The Romance 
OF 
The Colorado River 
The Story of its Discovery in 1540, with an Account 
of the Later Explorations, and with Special Ref¬ 
erence to the Voyages of Powell through 
the Line of the Great Canyons 
By 
Frederick S. Dellenbaugh 
Member of the United States Colorado River Expedition of 
1871 and 1872 
No sluggish tide congenial to the glooms ; 
This, as it frothed by, might have been a bath 
For the fiend’s glowing hoof—” 
Browning 
SECOND EDITION 
G. P. Putnam’s Sons 
New York and London 
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