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The Havasupai 
route. At one place a ladder was even necessary to complete 
the 2000 feet of descent to the settlement, where a clear creek 
suddenly breaks from the rocks, and, rapid and blue, sweeps 
The Grand Canyon from Bright Angel Trail. 
Painting by Thomas Moran. 
away down 2000 or more feet to the Colorado, falling in its 
course at one point over a precipice in three cataracts aggregat¬ 
ing 250 feet, from which it takes its name. Here are about 
