. The Pacific coast scenic tour, from southern California to Alaska, the Canadian Pacific railway, Yellowstone Park and the Grand Cañon. ^ one of them, The rocks h-e-a-p high; thewater go h-oo-woogh, h-oo-woogh; water-pony [boat]h-e-a-p buck; water catch em ; no TUK (iKANl) tANt THE GRAND CANON OF THE COLORADO. 297 I cannot resist the temptation to quote two more briefpassages from Major Powells pages, describing portionsof the Marble and Grand Caiions. The walls of theCanon, twenty-five hundred feet high, are of marble, ofmany beautiful colors, and often polished below by thewaves, or f
. The Pacific coast scenic tour, from southern California to Alaska, the Canadian Pacific railway, Yellowstone Park and the Grand Cañon. ^ one of them, The rocks h-e-a-p high; thewater go h-oo-woogh, h-oo-woogh; water-pony [boat]h-e-a-p buck; water catch em ; no TUK (iKANl) tANt THE GRAND CANON OF THE COLORADO. 297 I cannot resist the temptation to quote two more briefpassages from Major Powells pages, describing portionsof the Marble and Grand Caiions. The walls of theCanon, twenty-five hundred feet high, are of marble, ofmany beautiful colors, and often polished below by thewaves, or far up the sides, where showers have washedthe sands over the cliffs. At one place I have a walk,for more than a mile, on a marble pavement, all polishedand fretted with strange devices and embossed in athousand fantastic patterns. Through a cleft in the wallthe sun shines on this pavement, which gleams in irides-cent beauty. In other regions the rocks, when notcovered with soil, or more vigorous vegetation, are atleast lichened, or stained, and the rocks themselves areof sombre hue, but in this region they are naked, andmany of them brightly colored, as if painted by artist-gods ; not stained and daubed with inharmonious hues,but beautiful as flowers and gorge
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