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THE TOROWEAP VALLKY. 



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Fig. 7.— I 



Witches' Water Poeket. 



(ills it with water, which is good enough when recent, but horrible when 

 old. Here, then, we camp for the night. 



Filling the kegs at daylight, we descend again into the Toroweap 

 and move southward. Our attention is strongly attracted by the wall 

 upon the eastern side. Steadily it increases its mass and proportions. 

 Soon it becomes evident that its profile is remarkably constant. We 

 did not notice this at first, for we saw in the upper valley only the sum- 

 mit of the palisade; but as the valley cuts deeper in the earth the plan 

 and system begin to unfold. At the summit is a vertical ledge, next 

 beneath a long Mansard slope, then a broad plinth, and last, and greater 

 than all, a long, sweeping curve, descending gracefully to the plain be- 

 low. Just opposite to us the pediments seem half buried, or rather half 

 risen out of the valley alluvium. But beyond they rise higher and 

 higher until in the far distance the profile is complete. In this escarp- 

 ment are excavated alcoves with openings a mile wide. As soon as we 

 reach the first one new features appear. The upper ledge suddenly 

 breaks out into a wealth of pinnacles and statues standing in thick ranks. 

 They must be from 100 to 250 feet high, but now the height of the wall 

 is more than a thousand feet, and they do not seem colossal. Indeed, 



