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[[circled]]15[[/circled]]  Oct 23
The sun has set and twilight is falling.  A quart of beef tea and a large slice of raisin bread ought to inshure me to write but on the contrary I am lazy.  The view however is grand and inspiring
To the right and left the canon walls rise in a clean cliff over 2000 feet.  In front, down the river a great mass of the outer wall rises like an immense castle pile falling to ruin.  Four thousand feet above to the summit of its gray cap.  To night it is a great black mass, yet small as compared with the greater extent of canon walls beneath.  By the light of the rising sun the effect
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