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THE GEAND CANOE DISTEICT. 
predominates sufficiently to form a central point in the picture. Still, the 
total effect is quite commensurate with that experienced in the choicest stand- 
points from which the canon may be viewed. The power and grandeur of 
the scene is quite beyond description. 
Leaving the Hidden Spring our next objective point is the Milk Spring, 
already spoken of as lying upon the route from De Motte Park to Point 
Sublime. Our base of operations, it will be perceived, is always some water- 
ing place, and such places are few and not often conveniently situated. The 
distance to the Milk Spring is about 14 miles by trail through the forest. 
Moving np the large ravine a distance of about 4 miles from the Hidden 
Spring, we at length leave it upon its southern bank. The waj^ is delight- 
ful. It lies through a succession of little parks, and along the courses of 
the ravines, with open forest on either hand. The drainage channels here 
run to the southwest, heading near De Motte Park, and our route crosses 
them. None of them present any notable obstacles to travel, for their banks 
are rarely precipitous or even steep. On the way we come once more near 
the brink of the Shinumo Amphitheater, for a ravine runs past a large alcove 
near the head of it, and by ascending the bank it breaks upon the view with 
a suddenness which is quite startling The traveler might pass this point 
many times without suspecting his proximity to such stupendous scenery, 
and unless duly advised would suppose himself far away from the brink in 
the depths of the forest. 
From the Milk Spring we may at our pleasure revisit Point Sublime. 
The distance is only ten or eleven miles by an easy trail, which we shall 
follow here far enough only to note another grand amphitheater — or rather 
a pair of them. The trail comes suddenly upon the brink about five miles 
fi'om the spring. One of the tributaries of the Colorado between Shiva’s 
Temple and Point Sublime forks about three miles from the river, and each 
fork is in the bed of a mighty basin, the two being separated by a long and 
singularly slender promontory, which is in reality a large cloister butte. 
We may regard the two basins either as two or as branches of a single 
amphitheater. Taking the latter view of the arrangement we have named 
the whole as the 
