THE RED EOCK CANON. 



89 



\ 



V 

 r 



,1] 



:«? 



TV 



» 



) 



jaws tliroiigli winch tlie boiling waters came scetliing down, 

 the whole chasm was even then red-hot^ and ready to ^engulf 

 those whom JIoI^ CJmrch had doomed to destrnction. An 

 Indian trail, otc; 

 defile, and could 



'gro"wn 



through the 



and abandoned, led 



be traced, except in those j)l^c^s 



' travel in the bed of the stream. 



We heard that it was possible, though very diffi 

 comj)lctely through this canon, but we met no o 



done 



so 



attempt 



time obliged us 

 'selves. Its Icnsrt 



most reluctantly to 



miles 



Between the grey and red sandstone a stratum of snow- 



white gypsum 



ment 



the canon 



> 



and this position seems to be 



constant, not only here, but in Ar 

 Dr, Newberry ; for wherever 



zona, as mentioned by 

 the space between these two 

 strata was exposed, a layer of gj^sum was almost invariably 

 found lying between them. Dr. Le Conte received informa- 

 tion of a bed of alum, several feet thick, sonic eight miles 

 up in the canon, and obtained specimens of it in Trinidad. 



Soon after leaving Fort Lyon we were joined by Mr. Boggs, 



who drove up in a very nice buggy, drawn by a pair of beau- 



^ tiful bays, in the sleekest possible condition. This gentle- 



man most kindly remained with us several day^ 

 much information about the country. 



On the 29th, while riding ahead of the train 

 distance a herd of cattle grazing peacefully 



on a 



g 



slopin 



hill. Mx. Boggs and myself immediately pushed on to make 

 good our discovery by buying one of the oxen ; but after 

 making a circuit of ten miles, we could find neither hut nor 



herdsman nor anv sign of living being 



So 



drove some 



thirty oxen back into a raA^ne, at which place the 



