Show WONDERFUL GRAND CANYON more impressive than niagara bibro than the alp there are many wonders within the limits of the yellowstone park but of them all there is nothing so wonderful as alie grand canyon of the yellowstone river says alie philadelphia press one can at no season of alie year view this tremendous gorge without a sense of awe at the work oi alie titanic elemental forces which have hollowed it out of the enduring granite of the hills there is an impression of unspeakable solemnity conveyed by this giant spectacle and no american looks upon it without a sense of absolute humility and insignificance alie thought the meaning the expression of the grand canyon is something the human mind is unable at first to grasp there is no coup aceil possible there there is no definite thought resultant upon any single glance at the grand canyon no matter comprehensive or how perspective that may be the grand canyon refuses to be compassed at a glance it demands faithful patient humble study more impressive than niagara more mighty than the sea more beautiful than alie alps it offers to the visitor an enigma capable of solution only after long and reverent acquaintance to attempt to see alie grand canyon in an hour or a day is ridiculous to attempt to see it as one of a crowd is a wrong to ones best self to study it hour after hour to drink in with unabated zest the same view time after time day after day to pee the mountain lights and shades give a thousand different expressions to alie face of nature and to learn some new feature even at alie last visit to ome familiar point of view these are the things which make the visitor and observer at first curious then wondering and then we may almost say worshipful not even alie most blase world trotter has ever been heard to express disappointment with the grand canyon ot the yellowstone and it is singular LO notice the universally respectful and subdued comment upon it by even the most casual and flippant visitor there have been very few persona who have seen the canyon in winter time says a recent visitor and it may be well believed we made alie most of our rare privilege it was risky work approaching the great walls on the skis but we managed to get to different points commanding full view of alie main portion of the canyon and of both the great falls and the upper falls of the yellowstone the great falls were encased incased in vast white columns of ice on each side and from them arose a noble aillar of dense white vapor never again shall we see a more sight than that thus presented to us on that clear winter morning |