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Show Blake- D 922 that rowboat upstream between the mouth of the San Rafael and Greenriver, Utah? MR. FARNSWORTH: You mean -- MR. BLACKMAR: As the water was when he was on it. At certain stretches, but not -- I am talking about the entire distance. Not as a rowboat. If you had had the power engine on it, could you have taken it up? I think not. I omitted this Sonaba riffle, also, which is peculiar in that stretch of water; the typical characteristic is gravel bars; the peculiarity of this Sonaba riffle is bed rock the entire distance across the river, with portions of the bed rock so close to the surface as to make riffles in the surface of the water, indicating their location. The riffle is not swift, but it is very distinctly a dangerous portion of the river. Now, as briefly as possible describe the progress of your trip from the mouth of the San Rafael down to the mouth of the Green river, telling me what difficulties, if any, you encountered in the operation of the boat. There was the one difficulty -- the primary difficulty was the finding of the channel through these crossing bars, and another difficulty was our flood stage of water, at one time or another, which would cause us to keep constantly on the 2892 |
