Show GRAND CANYON extracts from report to U S geological dept of grandest scenery m world wherever we reach the grand canyon in the kaibab it bursts upon the ision in a moment seldom is any earning given eliat we arc near the brink at tho eap it is quite there we aro notified that we arc near it a day before we reach it As the final march to that portion of alie chasm is made the scene gradually dc growing by insensible degrees more grand until at last we stand upon alio brink of the inner gorge where all is before us in the kaibab the forest reaches to the edges of alie cliff and the pine trees shed their cones into tho fathomless depths below if the approach is made at random with no idea of reaching any particular point by a cnown route the probabilities are that it is first sen s en from the nm of one of alio vast amphitheaters which set back from alio main chasm far into tho mass of the plateau it is such a point to which the reader lias been continued on ath grand canyon continued from ast 1st page brought in the preceding of course tharo are degrees in the magnitude and power of the pictures presented but alio smallest and least powerful is tremendous and too great for comprehension the of the amphitheaters fir surpass ca in grandeur and nobility anything else of the kind in any other region but it is meio byplay by play in comparison the panorama displayed in the heart af the canon the supreme views are to be obtained at the extremities of the long promontories which ut out between thebe recesses far into the gulf towards lucli a point we now direct our steps the one we have chosen is on the whole the most commanding in the kaibab front though arc several others might bo regarded as er nearly equal to it or as even moio imposing in somo wo named it point sublime the route 13 of the same character as that wo have already traversed open pine forest with smooth and rolling ground alie distance aiom the point where wo first touched the inn of the theater is about five miles nothing is been of alio chasm until about a mile from alie end wo como moio upon alio brink reaching the verge alio packs are cast oft and sitting upon the edge we contemplate alie moat and umpiring spectacle in the world to be J |