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Which sentence best states how the author develops his thesis?
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excerpt adapted from Canyons of the Colorado
by John Wesley Powell
The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately
represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The
resources of the visual arts are taxed beyond their powers in
attempting to portray its phenomenal beauty. Language and
illustration
combined must fail. The elements that unitet
e to
make the Grand Canyon the most sublime spectacle in nature
are many and exceedingly diverse. The glant forms, which
result from the sculpture of tempests through ages
man to compute, are wrought into endless Το
these forms would be a task equal in magnitude to that of
describe
describing the stars in the sky or the abundant beauties of the
forest with its tracerles of follage presented by oak and pine
and poplar, by beech and linden and hawthorn, by tulip and lily
and rose, by fern and moss and lichen. Besides the elements of
form, there are elements of color. The rainbow is not more
replete with hues. But form and color do not exhaust all the
divine qualities of the Grand Canyon. It is the land of music. The
river thunders in perpetual roar, swelling In floods of music
when the storm rains play upon the rocks, and fading away in
soft and low murmurs when the infinite blue of the sky is
unveiled. With the melody of the great tide rising and falling
swelling and vanishing forever, other melodies are heard in the
gorges of the lateral canyons, while the waters plunge in the
rapids among the rocks or leap in great cataracts. Thus, the
Grand Canyon is a land of song. Mountains of music swell in the
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