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Show 538 This condition continued clear down to the junction with the Green River. He remembers a place near the mouth of Green River called the " slide" where " we camped there one night, and climbed the cliff on the right bank of the river as far as we could go; we went up fifteen hundred feet." This " slide" is an accumulation of boulders in the Colorado River about one mile and a quarter or mile and a half up stream from the mouth of the Green River. R 1322. He is not able to express any opinion as to the age, in years geologically, of the " slide". The last great period in geological history to which a name is given is the Pleistocene, " which was the age of the great glacial invasion of the northern United States and Canada." R. 1322 From that time on " we generally speak of it as recent times." R. 1322. He could not tell whether it is one hundred, two hundred, five hundred or one thousand years old. " I didn't study it; I wouldn't want to give an opinion without having studied it." R. 1322. He doubts very much whether anybody could tell what year the rocks broke off there, unless the rocks were worn away by the process of weather or something. R. 1323. He does not know how much of the river bed that " slide" occupies. |