Field Notebook: Arizona 1925b
Page 116
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Grand Canyon, Wednesday April 15-1925. I spent two hours sitting and walking at Powell's Memorial. It is built of Kaitab dolomite resting on the "Lignite" Linestone" at the outer end of the Point east. It is in the style of an Aztec Sacrificial Altar on the top of which is the pedestal of ordinary cement dating from the southern explorers the large tablet denoting mpl. 110. There are three thin holes for tablets but none were put in them. The whole affair is too cheap looking to commiserate or it is a reflection of what Canyon thinks of this great gift, under such a crown and or daring a slight application. The pedestal should be of some enduring stone with either this one tablet or 2 or 3 at Tablets. Then around the lower part of the Kaitab monument should be built the geological columns of the Grand Canyon are about in the style of the Canyon. All of the creatures of the canyon. The view from Hpi Point has a ridge oncep both up and down the canyon than at Bright Angel or El Tovar. The elevation here is also 7050 feet. There is a good foot-path all along the rim from the hotels to Hpi Point. A walk along this part of the rim furnishes a fine illustration of the Canyon. In the afternoon I sat on the benches in front of El Tovar Hotel and studied over the topography and geology of the scenery of the North Rim on either side of Bright