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“Yes if he will try, he had better borrow a pair of wings to scale

certain places.”

Mr. Greene went on to say, “One statement I made, I want to fill

out. I spoke of the action of
water.in the forming of cafions
and referred to other agencies.
There have plainly been the lat-
ter. One day, I noticed in the
Colorado, masses of lava-rock,
some of them low, and yet others
rose up to a height of a hundred
feet and more. After a while, I
came to an old dead. volcano on
the right of a fall in the river.
From the mouth of this volcano,
immense lava-streams had been
discharged into the river, and it
looked as if in all, a mass twelve
or fifteen hundred feet deep had
been poured out. Then the water
cut its way through, and you can
see in some places .a line of
basalt on either side. Here isa
question that might be asked.
In the forming of caiions, why
did not the rivers run round the
mountains rather than through
them? Water when it meets an

 

 

 

 

ISLAND MONUMENT, GLEN CANON.

obstacle is apt to avoid it, but here the river flows through the mountain.

One might say the water found a split in the mountains and poured