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Show 5924 372 3950 A To Mile 22. a The work which you and your associate were doing on that occasion, did it required that you stop and get out? A No, not at all, except to keeep the boat going, be-cause the top of the rocks in all that part of the valley -- the inner canyon of the river is low; and it rises so gently, it rises upstream and risen so gently that you see it for miles and miles and everything is bare rock; there is nothing covered. Q Well, your work both up and down on the river did not engage your attention so much that it interfered with the operation of the boat? A Not at all. I could look around and see that the strata in sight were just about as they had been for a long while back, and then look ahead and see what it was ahead. And Mr Turpin attend to the engine, and watched the river quite closely, and I did, too, looking at the river and then at the walls, ad then back again. Q How far did you go on the next day? A The next day, the 8th, 12 miles; we went from Mile 22 to Mile 30. We got a late start that morning, because we |