Explore "Titan of Chasms. The Grand Canyon of Arizona" by Charles Fletcher Lummis on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
The trip in winter from Peach Springs station down to the Colorado River, through Diamond Creek Canyon, is most enjoyable. Owing to the low altitude here (4,780 feet at Peach Springs and approximately 2,000 feet at the river) the air is usually balmy from November to April; in summer the heat is a considerable drawback.
A journey of but twelve miles leads you through a miniature Grand Canyon with scenery increasingly sublime. On either side are abrupt walls and wonderfully suggestive formations -- castles, domes, minarets. On your left, glancing backward, is an exact reproduction of Westminster Abbey.