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Title: Marvels of the new West : a vivid portrayal of the stupendous marvels in the vast wonderland west of the Missouri River : comprising marvels of nature, marvels of race, marvels of enterprise, marvels of mining, marvels of stock-raising, and marvels of agriculture, graphically and truthfully described
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Thayer, William Makepeace, 1820-1898
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Publisher: Norwich, Conn. : Henry Bill Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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emerges from the echo of Trias-sic and Permian age. Here for an instant the river is in compara-tively an open country. But within a mile or two it begins to sinkanother chasm in the carboniferous rocks, and in the course of sixty-five miles the depth steadily increases until it becomes about thirty-five hundred to four thousand feet. This is the Marble Canon. Itis a gorge of very simple form, and its width is about twice as greatas its depth. Its course is at first southwest, but gradually deflectsto the southward. Its lower end is arbitrarily fixed at the junctionof the Little Colorado or Colorado Chiquito, a stream coming in fromthe southeast and entering by a lateral chasm as deep as the maingorge itself. Below the junction the river turns westward, the wallsgrow rapidly higher, the great chasm widens out to six or eight timesits width in the Marble Canon, and the valley of the river is filledwith buttes as large as mountains and wonderfully sculptured. Here MARVELS OF NATURE. 45
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MARBLE CANON. 46 MARVELS OF THE NEW WEST. the river enters the Kaibab, and its walls soon attain the altitude ofsix thousand feet. Kanab Canon is a division of the Grand Canon, possessing many at-tractions in common with Marble Canon. The cut shows that its mas-sive and towering walls must excite the wonder of men. Everythingabout it is grand on a large scale. As an adjunct to the GrandCanon, it is in complete harmony with its transcendent glories. Thecontemplation is inspiring and elevating. A man is better for takingin the sublime view. It awakens thoughts of the Great Architect,whose handiwork is so wonderful. fli < i ^ 1 ^r^r I ^ - :^ ^ i WW^^i^t^^^^^^- ^^^:^;ti. l:^^^ ^^ 1 ^■^.^^3 LAND OF THE STANDING ROCKS. Captain Button writes: A spectacle of this kind is most impres-sive to the geologist. It brings into one view the co-ordinatedresults of observations made laboriously by months of travel andinspection in a very broad and rugged field. The great distancesthrough which the

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