U. S. GEOLOnirAL SURVEY 



nULLETIX 707 PLATE XXXIX 



UPPER END OF THE ROYAL GORGE. 



The traveler on tlie rim of the canyon can climb down, if he has a steady head, to the .jagged 

 point shown on the left. Here he can look on the Hansing Bridge and the railroad trains as 

 they thunder through the canyon, waking the echoes from every angle of its mighty walls. 

 The rocks here arc much more highly jointed than they are lower down, and as a result the 

 canyon walls begin to liave an appreciable slope and to decrease in height. Photograph 

 furnished by the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad. 



