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Royal Gorge 10 mi (16 km) long, narrow canyon cut by the Arkansas River, S central Colo., often called the Grand Canyon of the Arkansas. The gorge was discovered in 1806 by an expedition led by U.S. explorer Zebulon Pike. Its near-vertical walls are more than 1,000 ft (305 m) high. One of the world's highest suspension bridges, 1,053 ft (321 m) above the river, crosses the canyon, and a cable railway ascends the canyon wall.

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Maverick, Samuel

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Maverick, Samuel (c.1602–c.1676),came to Massachusetts about 1624, when he was evidently associated with Gorges, and engaged in commerce in the Bay Colony. He returned to England after the Restoration, and wrote A Briefe Discription of New England and the Severall Townes Therein (1660), probably in the interests of more rigid colonial supervision. He returned to Massachusetts as a royal commissioner (1664).

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