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GRAND CANON DISTRICT. 



alacrity. From the chief of the party down to the herders and cooks all 

 look forward to delightful wanderings in a cooler atmosphere, in open 

 forests of noble pines and spruces, in flowery parks and winding ave- 

 nues oi rich verdure; to scenery the grandest of earth, and to commu- 

 nion with Nature in her noblest and loveliest moods. As we descend 



the village street and take a well-known by-path upon its outskirts, even 

 the poor animals know whither they arc going; they have traveled this 

 trail before and remember the long, green bunch-grass and tufted " gram- 

 ma," the lupine and wild oats. They trot along with nimble steps, 

 requiring neither spur to urge nor rein to guide them. Before us is the 

 Permian terrace rising by the gentlest of slopes ; through it the Kanab 

 River has cut a wide shallow gap in which stand several pretty little 

 buttes carved sumptuously in the characteristic style of the formation. 

 Beyond it the Carboniferous platform extends southward without visi- 



