In no respect or degree is the ancient testimony contradicted or falsified by modern evidence. Take for instance the old assertion that the =shan= or mountain-range of the Great Canyon, is "beautiful." Nothing seems more natural than to conclude that such a laudatory term is grossly out of place and that the Mountain-range, with its Canyon and furious =Chu=, is a frightful, gloomy, dangerous, horrible, repulsive, bleak, and ugly mass of shattered and tottering heights. And, indeed, there is much truth in this view of the situation. Nevertheless, modern visitors unite in declaring that Beauty is a marked feature of the rocky heights that possess or direct the Colorado; and this is in agreement with the ancient account. One traveler says: "The roar of its waters was heard unceasingly, ... but its walls and cliffs, its peaks and crags, its amphitheatres and alcoves, tell a story of =beauty= and sublimity" (note 19). Another visitor, who was treated most disrespectfully by our =Chu=, has eyes only for its "beauty": "The Canyon grows more and more picturesque and =beautiful= the farther we proceed.... On many of the long stretches where the river can be seen for several miles, the picture is one of charming =beauty=.... As the clouds rose we were treated to scenes rare and =beautiful= in the extreme" (n. 20.) Again: "Cataract and Narrow Canyons are wonderful, Glen Canyon is =beautiful=, Marble Canyon is mighty; but it is left for the Grand Canyon, where the river has cut its way down through the sandstones, the marbles, and the granites of the Kaibab Mountains, to form those =beautiful= and awe-inspiring pictures that are seen from the bottom of the black granite gorge, where above us rise great wondrous mountains of bright red sandstone capped with cathedral domes and spires of white, with pinnacles and turrets, and towers, in such intricate forms and flaming colors that words fail to convey any idea of their =beauty= and sublimity." The translation informs us that the mighty gorge is the Canyon of =Kiang=, =Shang=, or Almighty God. And a modern visitor declares that "here Omnipotence stands revealed," and that here is "a glorious creation of God." (n. 21.) So impressed were the ancients with the beauty and grandeur of this region that they peopled it with the souls of illustrious sages, and declared that here was the Canyon of Almighty God. And those who enter it today, come reeling back from its portals,--declaring that no mortal can describe its glories, and that it is the Grand Canyon of Almighty God! Words fail one in the attempt to describe this glorious creation of God. The impression it leaves upon the mind is overpowering. One feels as though he had been admitted into the presence of the Genii of the plutonic regions, had penetrated to the very heart of the inner world of elemental creations."