 ... for a moment to pronounce it by far the most sublime of all earthly spectacles. If its sublimity consisted only in its dimensions, it could be sufficiently set forth, in a single sentence. It is more than 200 miles long, from 5 to 12 miles wide, and...  The United States - Page 72by Henry Gannett - 1898 - 466 pagesFull view - About this book
 | America - 1899 - 950 pages
...than 200 miles long, from five to twelve miles wide, and from 5,000 to 6,000 feet deep. There are in the world valleys which are longer, and a few which...than the palisades of the Kaibab. Still, the Grand Canyon is the sublimest thing on earth. The Plateau country abounds in close resemblances to natural... | |
 | Stephen Denison Peet, J. O. Kinnaman - America - 1900 - 508 pages
...than 200 miles long, from five to twelve miles wide, and from 5,000 to 6,000 feet deep. There are in the world valleys which are longer, and a few which...valleys flanked by summits loftier than the palisades ot the Kaibab. Still, the Grand Canyon is the sublimest thing on earth. The Plateau country abounds... | |
 | Geological Survey (U.S.) - Geology - 1882 - 448 pages
...more than 200 miles long, from 5 to 12 miles wide, and from 5,000 to 6,000 feet deep. There are in the world valleys which are longer and a few which...flanked by summits loftier than the palisades of the Kai L -,::C-tL sust fcfc;M,'#« r--^r" ,' <*&&> '.y 4 l^T^y^s^^ ^jjL^/t&i ^v^.^,:'"', ^S^K^'^f m -... | |
 | William M. Thayer - West (U.S.) - 1887 - 774 pages
...long, from five to twelve miles wide, and from five thousand to six thousand feet deep. There are in the world valleys which are longer and a few which...sublimest thing on earth. It is not alone by virtue of its magnitude, but by virtue of its whole, its ensemble." YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK. We might very appropriately... | |
 | 1890 - 506 pages
...wide, and from 5,000 to 6,000 ft. deep. There are in the world valleys which are longer, and a few deeper. There are valleys flanked by summits loftier...Grand Canon is the sublimest thing on earth. It is so not alone by virtue of its magnitudes, but by virtue of the whole — its ensemble." SLANG. THE... | |
 | Stephen Denison Peet - Cliff-dwellers - 1899 - 498 pages
...than 200 miles long, from five to twelve miles wide, and from 5,000 to 6,000 feet deep. There are in the world valleys which are longer, and a few which...valleys flanked by summits loftier than the palisades ot the Kaibab. Still, the Grand Canyon is the sublimest thing on earth. The Plateau country abounds... | |
 | George Wharton James - Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) - 1900 - 448 pages
...long, from five to twelve miles wide, and from five thousand to six thousand feet deep. There are in the world valleys which are longer and a few which...than the palisades of the Kaibab. Still the Grand Canyon is the sublimest thing on earth. It is so not alone by virtue of its magnitudes, but by virtue... | |
 | Esther Singleton - Rivers - 1908 - 454 pages
...than 200 miles long, from five to twelve miles wide, and from 5,000 to 6,000 feet deep. There are in the world valleys which are longer and a few which...The space under immediate view from our stand-point, fifty miles long and ten to twelve wide, is thronged with a great multitude of objects so vast in size,... | |
 | George Wharton James - Arizona - 1910 - 354 pages
...long, from five to twelve miles wide, and from five thousand to six thousand feet deep. There are in the world valleys which are longer and a few which...than the palisades of the Kaibab. Still the Grand Canyon is the sublimest thing on earth. It is so not alone by virtue of its magnitudes, but by virtue... | |
 | Andrew Goudie - Nature - 2002 - 488 pages
...hesitate for a moment to pronounce it by far the most sublime of all earthly spectacles. ... It is not so alone by virtue of its magnitudes, but by virtue of the whole — its ensemble. AsThornbury (1965: 418) remarked: A number of factors combine to make the Grand Canyon 'grand', most... | |
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