MARBLE CASfON. 181 
The slope of the country to the north is the same as the dip of the beds, 
for the country rises to the south as the beds rise to the south. 
Stand on the Vermilion Cliffs, at the head of Marble Canon, and look 
off down the river over a stretch of country that steadily rises in the dis 
tance until it reaches an altitude far above even the elevated point of obser 
vation, and then see meandering through it to the south the gorge in which 
the river runs, everywhere breaking down with a sharp brink, and in the 
perspective the summits of the walls appearing to approach until they are 
merged in a black line, and you can hardly resist the thought that the river 
burrows into, and is lost under, the great inclined plateau. 
