Show A alver choso whoso bed IB three thousand feet abelow the plain we took up our march for the colo raab river at lees ferry so named from john D lee one of the destroying angels executed by the united tates for complicity in the mountain meadow massacre here we saw the most remarkable river in the world writes a correspond tt in olis sentinel imagine yourself upon a broad white plain you can hear a dull distant roar you can see nothing save the mountains and the waving grass you go on and the noise gets 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 r a white torrent surging against its perpendicular marble sides you wonder having walked to within fifty acci of that chasm without seeing it you look at it flowing and trace its i course directly towards those mountains yet they do not stop it it goes through them separating the from alie san francisco range and the small di viding line looks like the cut of a knife from the top to the bottom here is where the canyon reaches its greatest depth being a little over a mile from the too to the |