U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 



RULLETIX 707 PLATE XXXVII 



VIEW LOOKING BONN N INTO THE ROYAL GORGE. 



When one stands on the rim above the old station of Gorge and looks down into this great chasm 

 the railroad looks like a thread stretched beside the foaming stream. The pomt ot the rim 

 ordinarily reached by travelers is around the bend to the right. The lowland in the distance 

 is at Parkdale, and the gap in the range beyond is the mouth of the river canyon *,"»'. extenas 

 upstream to Cotopaxi. Photograph furnished by the Denver & Rio Grande Western 

 Railroad. 



