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" Depot, and you have it again. A thousand feet of this is up through granite crags, then steep slopes and perpendicular cliffs rise, one above another, to the summit. The gorge is black and narrow below, red and gray and flaring above, with crags and angular... "
North America: The United States - Page 76
by Samuel Edward Dawson, Henry Gannett - 1898
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Exploration of the Colorado River of the West and Its Tributaries: Explored ...

America - 1875 - 472 pages
...stand at Lake street bridge, in Chicago, and look down i to the Central Depot, and you have it again. A thousand feet of this is up through granite crags,...places by side canons, seem to be a vast wilderness of rocks. Down in these grand, gloomy depths we glide, ever listening, for the mad waters keep up their...
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Exploration of the Colorado River of the West, and Its Tributaries: Explored ...

Smithsonian Institution - Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) - 1875 - 466 pages
...stand at Lake street bridge, in Chicago, and look down to the Central Depot, and you have it again. A thousand feet of this is up through granite crags,...projections on the walls, which, cut in many places by side cafions, seem to be a vast wilderness of rocks. Down in these grand, gloomy depths we glide, ever listening,...
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The Handbook to Arizona: Its Resources, History, Towns, Mines, Ruins, and ...

Richard Josiah Hinton - History - 1878 - 602 pages
...of this is up through granite crags, then slopes and perpendicular cliffs rise one above the other to the summit. The gorge is black and narrow below, red and gray and flaring above, and crags and angular projections on walls which, cut in many places by side caflons, seem to be a...
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The Great West: Its Attractions and Resources. Containing a Popular ...

Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden - West (U.S.) - 1880 - 604 pages
...earth. The following vivid description of the Grand Caflon cannot fail to be read with interest : " The walls now are more than a mile in height, a vertical...projections on the walls, which, cut in many places by side-cafions, seem to be a vast wilderness of rocks. Down in these grand, gloomy depths we glide, ever...
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Boys in the Mountains and on the Plains: Or, The Western Adventures of Tom ...

William Henry Rideing - Adventure stories - 1882 - 412 pages
...thousand feet of the distance is through granite crags, above which are slopes and perpendicular cliffs to the summit. The gorge is black and narrow below, red and gray and flaring above. Down these gloomy depths the expedition constantly glided, ever listening and ever peering ahead, for...
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North America

Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden, Alfred Richard Cecil Selwyn - Canada - 1883 - 758 pages
...brought to the surface the underlying granite, and the lower cliffs of the Grand Canon are of this rock. In Major Powell's story of his trip through these...places by side canons, seem to be a vast wilderness of rocks. Down in these grand gloomy depths we glide, ever listening, for the mad waters keep up their...
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Half-hours with the Best American Authors, Volume 3

American literature - 1886 - 524 pages
...thousand feet of the distance is through granite crags, above which are slopea and perpendicular cliffs to the summit. The gorge is black and narrow below, red and gray and flaring above. Down these gloomy depths the expedition constantly glided, ever listening and ever peering ahead, for...
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The Normal Course in Reading, Book 5

Emma J. Todd, W. B. Powell - 1890 - 522 pages
...of this is up through granite crags, then slopes and perpendicular cliffs rise one above the other to the summit. The gorge is black and narrow below, red and gray and flaring above, and crags and angular projections on walls which, cut in many places by side canons, seem to be a vast...
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The Normal Course in Reading: Fifth Reader : Advanced Readings in Literature ...

Emma J. Todd, William Bramwell Powell - Readers - 1892 - 546 pages
...of this is up through granite crags, then slopes and perpendicular cliffs rise one above the other to the summit. The gorge is black and narrow below, red and gray and flaring above, and crags and angular projections on walls which, cut in many places by side canons, seem to be a vast...
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The Normal Course in Reading, by Emma J. Todd and W.B. Powell: Alternate ...

Emma J. Todd - 1896 - 522 pages
...of this is up through granite crags, then slopes and perpendicular cliffs rise one above the other to the summit. The gorge is black and narrow below, red and gray and flaring above, and crags and angular projections on walls which, cut in many places by side canons, seem to be a vast...
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