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osity, recalling to Powell the poem of Southey, on the Lodore 
he knew, hence the name. The beginning of the gorge is at 
the foot of Brown’s Park through what is called the Gate of 
Lodore, an abrupt gash in the Uinta Mountains 2000 feet deep. 
In viewing this entrance the ordinary spectator is at a loss to 
comprehend how the stream could have begun its attack upon 
this precipitous 
ridge. The theory 
that the river was 
there before the 
upheaval formed 
the mountain does 
not entirely sat¬ 
isfy, for it would 
seem in that case 
that the canyon 
walls would long 
ago have become 
much more broken 
down than they 
are. But the walls 
have a strikingly 
fresh look, as if 
formed recently, 
compared with the 
time of the original 
upheaval. Itseems 
possible that there 
may have been in 
this region some 
great lake which 
lifted the waters 
up to the top of 
the ridge to begin their work of corrasion. Such lakes did 
exist; but lack of space forbids the further pursuit of this 
discussion here. 
Brown’s Park, originally called Brown’s Hole, after one of 
the early trappers, is a fine valley about 35 miles long and 5 or 
Pot-hole in Intermittent Water Course, Glen Canyon. 
Homogeneous sandstone. These holes are often lo to 15 
feet deep, with the stones which ground them lying 
in the bottom. 
Photograph by J. Fennemore. U. S. Colo Riv. Exp. 
