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Record reached a point twenty miles below the Dirty Devil River. We found one quite lively rapid just below the mouth of the San Juan. The only thing we observed on that stretch of river from the foot of Cataract Canyon to the Utah- Arizona state line on our trip through there in 1871 which created anything approaching theob-stacles encountered by us in Labyrinth Canyon on the Green River was the one rapid I have referred to just below the mouth of the San Juan, the sandstone ledges I have spoken of, and some sand bars. In going down that section of the river where we encountered the sandstone ledges, we let our boat go straight down, and I do not remember of our wasting any time trying to pick out a particular 1582 point in the river for our boat to go. I suppose we must have more or less gone from side to side of the river in trying to locate a channel. My recollection is that every place we tried to get down along there we found those ledges. We could not tell whether they were of uniform height and did not make sufficient examination to be able to state that there was not a channel on 1583 one side or the other of the place where our boats passed. All I can say is that on the line pursued by us, we occasionally came upon a shoal. In my book entitled " Romance of the Colorado" ( at page 287 of Exhibit 13), I say that all through Glen Canyon we found evidences of Puebloan occupation and that the " river was 1584 tame". It would have been better if I had stated in my book that the river in Glen Canyon was " comparatively" tame, but I made no 1585 such qualification in the book. Below the San Juan we had no trouble except there was that very sharp rapid. " the only real rapid in 1586 the Glen Canyon". We made no portage at that rapid and ran right through it, and we did not consider that there was any danger in-cident to going right through it with our boats and did not pay much attention to it. Below that rapid I do not recall that we encountered any obstructions or navigation difficulties from sand bars, shoals, or any other cause. Frederick S. Dellenbaugh testified on redirect examination |
