Show MARBLE CANYON A river whose bed la three thousand teet below alio plain we took for the rado river at lees ferry so named from john D lee one of the destroy ing angels executed bythe by the united states for complicity in the mountain bleadow massacre here we saw the most remarkable river in the world i writes a cor st in the indiana olis sentinel imagine yourself upon ai a i broad white plain you can hear a dull distant roar you can see nothing stave the mountains and the waving grass you go on md the noise gets g ets more dis until you can hear it apparently beneath your feet all at once you see a few feet from you a fissure which at first glance looks to be scarcely twenty feet wide you cautiously crawl up and look down down for three thousand feet there is the river a torrent surging against its perpendicular marble sides you wonder having walked to within fifty fe ct of that chasm without seeing it you look at it flowing and trace its course directly towards those mountains yet they do not stop it it goes through them separating the from the san francisco range and the small dividing lino looks like the cut of a from the top to the bottom here i where the canyon reaches its depth bein a little over a mile from the too to the water |