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Show 3832 Gerdine- D 1853 Then it was easy going in to Lees Ferry. That was the end of the second day from Flagstaff. The next day we put on this load on the boat, decking it up as far as we could carry it with supplies for the men doing the topographic work in connection on with the survey, and we made about fourteen miles, I think, the first day. Quite a few times we got out on the banks and helped tow the boat, to make time; it could just hold its own against the current. That was just a swift stream there; there were no rapids or riffles in that part of the stream -- yes, just before nightfall we struck a riffle, and tried to make it and couldn't, and dropped back down the river, and stayed over night just below the riffle. Q In that fourteen miles did you encounter any sand-bars? A Not what I call sandbars; we struck bottom every now and then; that was on account, you might say, of poor navigation. If we had shifted over a little bit, we probably would not have struck bottom. As I understand, a sandbar is a bar that stretches pretty well across the river. That was a pretty good stream; we didn't encounter any sandbars excepting the one I spoke of, that caused us to drift back that evening. Q Where id the location of that bar or shoal that caused |