Ancient Chinese account of the Grand Canyon, or course of the Colorado

The ancient Chinese records tell of a Place of Ten Suns, where Ten Suns rose and shone together (see Appendix, note 1).
Seven Suns were also seen shining together in the sky! and at night (if indeed we can call it night ) as many as seven moons! (What a haunt for lovers and poets!)
Five Suns were also beheld (see note 2).
What Liars those Chinese writers are!
Figure 1. Spectacle of Five Suns.
Very good; but why not denounce all our own Arctic navigators as a pack of Liars? They all tell about more Suns than one! A picture of Five (see Figure 1) is furnished by a most eminent explorer (note 3). The dictionaries and cyclopedias of our careful publishers call the appearance of two or more suns (or moons) a Parhelion . The number of the multiplied luminaries never exceeds Ten (note 4). There actually is a Place of Ten Suns.
Ten Suns say the Ancients.
Ten Suns say the Moderns.
The ancient Mexicans likened North America to a Tree—a stupendous Mulberry Tree — planted in the land known to us today as South America (n. 5).
The Chinese geographers or mythologists teach that at a distance of 30,000 le (10,000 miles) to the east there is a land 10,000 le (over 3,000) miles in width.
Now the land referred to must be North America, for, 10,000 miles east from southern China brings us to California; and we further find that North America, now reached, is 10,000 le , or over 3,000 miles in width, measuring from the Pacific to the Atlantic.
The Chinese accounts further call our eastern realm a Fu-Sang (or Helpful Mulberry ) land.