Show GRAND CANYON OF 1118 of nature extends ever aw miles along the colorado river varying in width from 10 to I 1 miles and in depth from to 8 feet rising ill a eellis t ter races often beautifully colored and marked an 1 frequently castellated and peaked the channel Is winding and sometimes very i arrow whose somber recesses the sun ray rarely visit it e broken by numerous nume ious falls of from 50 feet in descent and count less rapids wl Irl pools swirling eddies and ire lel stron s i herein lie boulders bowl ders are churned about like pebbles in a mill rice by the force current 1 e counley the orand canyon is situated in Is i rough one thinly settled and out of alie heated paths of travel and blut with the extreme biffi culty of entering it either from above or the perilous v abera 1 elow hive con to keep one of tl e gr adest w on ders of the corll a veritable ten in cognito V cirfus examination of the country and its formation 1 as o 0 ened that he old as in our t at of geology that the aruid canyon is the result of the erosion of water for many mil lions of ens and the attempt of some to i proximate the ige of tl e globe by calculations hissed upon the sup pose I 1 time necessary to wear down 7 or 8 feet of stone Is altogether untenable ind inconsistent with our present knowledge of its topography II 11 e vt ole region gives proof of once being a sei bottom by the water worn rocks deposits of salt fossils coral etc to be found every where it now has an altitude ottoo to feet the result f volcanic up heavens and it is to tills that we can loot for an explanation of tl e grand lans gigantic uplift li g atthe earths crust caged huge fissure to occur in the soft sand and slit through which the torrents of escaping water tore w ath irresistible fury gouging out the upper part of the existing channel la R corn short time this ints for its great edth from side to side and also explains tl a cleavage of the buskin mountains which ne 2 feet above tl e level of tl e s banks and could never lave leen tb work of erosion ine basaltic forma tion in many parts of tl e calyon the immense beds of known as ma which abo inde the ired forests and the great craters of extinct volcanoes in orl heni arizona all point to a time of volcano activity when those twin mons eis 0 the primal worl I 1 fire and watce coal tended for mastery ahe fist stratum of the canyon which extends down several h indred feet Is a sandstone next comes a shale or slaty formation and underneath lies a bed of limestone which in some places notably marble canyon seem to be much deeper thau at oil ers in tt is limestone silver is more or less to be found ext comes a stratum of salt 11 at near tie junction of tl e little colorado with tl e parent stream has beed mined for many years by the dupai moqui t and ld city indian bilow this rock silt comes the prime val granite hard as adamant and bearing gold in some places chese canons 1 ive a peculiar inter cst to the they having once been the 1 onie of prehistoric man many ruins of these iliff dweller are to be seen and sometimes a rare find rewards the patient explorer in the shape of unique pottery or curious copper implements hardened by an ad mixture of silicia now a lost art ho were these people and what was alie cause of their sudden extine tion an awful pestilence peti lence swept them into oblivion or the armed I 1 ordes of some fiercer tribe tore them their peaceful homes will always be one of the secrets of tl at strange land many of their habitations are almost perched on some dizzy cliff necessitating the use of rope 0 o tl em |