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thing uncanny about them. In eastern Utah, some miles from the 

 point where White River joins the Green, and close by the former 

 stream, lies a whole group of natural edifices, to which General 

 Hughes applied the name of Goblin City. Remote and lonely at 

 the time of our visit, in the midst of a hostile country, the numerous 

 small houselike buttes, resting like a real town in the bottom of the 

 rugged, desolate gorge, seemed about to pour out an angry host, to 

 stop our further entrance into their weird and forbidding land. The 

 broken cliffs through which we had descended to the " City " pre- 

 sented detached rocks here and there looking like petrified guards- 

 men who might only be revived by the Prince's kissing the Sleeping 

 Beauty, somewhere perhaps to be found in this goblin realm. 



Gunnison's Butte, on Green River, not far from the point where 

 the brave captain crossed the stream in 1853, is a fine example of 

 what may be called the cathedral type (Fig. 9). Rising supreme 

 in colossal dignity twenty-seven hundred 

 feet above the river bank, in its tender 

 color, in its splendid lines, it is 

 without a rival. On its southwest- 

 ern part, toward the 

 base, the numerous ^ 



abutments and little 

 slopes crowning them 

 are of a pure delicate 

 blue, rivaling the tint 

 of a summer sky. Ex- 

 tending far to west- 

 ward, these Azure 

 Cliffs, which begin 

 with Gunnison's 

 Butte, present one of 

 the most remarkable 

 and beautiful touches 

 of color the rocks have 

 ever unfolded. Near 

 the mouth of the San 

 Rafael, Dellenbaugh's 

 Butte (Fig. 10) exhib- 

 its a different type, lik- 

 ened by the explorers of the region to an art gallery, because of its 

 broad roof and simplicity of outline. Four hundred feet high, its 

 chocolate-brown mass rests beside Green River, silent, serene, as if 

 waiting for the jury to finish arranging the exhibit and open the 

 doors to the public. 



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Fig. 9. 



-Gunnison's Butte ; 2,700 feet above river. 



