Identifier: landunitmynative00coxjrich (find matches)
Title: My native land : the United States: its wonders, its beauties, & its people; with descriptive notes, character sketches, folk lore, traditions, legends & history, for the amusement of the old & the instruction of the young
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Cox, James, 1851-1901
Subjects: United States -- Description and travel San Francisco (Calif.) -- Description and travel United States -- Social life and customs
Publisher: Philadelphia : Blair Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ection, the BrightAngel Creek, is absolutely dark, even at midday. It hasbeen described as a sentinel of the great canon, and fewpeople have dared attempt to pass through it. Fartherdown, the granite walls become less steep, and black£:ranite relieves the monotony of color. Here and there,at side caiions and sudden bends, the vast rear view of theo-orsre, with its sandstone cliffs, is brouo^ht into view.These are benched back several miles from the river, withhuoe mountains here and there interveninor. Above thedark sandstone there are flattened slopes of yellow, brown,red, green and white rock, rich in mineral. Through thesethe force of water for ages has cut narrow, trench-hkeAvaterfalls, most remarkable in appearance and attractivein their variety of coloring It is difficult to imagine an upright wall a thousand feethigh with red the predominating color, and with brighterhues near the summit. Benches of marble, with tufts ofgrass and bush, appear here and there, while occasionally
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A Fin de Siecle Pleasure Steamer. O • t IJSrTO THE BOWELS OF THE EARTH. 343 there is a little tract of faultless green. Above all this,there is something like two thousand feet of a lightercolored sandstone. This is beautified by spiral turrets anddomes, and wherever the slope is gradual enough, pine andcedar trees abound in large numbers. Behind all thisthere is the background of snow on the summit of themountains, and when an unexpected view can be obtainedfrom the river below, there is so great a profusion ofcoloring that the eye rebels, and a feeling not unlikeheadache is produced. Further wonders are revealed every few thousand feet.At the mouth of the next creek the coloring is different.The strata dips visibly, and the marble, which has hithertobeen exposed to view, is now beneath the surface. Thesandstone forms the river boundary, and rises at a sharpanole from the waters edo:e. The river itself is narrow inconsequence, but the great valley is even wider at the top.The walls

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