The Arizona sentinel., 1898-08-27

Mitchell Prudden says:
 Itis tiresome to try to concieve of the long reaches of time during which this great inland sea was filling up, and it is fortunate that the geologists who deal in such lordIy. lavish fashion with the 1 Iyea.s. handling them iu parcels of ] a l.v millions, or a hundred mil ion or % finally lamp them to- 1 gg her unde- ages -Carbouifarous 3arnain, Triassic, Jurssi, Cre.a- ccous, etc names which are not insistent in the suggestion that they were, after all, made up, of hours and minutes, which only one by one have slipped away.
 But if you go out into the plateau country 500 miles from any ocean you will not doubt this inland sea. For you may ride for hours along shady rock escarpments on which the ripples of. the ancient shores are as plain and plenty as ever you saw them on the Jersey coast. You can pick up shells, too, which at feast suggest clans, stone though they be to-day. The northern part of the plateau country, now cut cff from the rest by the Uintah Mount aims, the bones of monkeys and crocodiles, of birds with teeth and three-toed horses, of sea serpents -honor bright,I appeal to Marsh and Of motley Iot Of u.U6C and nameIess uncouth, ludiCrous beasts, are piled pell-melI together in the washes, O. half buried lu banks and cliffs and w5atbered 0uttes which once were the shores and bottoms of our slowly shoaLing inland sea
 Theseoret oftha great denudation and of this wonderful achievement
 the Colorado in carving cut 7f .oek a series of canyons about 5og js.'-s lon2 .4+G. .44 ~~- l-15 at least n Q ur.a deep, rir. a multitude of tributary chasms and corges, is very simple when you know it. The old lake bed slowly rose. At first the Colorado River and it's tributaries, or some name | less monstrous ancestor of these, sweeping over the slowly rising surfaces, planea them down in most relentless fashion, and then began wearing out broad shallow stream beds. But then the country rose more rapidly, and the water had to cut deeper channels in the rocks in order to get out and away to sea. Owing in part to the wear of the water itself, but more to the cease less bombardment of the suspended sand which it bore from tLe up country, or picked up as it went along, and to the thump of pebbles and powders with it swept on in flood time, the river kept cutting down as the strata rose, until finally when what was left of our inland sea bottom got thrust up so that towering farS above it's erstwhile rocky shores, it had to be called a plateau, the Colorado and its auxiliaries found themselves at the bottom of series of cOj0ss0Icanyons and goIges. where they are to-day
 The great canyon is =h..-aE the { camera, and the marvellous bl"@ haze. now luminous, now faint, DOW shot with purple Us the light falls red upon it at sunset, IS aiwayo there, holding it's reserve inviOlate. Single cliffs and towers of rare strength and beauty you may secure upon your films, but the canyon never.
 The outline paEoramas sketched by Holmes for the geological survey recall some very striking forms anc
 grouping of masses, and, simple as they are, conyey,I think, better thar photographs an impression of space and distance.
 The first white man to look upor the Grand Canon were some ole Spainards, who went out from the Moqui villages in 1541. A few O. them scrambled down the cliffs 6 little way, and took 8 world o satisfaction, when they got back in pointing out to their wiser