i<i:iton. 



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14. — A lateral amphitheater of the second order, 



the meaning and spirit of that marvelous scenery which characterizes 



the Plateau country, and of which the great chasm is the superlative 

 manifestation. The study and slow mastery of the influences of that 

 class of scenery and its full appreciation is a special culture, requiring 

 time, patience, and long familiarity for its consummation. The lover of 

 nature, whose perceptions have been trained in the Alps, in Italy, Ger- 

 many, or New England, in the Appalachians or Cordilleras, in Scotland 

 or Colorado, Avould enter this strange region with a shock, and dwell 

 there for a time with a sense of oppression, and perhaps with horror. 



