They are no more so than an ordinary city street flanked with very high buildings.

Some lateral canyons are narrow and so deep that the sun enters them but briefly, but even these are only shady, not dark.
[Illustration: Red Canyon.
Photograph by E.O.Beaman, 1871.] We remained on the Major's old camp ground a day so that Jones and Cap.
could climb to the top of the cliff to get the topography.

The next morning though it was Sunday was not to be one of rest.

We began by lowering the boats about forty rods farther and there pulled out into the stream and were dashed along by a fierce current with rapid following rapid closely.

The descent was nearly continuous with greater declivities thrown in here and there.