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Show Point, where the view so impressed im-pressed him that he included the following description in his field notes: "Immediately at Uie east and south of the last corner set, the surface breaks off almost perpendicularly perpen-dicularly to a depth of several hundred hun-dred feet seem, indeed, as though the botom had dropped out and left rocks standing in all shapes an forms as lone sentinels over the grotesque and picturesque scene. There are thousands of red, white, purple and vermillion colored rocks, of all sizes, resembling sentinels on the walls of castles; monks and priests with theii robes, attendants, cathedrals anc congregations. There are deer, caverns and rooms resembling ruins of prisons, castles, churches with their guarded walls, battle ments, spires and steeples, niche and recesses, presenting the wild est and most wonderful scent that the eye of man ever beheld 1 in fact it is one of the wonder: of the world." Early Description Of Bryce Canyon Comes To Light ZION NATIONAL PARK, ' Utah, Oct. 28 The earliest known description of Bryce canyon, written writ-ten in 1S76, was unearthed re-. re-. cently from the files of the Public . Survey office at' Salt Lake City by Mr. G. D. D. Kirkpatrick, dis-5 dis-5 trict cadastral engineer, and sent by him to Superintendent P. P. Patraw, of the National Park ser-5 ser-5 vice. The description was written 2 by T. C. Bailey, U. S. deputy . surveyor, on November 18, 1876 r a year after the first settlement of the region was made by Ebe-nezer Ebe-nezer Bryce. Mr. Bailey was sur-l sur-l veying a guide meridian and came - to the point now known as Sunset |