TIME AND CHANGE 



War," one sees on the top, where once there must 

 have been a huge wall of rock, a long level area of 

 red soil that suggests a garden, the more so because 

 it is regularly divided up into sections by straight 

 lines of huge stone placed as if by the hands of 



man. 



One's sense of the depths of the canon is so great 

 that it almost makes one dizzy to see the little birds 

 fly out over it, or plunge down into it. One seems 

 to fear that they too will get dizzy and fall to the 

 bottom. We watched a line of tourists on mules 

 creeping along the trail across the inner plateau, 

 and the unaided eye had trouble to hold them; they 

 looked like little red ants. The eye has more dif- 

 jSculty in estimating sizes and distances beneath 

 it than when they are above or on a level with it, 

 because it is so much less familiar with depth than 

 with height or lateral dimensions. 



Another remarkable and unexpected feature of 

 the canon is its look of ordered strength. Nearly 

 all the lines are lines of greatest strength. 

 The prevailing profile line everywhere 

 is that shown herewith. The upright 

 lines represent lines of cyclopean ma- 

 sonry, and the slant is the talus that 

 connects them, covered with a short, 

 sage-colored growth of some kind, and as soft to 

 the eye as the turf of our fields. 

 The simple, strong structural lines assert them- 



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