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suggestions, and its opulence of color effects —a 
chasm nearly a mile deep and from ten to twenty 
miles wide, in which Niagara would be only as a 
picture upon your walls, in which the Pyramids, 
seen from the rim, would appear only like large 
tents, in which the largest building upon the earth 
would dwindle to insignificant proportions. There 
are amphitheatres and mighty aisles eight miles 
long and three or four miles wide and three or four 
thousand feet deep. There are room-like spaces eight 
hundred feet high; there are well-defined alcoves 
with openings a mile wide; there are niches six hun- 
dred feet high overhung by arched lintels; there are 
pinnacles and rude statues from one hundred to two 
hundred feet high. Here I am running at once into 
allusions to the architectural features and sugges- 
tions of the cafion, which must play a prominent 
part in all faithful attempts to describe it. There 
are huge, truncated towers, vast, horizontal mould- 
ings; there is the semblance of balustrades on the 
summit of a noble facade. In one of the immense 
halls we saw, on an elevated platform, the outlines 
of three enormous chairs, fifty feet or more high, 
and behind and above them the suggestion of three 
more chairs in partial ruin. Indeed, there is such 
an opulence of architectural forms in this divine 
abyss as one has never before dreamed of see- 
ing wrought by the blind forces of nature. These 
forces have here foreshadowed all the noblest archi- 
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