ROYAL GORGE 



In the Grand Canon of the Arkansas River. In canons like 

 this, their walls rising almost vertically from one thousand to 

 fifteen hundred feet, few birds are to be seen. Occasion- 

 ally a dove will fly from one side of the gorge to the other 

 before the scurrying train. From below a magpie or a Clark's 

 crow may sometimes be seen flying overhead across the fearful 

 chasm from one wall to the other, turning its head at intervals 

 as if to inspect and question the spectator over a thousand feet 

 below. 



