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Show Blake- D 919 enough for the boat on the side. The water was placid then from here some distance. The next bad water, I believe, at least the next of the worst water, was what they called the Auger. At the head of this stretch is a typical gravel riffle; the water runs swiftly southward into a bank of earth and rock which extends towards the east, turning the river in that direction. Then below here the water is placid, and there is a large sandbar which was exposed. We landed against this sandbar, which was muddy from the recent rise in the river, and we made our camp on this sandbar, where we had a very disagreeable wind over night at that place. Then, on below here, the river was typical, with rather long stretches of straight river for a time. There was, at places, the shallow gravel; other places, which were few, of sandbars, as most of the bars through this stretch are gravel bars. Then we came to what was called Second Anvil, which is a riffle, and proceeded on through this same character of territory to First Anvil, which was quite a difficult riffle. I do not remember the rotation of the next bars and riffles, but there were many, many sand dunes began to appear 2889 |