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(IRANI) CANON DISTRICT. 



Fk;. 3.— a lateral cafion. Btoalante. 



the experienced explorer is sometimes brought to a sudden halt and 

 filled with amazement by the apparition of tonus as definite and elo- 

 quent as those of art. Each geological formation exhibits in its din's a 

 distinct style of architecture which is not reproduced among theclifis 

 of other formations, and these several Btyles differ as much as those which 

 are cultivated by different races of men. 



^ The character which appeals most strongly to the eye is the coloring. 

 The gentle tints of an eastern landscape, the pale blue of distant mount- 

 ains, the green of vernal or summer vegetation, the subdued colors of 

 hillside and meadow, are wholly wanting here, and in their place we 

 behold belts of brilliant red, yellow, and white, which are intensified 

 rather than alleviated by alternating belts Of gray. Like tin- architect- 



