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"Well, I'll begin by making love to a seamstress when I'm over the Potomac," remarked Welch, getting upon his feet. "I'm decidedly in need of a couple of patches." "You make love! You!" roared Jack Powell. "Why, you're the kind of thing they set up in Maryland to keep the crows away.
I hailed from Buffalo, was the youngest of the party, and served as artist to the geologists, and later was placed on the topographical work. Mrs. Powell and Mrs. Thompson spent several days at Green River and rendered much assistance, the latter presenting each boat with a handsome flag made by her own hands.
Not," said I, lifting up my voice, "that I would for a moment compare walking on the level ground to mountain ranging, pacing along the road to springing up crags like a mountain goat, or assert that even Powell himself, the first of all road walkers, was entitled to so bright a wreath of fame as the Snowdon Ranger." "Won't you walk in, sir?" said the elderly man.
In his eagerness to reach a point where he could see the roaring fall below, Major Powell went too far, and was caught at a point where he could neither advance nor retreat: the river was four hundred feet below, and he was suspended in front of the cliff with one foot on a small projecting rock and one hand fixed in a little crevice.
In a few minutes more Mrs. Ruthven appeared, her face full of sorrow. As she approached Harry Powell, the tears stood in her eyes. "My dear aunt, how glad I am to see you, after this long separation!" cried the young man impulsively. "Oh, Harry! Harry! How can you come here in that uniform?" she returned. "Let us speak of that later, Aunt Alice.
Tom had not noticed his aunt's agitation at the mention of her sister's name. He went on speaking of his visit to Broadhurst. "They want you to spend a day or two there next week, Rosie. Mr. Powell has asked Laura to sing at the concert, and she wants to practise with you." Rose's pretty face clouded over. "But I am going to stay with Pauline next week.
Major Powell resolved to go through this canyon in boats. No boat had ever gone down this deep, dark channel. Two men, running away from Indians, had once gone into it on a raft. The raft was dashed over rapids and waterfalls. The provisions of the men were washed overboard. One of the men was drowned, and the other at last floated out at the lower end of the canyon more dead than alive.
The members of the party, together with their disposition in the boats at starting, were as follows: John Wesley Powell, John C. Sumner, William H. Dunn the Emma Dean; Walter H. Powell, G. Y. Bradley Kitty Clyde's Sister; O. G. Howland, Seneca Howland, Frank Goodman the No-Name; William R. Hawkins, Andrew Hall Maid of the Canyon. Powell, as noted, had been a volunteer officer in the Civil War.
He mentions the Honourable Robert Hamilton, a member of the Legislative Council, and the two Chief Justices, Elmsley and Powell, as among the largest purchasers of these lands. Mr. Hamilton's acquisitions amounted to about a hundred thousand acres.
The guide will point out to you or he is no guide the spot where in 1873 Thomas Moran sat with Major Powell, and afterwards painted the memorable canvas of the Grand Canyon which now hangs in the Capitol at Washington. Sleep out on Point Sublime and remember Dutton, whose beautifully polished descriptions of the Canyon, written here, have thrilled thousands of civilized and cultured people.
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