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60 MONUMENT PARK.

ably described by a correspondent of the Memphis
Appeal, as follows:

“People from all quarters of the globe have visited
this valley known as Monument Park. They come, no
doubt, to relieve fatigued fancies, and give rest to the
imagination, overtasked by the effort to grasp all the
wonders beheld while in mountain gorges, cavernous
canons, and from dizzy cliffs. It is commonly said that
all the heathen gods went through this narrow valley
and set up on either side of the marvelously beautiful
glen, monuments of stone in perpetual attestation of de-
lights, for which they were indebted to terrestrial exist-
ence in the midst of wonders like these, and in a climate
so delightful, and atmosphere so clear and pure, that an
angel’s breath would not be less sweet, if caught up
from breezes that sigh amid the countless monuments
adorning this wonderful valley. The monuments are
of granular limestone, varying in height from ten to two
hundred feet; across the summit of each well propor-
tioned pillar, varying in diameter from five to twenty
feet, lies an ever-enduring sandstone cap, protecting the
softer shaft below. Long colonnades project from the
steep declivity down into the midst of the valley. And
in its very midst, far down in the deep glen on the sum-
mit of a solitary pillar, like that which attested the folly
of Lot’s wife, Vulcan left his anvil. A wandering
photographist came, and I have the picture of this last
relic of the Lemnian deity. Hard by is a group of
monuments, in the designation of which a singular an-

achronism is involved. It is termed the ‘Dutch Wed-