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Show to ( rock roolc ) is possibly ( twelve t-welve twelve ) ( 335 33-0 ) hundred feet , ( and tuid ) ( in iu ) a few ( pockets poelzets ) it is perhaps as much as two ( thou thou- thou ) ( sand saud ) feet . He only recalls one such pocket , at the ( moment monlent ) , ( and aild ) that is ( so-called socalled ) Cataract ( bottoms bottonis ) , just below the junction between the Green and the ( Colo Colo- Colo ) rado rivers , and of course the basin at Moab , which is some two or ( three th'ree three ) thousand acres in extent largely ( bottom bottolu ) land . ( R . 1226-1227 . ) ( Within 11"ithin 11ithin ) those rock limits the Colorado River is , exceedingly changeable . The bars along the side ! of the rive ( r-incidentally rincidentally ) the term ( "bar" bar ) is used both to indicate alluvial deposit along the side of the river , or a submerged bar beneath the ( water's waters ) . ( surface-the surfacethe ) bars along the side of the river had small trees ( on oil ) them . He should say that none of those trees were much in excess of twenty years of age , with a few possible exceptions . One exception ( is -is is ) this Cataract bottoms , Moab basin , and in the ( Grlen Glen ) Canyon section , the vicinity of Hite , and ( pos- pos ) ( -sibly sibly sibly ) a few others , but in general those bars had . only comparatively young trees ( on oil ) them . In ( addi addi- addi ) ( tion -tion tion ) to that there were , along the Colorado River , very many bars of ( comparatively coniparatively ) narrow width , . say , less than one hundred feet , which had not been in existence long enough to even start a growth of willows . ( R . 1227-1228 . ) There were very few ( 'Cottoiiwoods Cottoiiwoods cottonwoods ) , mostly willows . ( 4 % ) Left ( Moab Afoab ) on August ( 25th 25tb ) , ( quite qiAte ) early in the ( morning -morning morning ) . He notes that at 9.18 passed ( mile inile ) 59 . ( R . 1228 . ) The ( stream streani ) flow at Moab as obtained |