"THE GRAND CANYON"

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 103, 5 May 1925, Page 2

"THE GRAND CANYON"

LECTURE BY MR. HOLMES.

iMany have heard of but comparatively _ few have seen the Grand Canyon °f -A'Jzona, but to those few who braved the elements last night in order to vn^J- Harry N- holmes, 0.8.E , J..K-.0.k,., was given an opportunity of first-hand knowledge of that mighty work of Jvaturn. J

Mr. J. Caughley (Director of Education) pi-esided, and introduced the lecturer, recalling the fact that iie and Mr liolines had met years ago in the debating arena, when Mr. Holmes had had a great love of literature, which expressedsublime and inspiring thought concernuff Nature There was n danger of us losing what Kingsley had calfed "aweand reverence for Nature, and lectures Mich as Mr. Holmes was about to deliver should do .much to restore some of the spirit of imagination and poetry in relation to Nature. ™i,Mr ?° lm?s, his lecture, tho who c of which was illustrated with remarkably good coloured lantern slides, h> describing the old Santa Fe Tr-iil— the trail men strove in tho iron days ot old —whoso historic route is ndw traversed by a modern railway to Te Oanyon Mil BCeneg of . « the the route, such as the petrified forest where great logs and trunks lie turned d° W eMe™! ?h °r d I] al?itatio«« of the cliff ™ n ldf °f canyons, and the communal dwelhng houses in the ruins of Pocos, where, hundreds of year" s4 whole.tribes lived under rune 'un e rjof' fastness,, was well conveyed by- the sides, and not a little by the lecturer Most people, said Ml , { lo]n c ™e^ -»t te Iko Mum of U» o Jti some idea ot the difficulty of the X^lt the mighty, rushing river, which has so thanks at tho- conclusion of'his ad-