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end near Neal Spring, where it is only a little over a mile from east to 

 west. The trail leads to a point near its southern extremity and for 

 the most part follows a dry water course situated some distance from 

 the edge of the plateau. Occasionally we approach near the margin 

 and obtain a wonderful view out over the canyon of the Colorado and 

 the deserts which lie to the south of it. At the end of the trail we 

 come suddenly to the rim of the canyon and can descend perhaps fifty 

 feet along some rock ledges to a place where water has collected in two 

 small pools from springs seeping through the rock. The ledge is pro- 



FlG. 29. — Wotan's Throne, from Cape Roj^al, Grand Canyon, Arizona. 



tected by an overhang of limestone and would provide shelter in even 

 the worst of storms. 



With this camp site, known as Cliff Spring, as a base, two of the 

 projecting points of the Valhalla plateau can be visited. The first, 

 known as Cape Final, is its easternmost point and lies about four miles 

 northeast of Cliff Spring. Cape Final is directly opposite the Painted 

 Desert and about eighteen hundred feet above it. This enables us to 

 look out over the surface of the desert and to see the ranges of cliffs 

 which bound it upon the north and east at a distance of about sixty or 

 seventy miles. The canyon, as usual, is directly at our feet but from 



