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road is No. 4, its walls seventy-five to eighty feet hio-h. 

 It is more than a fourth of a mile long- and generally 

 twice as wide as either of the others, and has a small 

 perennial stream flowing through it. About a half 

 mile farther west and close to the road we find No. 5, 

 the well-known Atwood's, Clark's or Delbridge's 

 canon, noted for its vast rock shelter, some ninety feet 

 wide by eighty-five feet deep, and in front fifty feet 

 high. The enclosing walls are 80 to 100 feet high, and 

 it is six to eight rods wide and sixty rods long. The 

 rock shelter or cave is near the entrance on the west 

 side, and just beyond it a branch canon comes in from 

 the west, narrow, straight and about ten rods long. 

 About a half mile farther west we find a short, deep 

 and picturesque gorg'e. No. 6. It is about thirty-five 

 rods long, bounding walls 90 to 100 feet high, and is 

 from four to ten rods wide. The stream flowing 

 through it is not perennial, but there is usually a pool 

 at the head of the canon. Nearly a half mile west of 

 No. 6 we find a gorg-e very different from an}^ of the 

 foregoing. Following a small stream which has cut 

 its bed deep into the sandstone with very symmetrical 

 curves, we enter No. 7, which, pursuing a southerly 

 course about eig'ht rods, turns sharply to the west and 

 runs parallel with the bluff for about thirty rods. It 

 is dry, except in time of rain, or w^hen the ground 

 is very w^et. Its walls tower up over 100 feet, and -are 

 either perpendicular or overhanging-. A half mile 

 farther west and we reach a creek or rivulet, turninp- 

 up which we soon find ourselves shut in on the west by 

 a gigantic wall of rock generally covered with 

 moss and herbage. A few rods farther we see them 

 on the east also, and a little farther on they seem 

 to close around and shut us in, but a few steps farther 

 and we see two openings, one to the southeast, the other 



