CHAPTER IV. _The Silent River._--Rise of the Colorado--In the

canyon--On the desert--The lower river--Sluggish movement--Stillness of the river--The river’s name--Its red color--Compared with the Nile--The blood hue--River changes--Red sands and silt--River-banks--“Bottom” lands--Green bordering bands--Bushes and flowers--Soundless water--Wild fowl--Herons and bitterns--Snipe--Sadness of bird-life--The forsaken shores--Solitude--Beauty of the river--Its majesty--The delta--Disintegration--The river in flood--The “bore”--Meeting of river and sea--The blue tomb--Shores of Gulf 63