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We are now ready to start on our way down the Great Unknown. Our boats...are chafing each other, as they are tossed by the fretful…

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We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks…
The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the…
You cannot see the Grand Canyon in one view, as if it were a changeless spectacle from which a curtain might be…
The elements that unite to make the Grand Canyon the most sublime spectacle in nature are multifarious and exceedingly diverse.
Possible ideas and thoughts are vast in number. A distinct word for every distinct idea and thought would require a vast vocabulary.…
The integers of language are sentences, and their organs are the parts of speech. Linguistic organization, then, consists in the differentiation of…
Indian nouns are extremely connotive; that is, the name does more than simply denote the thing to which it belongs - in…
The verb is relatively of much greater importance in an Indian tongue than in a civilized language.
Years of drought and famine come and years of flood and famine come, and the climate is not changed with dance, libation…
The glories and the beauties of form, color, and sound unite in the Grand Canyon - forms unrivaled even by the mountains,…
I have heard the venerable and impassioned orator on the camp meeting stand rehearse the story of the crucifixion, and seen the…
We are now ready to start on our way down the Great Unknown. Our boats...are chafing each other, as they are tossed…

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