Glimpses of our national parks . en it wasunknown. Yet enough had been seen to foment rumor, Major Powell wrotein his report to the Smithsonian Institution, and many wonderfulstories have been told in the hunters cabin and prospectors were related of parties entering the gorge in boats and beingcarried down- with fearful velocity into whirlpools, where all wereoverwhelmed in the abyss of waters; others, of underground passagesfor the great river, into which boats had passed never to be seenagain. It was currently believed that the river was lost under therocks for several hundred
Glimpses of our national parks . en it wasunknown. Yet enough had been seen to foment rumor, Major Powell wrotein his report to the Smithsonian Institution, and many wonderfulstories have been told in the hunters cabin and prospectors were related of parties entering the gorge in boats and beingcarried down- with fearful velocity into whirlpools, where all wereoverwhelmed in the abyss of waters; others, of underground passagesfor the great river, into which boats had passed never to be seenagain. It was currently believed that the river was lost under therocks for several hundred miles. There were other accounts of greatfalls whose roaring music could be heard on distant mountainsummits. The passage, while it developed none of these reported dangers,was sufficiently perilous. Boats were repeatedly upset in the rapids,food was nearly exhausted, and the adventurers many times barelyescaped destruction. Four men who deserted the party, terrified,attempted to climb the walls, but were never heard from Photograph by H. T. Cowling Memorial to Major John Wesley Powell Erected by the Department qf THE InteriorIt stands on the rim at Sentinel Point 62 OUR NATIONAL PARKS. XIVTHE LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK Special Characteristics: A Group of Granite Mountains Rising from anIsland on the Atlantic Coast THE first national park in the East is an area of 8 square miles onISIoiint Desert Island, Me. It includes a group of low granitemountains abutting the sea, the only prominent elevation along theentire Atlantic coast of the United States. The Lafajette National Park is not only a varied and beautifulexhibit of seacoast, mountain, and eastern forest—it is a monumentto the public spirit of New England. These mountains, surroundedby thriving seashore resorts, had been in private ownership for cen-turies. The day was fast approaching when they would be utilizedfor summer homes. Foreseeing this, George B. Dorr, of Bar Harbor,Me., determined to acquire them as a gif
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