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GRAND CANYON

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 347 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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GRAND

GRAND
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CANYON (Anglicized form of Span. canon, a tube, pipe or cannon; the Spanish form being also frequently written)
CANYON , a profound

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GORGE

gorge in the

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west corner of

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ARIZONA (from the Spanish-Indian Arizonac, of unknown meaning,—possibly " few springs,"-the name of an 18th-century mining camp in the Santa Cruz valley, just S. of the present border of Arizona)

Arizona, in the

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south-western

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PART

part of the

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UNITED

United States of

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AMERICA

America, carved in the

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plateau region by the

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COLORADO

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RIVER

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