Description
A wide color view looks across the layered cliffs and deep chasm of the Grand Canyon. The foreground shows a dark rocky rim, while sunlit mesas and buttes recede into the distance under a pale blue sky. The scene is captioned as a northwest view from near Pima Point. undated
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79524 NORTHWEST FROM NEAR PIMA POINT, GRAND CANYON, ARIZONA
COPR. FRED HARVEY.
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FRED HARVEY
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There are really two Canyons, one above the other. The first, the upper one, riven from the carboniferous limestone, and the homogeneous sandstone is that Canyon we know from picture. Out of this soft formation has been chiselled by the gods those miraculous forms of beauty, the temple and towers and turrets that are characteristic. At the rim this Canyon is about thirteen miles wide and 4000 feet deep. The other Canyon, below, is the chasm in the granite through which the river runs. Compared with the upper Canyon it is a mere rift 1500 feet deep, with walls nearly perpendicular.
