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Title: In & around the Grand Canyon; the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River in Arizona
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: James, George Wharton, 1858- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown and company

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of these burningcandles left the sensitive plate exposed, while Mr.Berry guided me into farther recesses. This firstcave is some three hundred feet long, and varyingin height from ten to eighty or ninety feet. Thesecond cave is of about the same length, but muchhigher, and the stalactites larger and more diver-sified in shape. A peculiar feature of these caves that has muchpuzzled the local minds is that, while most of theformations are white, the cave itself is in the redlimestone or marble. This is merely another dem-onstration that the red marble wall of the Canyon isnot of this color naturally, but is dyed red by theinfiltration or flowing over of storm and rain water,saturated with the powerful oxydization from the 121 IN AND AROUND red sandstone above. All careful observers musthave noted that wherever the outer dyed wall hasbeen eroded, the color of the so-called red limestoneis brown, or gray, or white, as the case may be, butnever red. I conclude, then, that the original rock
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Copyright hy George IVharioti James. Dendritic Formation in Caves — Grand View Trail. of which the formations of the cave were made waswhite, and their preservation in this virgin state isowing to the sealing up of any water channels fromthe red strata above. Returning now to the entrance after some hoursof absence, I placed the slide in my camera, and ampleased herewith to present my readers with thefirst and only photograph I have ever seen madeby candle-light alone. As we stepped outside the entrance the darknessof Pluto greeted us. While we had been engaged THE GRAND CANYON 129 within, clay had changed into night. There wasno trail constructed at that early date in the dis-covery of the cave, and the knowledge of the diffi-culties of the upward climb we had made, in thefull light of day, did not steady our nerves for thedescent. But Mr. Berry is a man of expedients.In a few moments he had fired a withered cactus,and with the lis^ht of this torch we clambered onhands and knees, s

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