THE DIVINE ABYSS 
tecture of the world. Many of the vast carved and 
ornamental masses which diversify the cafion have 
been fitly named temples, as Shiva’s Temple, a mile 
high, carved out of the red Carboniferous limestone, 
and remarkably symmetrical in its outlines. Near 
it is the Temple of Isis, the Temple of Osiris, the 
Buddha Temple, the Horus Temple, and the Pyra- 
mid of Cheops. Farther to the east is the Diva Tem- 
ple, the Brahma Temple, the Temple of Zoroaster, 
and the Tomb of Odin. Indeed, everywhere are 
there suggestions of temples and tombs, pagodas and 
pyramids, on a scale that no work of human hands 
can rival. “The grandest objects,” says Major Dut- 
ton,“ are merged in a congregation of others equally 
grand.” With the wealth of form goes a wealth of 
color. Never, I venture to say, were reds and browns 
and grays and vermilions more appealing to the eye 
than they are as they softly glow in this great cafion. 
The color-scheme runs from the dark, sombre hue 
of the gneiss at the bottom, up through the yellow- 
ish brown of the Cambrian layers, and on up through 
seven or eight broad bands of varying tints of red 
and vermilion, to the broad yellowish-gray at the 
top. 
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The north side of the cafion has been much more 
deeply and elaborately carved than the south side; 
most of the great architectural features are on the 
north side — the huge temples and fortresses and 
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