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Title: Travels in Europe and America
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Bolton, Charles E(dward), 1841-1901. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, T. Y. Crowell & co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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uffs of a wild pine-cladgorge, over rocks and ledges, until gathering all itsstrength it fearlessly plunges from the brink of theGreat Falls into the solitude of the awful canon300 feet below. Amazement is in every face.Make sure of your footing, cling to the railing, oryour head will grow dizzy. Having recovered from the shock of its recklessplunge, it finds an outlet through a narrow throatat the foot of the pool and rushes madly on throughthe rapids, triumphant in its marvelous progress. Forgetting the rivers fearful plunge we easilyimagine the stream has become a winding ribbon ofemerald satin laid along the depth of the GrandGallon and finally lost to view. What grouping oflofty crags and towering rocks ! Further down another view reveals a scene ofenchanting splendor. Far below us rise countlesspinnacles and towers and thrones that mock themasonry of man. Some of the walls are vertical,and some slope like Gothic arches, supported bymagnificent flying buttresses. These sculptured
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TRAVELS, 361 rocks have been shaped by storm and torrent, bywind and frost till nature herself is satiated.Eaf^les and fish-hawks have built their nests onlofty pinnacles, and with interest you watch theking of birds dart for food into the swift torrentbelow. The whole gorge is aflame with color asthough rainbows were hung along the walls. For long eras the Hot Springs have painted thisGrand Canon. Natures deposit of lime is ofdazzling whiteness, sulphur has given its clearestyellow, the oxidation of iron ts deepest tints ofred shading into scarlet and orange, while mossesand tall pines have added vivid green. Such aroyal display of colors is seen elsewhere only in thesunsets. We turn to see the Great Falls, grand in its lifeand action. The foaming cauldron below is flankedby painted cliffs 800 feet high. The floods of cool sea-green water break intosheets of glistening foam and sparkling drops asthey descend. But they rise again in fountains ofspray and clouds of mist which nourish o

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