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Show PAKlA AMPHITHEATEE. 255 forgotten by him who has once beheld it. This is one of the grand panoramas of the Plateau Country and typical in all respects. To the eye which is not trained to it and to the mind which is not inured to its strangeness, its desolation and grotesqueness may be repulsive rather than attractive, but to the mind which has grown into sympathy with such scenes it conveys a sense of power and grandeur and a fullness of meaning which lay hold of the sensibilities more forcibly than tropical verdure or snow-clad Alps or Arcadian valleys. The Amphitheater or Upper Valley of the Paria seems from the summit of the Pink Cliffs to be a slightly rugged basin, but like most of the Plateau Country it is found to be a difficult field to traverse. A network of sharp canons several hundred feet in depth ramifies through it, and the traveler is apt to become entangled in their mazes, and find himself confronted every few miles with an impassable chasm, never seen until he is almost upon the point of driving his mule into it. A few tortuous traits wind deftly among them, leading by break-neck paths into their depths and out again, and finally into the broad and grotesquely picturesque bottom of the Paria River. The Paunsagunt is the southernmost extension of the system of the High Plateaus, and is a promontory thrust out into the terraces which step by step drop down to the Kaibab district. In this series of terraces are exposed the edges, almost always cliffwise, of the entire Mesozoic system of the region. Just here the Cretaceous does not form such conspicuous cliffs as it presents farther east, but the Jurassic'and Triassic series are seen to the southward in their most typical forms. The exposures are truly magnificent. While the cliffs front southward, presenting in naked walls their entire thickness and disclosing every line, they are also cut from north to south and sometimes diagonally by canons, which reveal their dip and structure. But as these terraces are more. properly a, part of the Kaibab system, no detailed description will be given of them here. The Paunsagunt itself is a simple tabular block of Lower Eocene beds, of which a section has just been given. It is exceedingly simple in^its structure, and, further than has been already described, presents very little matter for special remark. It is destitute of eruptive rocks, except at its northern |