Hunting at High Altitudes 



Niagara is pre-eminent in grandeur, but its great 

 volume and evidence of power and force have 

 always inspired me with a feeling of fear and 

 dread. The falls of the Missouri are next in 

 grandeur, while these falls are a combination of 

 the grand and beautiful, with great volume in times 

 of high water and a clear width of about 150 feet 

 and 3 60 feet single leap. Professor Hayden, who 

 first measured their height, gives it as 396 feet. 

 The canon below these falls is not less notable than 

 the falls that give it cause. At the water level its 

 width is about 250 feet; from above, the stream 

 appears like a silvery thread. From the water's 

 edge the sides of the canon slope back at an angle 

 of 35 degrees to 45 degrees and to a height of 

 about 150 feet. 27 To the feeling called forth by 

 the grandeur of these falls is added that of admir- 

 ation for the beautiful and varied colorings given 

 out by their geological formations. 28 



I have seen all the many canons of the Con- 

 tinental Divide above the Union Pacific Railroad. 

 None, however, compares in everything that makes 

 these wonders of nature notable and grand, with 

 the canon of the Clark's Fork of the Yellowstone, 

 just above the debouchment of that stream from 

 the mountains. Its length is about eighteen miles. 

 The lower six miles has sides sloping on the east 



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