Within  Twenty-five  Miles  of  Santa  Fe,  New

Mexico 215

Petrified  Giants,  Third  Forest,  Arizona 228

Collection  of  Cacti  made  by  Officers  at  Fort  McDowell,  Arizona,

for  this  Picture 232

Looking  through  a  Part  of  the  River  Gorge,  Foot  of  Bad  Trail,

Grand  Canon 240

Suwara  (Giant  Cactus),  Salt  River  Valley,  Arizona 267

San  Francisco  Peak,  near  Flagstaff,  Arizona 276

Grand  Canon,  from  Grand  View  Point 316

Zigzag,  Bright  Angel  Trail,  Grand  Canon 318

A  Cliff  on  Bright  Angel  Trail,  Grand  Canon 320


THE   LAND    OF   ENCHANTMENT


THE  LAND  OF  ENCHANTMENT

CHAPTER  I

WITH  WESTERN  STARS  AND  SUNSETS

"  The  sun,  the  moon,  the  stars,  the  seas,  the  hills,  and  the  plains  —
Are  not  these,  O  Soul,  the  Vision  of  Him  wlio  reigns  ?  "

TENNYSON

"  It  may  be  that  the  gulfs  will  wash  us  down."

TENNYSOX

«'  My  father's  kingdom  is  so  large  that  people  perish  with  cold  at  one
extremity  whilst  they  are  suffocated  with  heal  at  the  other."

CYRUS  TO  XENOPHON

THE  good  American  of  the  Twentieth  century  by  no
means  defers  going  to  Paris  until  he  dies,  but  antici-
pates the  joys  of  Paradise  by  making  a  familiarity  with
the  French  capital  one  of  the  consolations  that  tend  to
the  alleviation  of  his  enforced  terrestrial  sojourn. All
Europe,  indeed,  has  become  the  pleasure-ground  of  Amer-
ican tourists,  a  large  proportion  of  whom  fail  to  realize
that  in  our  own  country  there  are  enchanted  regions
in  which  the  traveller  feels  that  he  has  been  caught
up  in  the  starry  immensities  and  heard  the  words  not
lawful  for  man  to  utter. Within  the  limits  of  Colorado,
New  Mexico,  Arizona,  and  Southern  California  there  are


4      THE  LAND   OF  ENCHANTMENT

four  centres  of  sublime  and  unparalleled  scenic  sublimity
which  stand  alone  and  unrivalled  in  the  world. Neither
the  Alps  nor  the  Himalayas  can  offer  any  parallel  to  the  phe-
nomena of  the  mountain  and  desert  systems  of  the  South-
west as  wrought  by  the  march  of  ages,  presenting  unique
and  incomparable  problems  of  scientific  interest  that  defy
solution,  and  which  are  inviting  the  constant  study  and
increasing  research  of  many  among  the  most  eminent  spe-
cialists of  the  day  in  geology  and  metallurgy. 