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night; land of isolated buttes that frown in lofty silence on the 

 lower world like monuments belonging to some cemetery of giants; 

 land of mesas, plateaus, pinnacles, and peaks. 



The massive red-and-yellow buttes at Green River, Wyoming, 

 are familiar to passengers on the Union Pacific Railway, and have 



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Fig. 4. — "Garden of the Gods." 



been beautifully rendered on canvas by Thomas Moran. Visitors 

 to Colorado Springs will not forget the superb " Steeple ' ; and 

 " Cathedral " rocks in the Garden of the Gods (Fig. 4), whose gor- 

 geous vermilion is thrust vertically into the Colorado blue; and 

 many there are who have seen the wonders of the Yellowstone and 

 the Yosemite. In all these places there are architectural forms that 

 have justly received the admiring tribute of thousands, yet in more 

 remote regions are forms quite as remarkable that have seldom been 

 seen by the eyes of white men. 



"While riding northward across the Navajo Indian Reservation 

 from Fort Defiance, I well remember seeing, at a distance of a mile or 

 so, which may have " lent enchantment to the view," an immense 

 arch in red sandstone, and, more interesting still, one of the most 

 perfect suggestions of a building I have ever seen. To go closer at 

 the time was not practicable, nor even to stop for a more deliberate 

 study, but they were in sight from the slow-moving cavalcade for a 



