SECOND GRAND CANYON

Taranaki Daily News, 19 January 1933, Page 6

SECOND GRAND CANYON

DISCOVERY IN AFRICA. INHABITED BY MONKEYS. A great valley like the Grand Canyon of Arizona, cut nearly a mile deep across plateau lands of southern Abyssinia, but inhabited only by monkeys, and seldom if ever seen by white people, has been discovered by the Italian, explorer, the Duke of the Abruzzi. One of Italy’s colonies, a part of Somaliland, lies just south of the Abyssinian border, says Dr. E. E. Free, in his Week’s Science. “Through this colony flows the river called the Webishebeli, the Abyssinian headwaters of which the Italian Government commissioned the duke to explore. At one place along this river, he reports, the water has cut a deep gorge through almost horizontal rock strata much as the Colorado River has cut the Grand Canyon. “The gorge 1 is reported to be six to twelve miles wide and from qugrters of a mile to one mile -deep. Its sides are almost bare of vegetation, as is true also of the Grand Canyon, so that the horizontal rock layers are ex-' The . colouring and the unusual pinnacles and other rock forms sculptured by erosion in the American Grand Canyon are reported to be less spectacular in . the newly-discovered African duplicate., ' “Just as the waters of the Colorado River, after emerging from the American Grand Canyon, now are to be usedfor power and irrigation by the new Government project at Boulder Dam, so the river that flows through the African capyon ultimately will be put to us& M&feAbiliMM ma mumw rf nn—A,i