Memories of a Bear Hunter 



at about 30 degrees, the high peak on that side 

 being about 3,000 feet above the water level, there 

 being only sufficient room in the canon for a trail. 

 The upper twelve miles of the canon is enclosed by 

 solid walls of reddish granite almost vertical, with 

 a width of about 1,000 feet at top. At the lower 

 end of this part of the canon the height of the 

 walls is about 1,500 feet above the water level, as 

 attested by a railway survey up the western side. 

 In this part large masses of granite are found, 

 some of at least 300 cubic yards capacity, whose 

 angles are as sharp and as little worn as if dis- 

 rupted from the cliffs only yesterday. 



The caiion has one unusual feature; a tributary 

 of sufficient volume to be classed as a river ap- 

 proaches from the south, rushing through walls 

 of granite 100 feet wide at the top and 600 feet 

 deep, and leaps out from the wall of the canon at 

 least 300 feet above water level, the upper 200 

 feet being a beautiful cascade. The lower 100 

 feet passes over broken masses of granite lying at 

 an angle of about 40 degrees. This canon lies 

 out of the traveled route, and a laborious day's 

 work is needed to ascend and descend to the level 

 of the valley of this tributary. 



We could not tarry long at the Great Falls, and 

 took only a look at the second falls, about one- 



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