DOTTON.] 



GRAND CANON AT THE TOROWEAP. 



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Flo. 8.— The brink of tin-. Inner Gorge at the foot of tho Torovcap, looking east. 



At the foot of the eastern gable is a medley of rocky lodges of red 

 sandstone, while around the base of the western gable are large masses 

 of basalt reaching more than half-way across the valley. In front rises 

 a crater, which is about GOO feet high, seemingly a mere knoll in the 

 midst of this colossal scenery. Beyond it, and five miles distant, rises 

 the palisade which forms the southern upper wall of the chasm, stretching 

 athwart the line of vision interminably in either direction. Its altitude 

 is apparently the same as that of the palisade above us, and its profile 

 is also identical. Climbing among the rocky ledges which lie at the 

 base of the escarpment, we at length obtain a stand-point which enables 

 us to gain a preliminary view of the mighty avenue. To the eastward 

 it stretches in vanishing perspective forty miles or more. Between sym- 

 metric walls 2,000 feet high and five miles apart is a plain, which in 



