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The Colorado River 
which, on the contrary, is a veritable dragon, loud in its dan¬ 
gerous lair, defiant, fierce, opposing utility everywhere, re¬ 
fusing absolutely to be bridled by Commerce, perpetuating a 
wilderness, prohibiting mankind’s encroachments, and in its 
In Glen Canyon. 
Walls of homogeneous sandstone looo feet high. 
Photograph by J. Fennemore, U. S. Colorado River Expedition. 
immediate tide presenting a formidable host of snarling waters 
whose angry roar, reverberating wildly league after league be¬ 
tween giant rock-walls carved through the bowels of the earth, 
heralds the impossibility of human conquest and sinothers 
hope. From the tiny rivulets of its snowy birth to the fero- 
