Indeed, each person who first looks into the abyss has a sensation of being a discoverer, for the scene is so weird and lonely and so incomprehensible in its novelty that one feels that it could never have been viewed before.

And it IS rather a discovery for each individual, because no amount of verbal or pictorial description can ever fully prepare the spectator for, the sublime reality.

Even when one becomes familiar with the incomparable spectacle it never ceases to astonish.

A recent writer has well said: "The sublimity of the Pyramids is endurable, but at the rim of the Grand Canyon we feel outdone."* Outdone is exactly the right word.

Nowhere else can man's insignificance be so burned into his soul as here, where his ingenuity and power count for naught.
* Harriet Monroe, Atlantic Monthly, June, 1902.
Cardenas, after all, was only one of the discoverers.