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The Great Canon Of The Yellow--stone

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Parent Issue
Day
21
Month
April
Year
1871
Copyright
Public Domain
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Tlio Qxeat Falla are at the head of ono of tho must remarkable canons in thu world - a gorge through volcanic rooks f ft y miles long, and v&rying from one thouaamd t" nearlv live tliousand feet in depth. In its descent through thia wimdeiful ehasm íln.' river falla èumost tinco fchousand feet. At one point, whcre the passage has been worn (hrough a mount.iin range, our huntera assurod ua it was more than a vertical mile in depth, and tho river, broken into vapid.s and cascades, appeared no wider than a ribbon. The brain reels as we gaze into this profound and solonin solitude. We shrmk from the dizzy verge appalled, glad to feel the solid earth under our feot, and venturo no niore, except with forms extended, and barely protruding over the odge of the preoipice. The stillness is horrible. Down, iliiwn, down, we s.:e the liver attonuated to a throud, toafflng its miiiiaturo waves, and dashing, with puny strength, tho massivo walla which imprison it. All aocess to its margin is denied, and tho dark gray rocks liold it in diamol shadow. Èvon tho voico it' i(s wators in their (■onvulsivo agny oannot bo hcard. Uncheorod by plant or shrub, obstruoted with massivo bonlders and by jutting points, it rushos madly on its solitary euurse, deopor and duoper into tho bowols of tho rocky firmament. The solenin grandeur of the ebene surpasses description. It must beseen to bo feit. The sonso of danger with which it impresses you is harrowing in the extreme. You feel tho absence of soumi, the oppression of absolute silonco. If youcould only hear that gurgling river, if youcould seo a living tree in tho depth bencath you, if a bird would fly past, if the wind would move any object in the awfnl cliasm, to break' for a moment the solemn silenco that reigns there, it would relieve that tonsion of the ñervos which the sceno li.is excited, ;md you would riso from your prostrate condition and thank Ood that he had pormitted you to gazo, unharmed, upon this uiajostic display of natural architecture. As it is, sympathizing in spirit with the doop gloom of ;he scène, you crawl from the dreadrol vergo, scared lost the fimi rock gave way seneath and precipítate you into tho

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Old News
Michigan Argus