A GEOLOGISTS WDCTEK WALK 



to tell yon mare; some day yoa maj tee it, 

 like a Aadamj fine, from Cloud's Best. In 

 lii^ water, the stream oeetqaes all die bottom 

 oC the gaige, smismg and diafing in Various 

 poirer from wan to walL Bat the somid of the 

 grindii^ was lowas I entered jhe gprgp^Buredy 

 hopiiig to be aUe to pasB tlnoa^ its entire 

 length. By eoot effortB, along g^aaey, ie&woni 

 dopes, I reached the iqiper end in a little oivcr a 

 daqr, bat was eompffled to paastibe second nifijit. 

 in thegcBgeyandinthemoonfi^Iwroteyoa 

 this shaft peneil-ktter in n^ notebook: — 



The moon is looking down into the eafion, and 

 how mwdoiHiy thegiest loeks kindfe to her lie^! 

 Eveiy dooie, and faHnr, and awJuig Ikmb touched 

 bj ber i^ite nys, ^ows as M IJtJitwl with snow. 

 I am now oufy a wSe ham hit ng^if s camp; and 

 bsve been dimliing and ifcptfhiiig all day m this 

 dffieolt bat lusiiuctive fyp*- It w ww iimm m me 

 bottom of the main eafion, amoqg the mots of 

 Ooad's Rest It begpns at the flfednp bh^baan 

 where I camped Imt mg^it, and ends a few famidied 

 yndi above, m another bawn of flie ame kind. 

 The walls evayiriiere aie craggy and mertical, and 

 in some places they ovedean. It is onljr Cram twenty 

 to sixty feet wide, and not, tiioiii^ Uack and 

 bnAen eiim^^, the thin, aoohed mouth of some 

 mysterioas abyss; bat it was eroded, Cor in maay 

 piaees I saw its saGd, seamles floor. 



I am sitting on a big stone, agsia s t nhidi tihe 

 divides, and goes bEB^ng by in 

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