Excerpt from Prince Izon a Romance of the Grand Canyon
In the heart of the continent of North America, there lies a region of mystery, a strange and wonderful locality, utterly unlike any other part of the globe, and so little explored that it is almost unknown to our ninety millions of people, except the few courageous ones who have attempted to penetrate its forbidding and hidden ways.
For it is a region of terrific dangers, yet of majestic grandeurs. To stand on its brink is to behold a scene vouchsafed nowhere else on this earth - a panorama so stupendous in its extent and bewildering in its depth, that, at the first view, the breath is bound and the brain reels; a vision perhaps more vast and alluring than the one spread before the Son of Man, when tempted by Lucifer on the heights.
To descend to its abysmal depths and attempt to navigate the torrent that fights its way through its Plutonian channels, is to encounter a real inferno more awesome than the one imagined by Dante and pictured by Dore.
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