" CAPONS " AND " CANYON S."
[To not EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.1 • Sla,—In the review of my "Camps in the Rockies," which -appeared in the Spectator of January 27th, your reviewer passes what, in my humble opinion, are somewhat severe strictures upon the phonetic spelling of the word " cailon," making it ap- pear, as he says, "in the hideous guise of canyon.'" Whether this, on my part, quite deliberate literary " misdemeanour " is one deserving at the hands of "the mildest reviewer" such con- demnation, I shall leave to others to decide, and only suggeit in this place that were your reviewer conversant with many of the American works upon geological researches and explorations in which this word is rendered "canyons," and appears very fre- quently, he would have hardly much temper left to be put out by what many persons consider a perfectly legitimate literary innovation, i.e., the phonetic spelling of foreign words of involved composition.—I am, Sir, &e.,
THE AUTHOR OF "CAMPS IN THE ROCKIES."
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