Martinez, Cal. March 22, 1902 Dear Mr Murdock: Your kind letter the set of photographs came safely for which I heartily
thank you. I am heartily with you in all you say of Scotchmen. Wherever grit skill invincible granite determination principle
are required the world cannot do without them. I'm sorry you did not see the Grand Canon of the Colorado River of the West.
What you saw is the gorge of the Arkansas River in the state of Colorado which would make only an insignificant almost unnoticeable
side wrinkle in the wall of the great Arizona Canon. There is no more comparison between the two than between the illegible
rosachs the Himalayas or your Castle Rock or the Bass Mt Blane. The Grand Canon is about 220 miles long 5000 to over 6000
feet deep from 5 to 15 miles wide. A branch railroad runs from the main line of the Santa Fe to the very rim of it. The sculpture
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