Note 6 — AMERICAN ADVENTURE.[5]
Reading edition
"A cañon is the narrow opening between two mountains, several hundred and sometimes a thousand feet in depth; rising, some of them, like perpendicular cliffs on either hand, as if torn asunder by a violent convulsion of nature. Through these pour the rushing mountain torrents of the wet diggins of the gold regions of California."—Sights in the Gold Regions, p. 180.