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Show so floods , are to be seen on all sides . . ( Photoortiph 212 ( Exhibit ExIdbit ) 11A . . ) Geological Survey photographs , Nos . 1 to 41 , which are part of Exhibit 55 , clearly show that for thousands of square miles the region is arid , barren , and desolate ( also photographs 1.27 to 140 , ( Exhibit Mxhibit ) 55 ) . This fact is also clearly shown in all of the photographs produced by Aurand , Ex hibit 145 , and many others , as well as geneml ( state- state ) ments , as follows : ( -"The The ) " U S ( Geo- Geo ) Gregory Navajo ( Countiy Country ) , . . . . logical Survey Water Supply Paper Nio . 3S0 ( ( Ex- Ex ) hibit 63 , page 21 ) , in describing the area through which the San ( Juan Jfiall ) River flows , ( broadly broadly- broadly ) ( character- character ) izes the region as ( "a a ) plateau in which , the depth of the canyons about equals the height of the mountains * * * * Mesas of the second and , third order and innumerable buttes of both igneous and sedimentary origin , are characteristic features of the country . Mesa , butte , volcanic ( neck ineck ) , canyon , , wash , repeated indefinitely , are elements of the Navajo landscape . Alcoves , ( recesses Tecesses ) , and ( minia- minia ) ture erosion forms of great variety and rare beauty stand as ornamental carvings on the larger ( archi- archi ) tectural features , and over all is spread an unevenly developed sheet of ( wind-blown windblown vind-blown vindblown ) sand . . " Ives , in his report upon the Colorado River of the West ( Exhibit 72 ) - So numerous and interlaced are the ( can- can ) yons in some portions of this ( singular shigular ) recrion |
