The Grand Cañon is now entered and safely passed, a distance of two hundred and seventeen and one-half miles, terminating with the Grand Wash.
We are compelled to terminate this article abruptly for lack of space. It is proper to say that this journey has scarcely ever been equaled for daring and hardihood. Each time they descended a rapids, they were liable to come to a fall too great to shoot over, with walls so steep they could not be climbed, and rapids so swift as to prevent return.
The Grand Cañon, as one of the wonders of the world, is visited every summer by hundreds of tourists.
OPTIMUS.
BY REV. CHARLES COKE WOODS.
A glow-worm in the grass at night shed forth
Its feeble light, but darkness deepened fast;
The wee thing did its uttermost to banish night,
And that, forsooth, was truest toil, indeed,