. In & around the Grand Canyon; the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River in Arizona . rprise Outlook. Here, afterthe first impression—which is always of the Can-yons vastness—has somewhat subsided, the eyeinstinctively seeks the important point on the op-posite side, which has already been referred to asDutton Point. This is the Point Sublime ofour stage ride; the great promontory that risesover half a thousand feet above every other canyonpoint within our ken, as, forty miles away, we ap-proach the great gorge. It is the extreme easternend of Powell Plateau. Almost immediately opposite Bass Cam
. In & around the Grand Canyon; the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River in Arizona . rprise Outlook. Here, afterthe first impression—which is always of the Can-yons vastness—has somewhat subsided, the eyeinstinctively seeks the important point on the op-posite side, which has already been referred to asDutton Point. This is the Point Sublime ofour stage ride; the great promontory that risesover half a thousand feet above every other canyonpoint within our ken, as, forty miles away, we ap-proach the great gorge. It is the extreme easternend of Powell Plateau. Almost immediately opposite Bass Camp, slightlyto the left, and directly in the heart of the Canyon,is Mount Observation, a solitary, lone, rocky giantof cross-bedded sandstone, topped with a small resi-due of cherty limestone. From where we stand at 94 IN AND AROUND niofht we can look out and see the moon shed itssilver brilliancy over the massive white walls, whichgained the mountain its name from the Indians,— Hue-tha-wa-li,— White Mountain. It is one ofthe most impressive specimens of the result of the. Eastern End of Mount Orskrvation. erosive and disintegrating^ processes of nature tobe seen in this region. Its talus has more slopethan the generality of the cliffs, and this makes theapproach to it fairly easy. It seems as if you mightthrow a stone to it from where we stand on therim of the Canyon, and it is one of the first lessonsin distance that many a tourist will eventually take,to find out how far away it really is. The next features that attract our attention are THE GRAND CANYON 95 the three central, interior plateaux, which, twothousand feet below the rim, thrust their noses farout from the south wall until they seem to be im-mediately over the Inner Gorge, where the ColoradoRiver flows in sullen majesty through the plateau which connects the south wall withthese interior plateaux is named Le Conte are all in the red sandstone. The upperstratum—the deep chocolate
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