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Show Record the river, where it was evident that bed rock extended clear across. the boat scraped on rock on the bottom in the best channel we could find, and the water must have been less than a feet above the bed 4056 of the stream at that point for a distance of 50 feet or more. I notice on my map we started down the river on September 8th. I took this map with me and noted the rapids as I came to them. The first rapid was at mile 118 above Lees Ferry. My use of the word rapid would refer to any narrowing of the river that would cause a change in slope and an increase in velocity sufficient to 4057 produce waves or wavelets on the surface of the water. The next rapid was at mile 116 above Lees Ferry and the third about 115.9, and the fourth at mile 113.2, then this bed rock rapid was the fifth, at mile 112.1. The sixth was at mile 110 and the seventh at mile 109, and the eighth at mile 108, and then I got tired or marking these little rapids which were not of any material importance anyhow. 4058 My notes show a rapid just below the mouth of Aztec Creek. That was one of the three more difficult rapids, if you might call them that, on this stretch of the river. The other one was near the mouth of Oak Creek and the third was what we called 4059 Whirlpool rapid. On that trip sand bars were frequent occurrences. We would often run into them unawares. I remember we were stuck for several hours on one just above mile 61. We were traveling down a little too great a speed. In a silty river like this, where it widens out, there is the tendency for a bar to form in the middle of the river, with a channel on either side, and coming down stream it is pretty hard to tell which channel to take. Attention is called to complainant's Exhibit 90 showing 4060 stream flow at Lees Ferry from September 8 to 16, 1922. We had four open row boats, 18 feet long, about 4 feet beam, and 6 or 8 inches draft. During the month of September, 1927, I made an automobile |