and the tributaries irregular masses of earth rem
The national parks portfolio . Copyright by Fred Harvey When Clouds and Canyon Meet and Merge MASTERPIECE OF EROSION ilHE rain falling in the plowed field forms rivnlets in the furrows. The T rivulets unite in a muddy torrent in the roadside gutter. With suc-ceeding showers the gutter wears an ever-deepening channel in thel| soft soil. With the passing season the gutter becomes a and there, in places, its banks undermine and fall in. Here and there therivulets from the field wear tiny tributary gullies. Between the breaks in thebanks and the tributaries irregular masses of earth remain standing, sometimesresembling mimic cliffs, sometimes washed and worn into mimic peaks and spires. Such roadside erosion is familiar to us all. A hundred times we have idlynoted the fantastic water-carved walls and minaretted slopes of these seldom, perhaps, have we realized that the muddy roadside ditch andthe world-famous Grand Canyon of the Colorado are, from natures stand-point, identical; that they differ
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