THE DIVINE ABYSS 



lecture of the world. Many of the vast carved and 

 ornamental masses which diversify the canon have 

 been fitly named temples, as Shiva's Temple, a mile 

 high, carved out of the red Carboniferous limestone, 

 and remarkably symmetrical in its outlines. Near 

 it is the Temple of Isis, the Temple of Osiris, the 

 Buddha Temple, the Horus Temple, and the Pyra- 

 mid of Cheops. Farther to the east is the Diva Tem- 

 ple, the Brahma Temple, the Temple of Zoroaster, 

 and the Tomb of Odin. Indeed, everywhere are 

 there suggestions of temples and tombs, pagodas and 

 pyramids, on a scale that no work of human hands 

 can rival. "The grandest objects," says Major Dut- 

 ton,*' are merged in a congregation of others equally 

 grand." With the wealth of form goes a wealth of 

 color. Never, I venture to say, were reds and browns 

 and grays and vermilions more appealing to the eye 

 than they are as they softly glow in this great canon. 

 The color-scheme runs from the dark, sombre hue 

 of the gneiss at the bottom, up through the yellow- 

 ish brown of the Cambrian layers, and on up through 

 seven or eight broad bands of varying tints of red 

 and vermilion, to the broad yellowish-gray at the 

 top. 



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The north side of the canon has been much more 

 deeply and elaborately carved than the south side; 

 most of the great architectural features are on the 

 north side — the huge temples and fortresses and 



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