Others were before them, standing upon the ample porches in interested groups; but such idleness would not content our girls, who trooped away for a more intimate acquaintance with the wonderful gorge.
"Oh, how small--how terribly small--I am!" cried Patsy, lost in the immensity of the canyon's extent; but this is a common cry of travelers visiting Bright Angel.

You might place a baker's dozen of the huge Falls of Niagara in the Grand Canyon and scarcely notice they were there.

All the vast cathedrals of Europe set upon its plateau would seem like pebbles when viewed from the brink.

The thing is simply incomprehensible to those who have not seen it.
Presently Uncle John and the Major came out to join them and they all wandered along the edge until they came to a huge rock that jutted out far over the monster gulf.

On the furthermost point of this rock, standing with his feet at the very brink, was a tall, thin man, his back toward them.