The Arizona sentinel., 1895-12-28
YUMA ARIZONA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2s. ls
The Grand Canyon Of the Colorado
(By Rev. I. T. Whittemore )


 ere at the Yellowstone Park
 that the officer in charge If that re
 servation, speaking of the Canvoi
 of the Yellowstone, said, "It i
 the greatest thing on earth" al
 opinion which you felt jastifieC
 when you stood on Inspiration
 Point and looked down into a gorg,
 1900 feet deepl When I read tha
 1 smiled and thought within my
 self that if 1 were permitted to visit
 that wonderful spot, I would say
 ''My dear brother. 1 have travelled
 with you as reader of the Evan-
 gelist more then forty years-from the Lakes of Killarney to the Gold
 en Horn; from Cairo to the top of Cheops and up the Nile; and across the desert and up Mt. Sinai; over the Himalavas and around the world with Clara as Your comp pa nlon; and with her down the 2U0- foot mine in Nevada-n0t to meu- tion your journey to Spain and your graphic description of Gibralt ar; and it is @ mystery to me that neither you TOT any writer for the Evangelist has mentioned an other American canyon, the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, which is, indeed, the last and greatest wond- CT of the world"
 Why, my most esteemed travel CT, you could lay half a dozen such canyons as that of the Yellowstone in this and not fill it up! You could drop the Pyramid of Cheops at the bottom, place Washington Monu- ment on that, add the Eiffel Tower to that, and you are not half way up! Go with me to the head of "Cameron's Trail" Let us climb and take seat on Meditation Rock. " You are dumb, motionless, awe-struck, and a voice from with in repeats, "How great and wond- erful gre Thy works, O Lordl In wisdom hast Thou made them all!" You look away down, down, at an angle of 60 deg. fteen hundred feet, and if a man were there, he would look no larger than a mousel When you stood on a rock at the Canyon of the Yellowstone, you could see the bottom perpendicular ly. l do not think that there is 9 spot on the rim of the gigantic Canyon of the Colorado where you can do that We are now looking only oue-fourth the distance to the rim perpendicuIarly; this is only a little side chasm!
 Let us leave this spot where tbe mind is bewildered by the depth | and grandeur of the scenery and go to yonder point. Away to the right and to the east as tar as the eye can reach, stretches the vast Coco nino forest. In front of you, you Oeheld wall rising above wall, and l wall beyond wall, forty, fifty, sixty | miles east, till the plateau blends with the horizon. Before you is the grandest sight that the eye of man ever beheld! Where we now stand we are at an altitude of 5000 l feet above the level of the sea, high er than the top of Mount Washing ton, and yet on a level with the land aross this mighty gorge. Here is a rent in the earth not to be found anywhere else on the globe in the Alps, or the Andes, or the Himalayas. Mountain after noun taiE of rocks seems to have been cast into this awful chasm, so that you can get but an occasional l glimpse of the river far, far away in the distant horizon. Would | you see it? Look sharp! Do you see wonder little silvery ribbon of water, so that you think you could | ump over it? We'll, you might 10 it if you could leap three hun 1red feetl You see it z1gzagging for few rods, as it seems, yet in reality for miles, aud then 1t is lost in the intervening walls. How far do you think | is? Three miles! Why, bless you, it is at least ten! Look across to wonder rim, and how far is that? Here it is ten miles, and at some points eighteen, 80 de- are these vast stretches And how deep sunIen is it between those mighty walls? Six thou sand six hundred feet, more than } mile below the level of the place