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Title: Greatest wonders of the world
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Singleton, Esther, d. 1930
Subjects: Curiosities and wonders Landscapes
Publisher: New York, The Christian Herald
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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looked on him (as well they might) as on one returnedfrom the grave. The life thus wonderfully saved, was,however, sacrificed a few months later, when he fell intothe hands of his old Indian foes. The story of Whites adventure was confirmed by vari-ous trappers and prospectors, who, from time to time, ven-tured some little way into this mysterious rock-labyrinth;and it was determined to attempt a government survey ofthe region. Accordingly, in 1869, a party, commanded byMajor J. W. Powell, started on this most interesting butdangerous expedition. Warned by the fate of a party whoattempted to explore the country in 1855, and who, withthe exception of two men (Ashley and another), all perishedmiserably, the government party started with all possibleprecautions. Four light Chicago-built boats were provisioned for sixmonths, and, with infinite difficulty, were transported 1,500miles across the desert. On reaching their starting-point,they were lowered into the awful ravines, from which it
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THE GRAXD CANON OF THE COLORADO. THE GRAND CANYON OF THE COLORADO 137 was, to say the least, problematic whether all would emergealive. The dangers, great enough in reality, had beenmagnified by rumour. It was reported, with every sem-blance of probability, that the river formed terrible whirl-pools—that it flowed underground for hundreds of miles,and emerged only to fall in mighty cataracts and appallingrapids. Even the friendly Indians entreated the explorersnot to attempt so rash an enterprise, assuring them thatnone who embarked on that stream would escape alive. But in the face of all such counsel, the expedition started,and for upwards of three months the party travelled, onemay almost say in the bowels of the earth—at least in herdeepest furrows—through canyons where the cliffs rise,sheer from the water, to a height of three-quarters ofa mile ! They found, as was only natural, that imagination hadexaggerated the horrors of the situation, and that it waspossible to follow

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