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Show ( The T-he The ) ( water vatex ) is heavily ( laden 1aden ) ( with '-with with ) . siltj and ( the 'the the ) , horses ( wouldn't wouldnt ) drink it if they could ( get got ) water ( any -my my ) , place else . ( R . 582-583 . ) I The country west of Bluff generally is barren and , desolate . During the first of the summer it is ( nec- nec ) essary to carry food for the horses because it is so dry Supplies were obtained at Bluff , Utah . He crossed the river , he believes , a dozen ( times tinies ) in the vicinity of Mexican Hat , and the water would be around two feet where they crossed . It was ( above cabove ) Mexican Hat where he crossed as ( there Vnere ) was , a bridge near Mexican Hat , and he also crossed near Moonlight Creek , he believes . It was about the first part of May , and he made just one round trip at what ( he lie ) calls low water . He crossed on ( horseback hoTseback ) , and the water would come up to the ( horses's horsess ) belly . ( R . 585 . ) During the month of August there were heavy rains and cloudbursts , and floods were experienced ( on oil ) Moonlight Creek . The water would come up high in a few ( minutes miuutes ) and subside again in a few hours . The channel of the ( San Sail ) ( Juan Juall ) ( River Rviver ) at ( Bluff Bluff- Bluff ) , Utah , is about ( one-quarter onequarter oile-quarter oilequarter ) of a mile wide . In the canyon below ( Chiiile Chinle ) ( Creek Oreek ) the channel is only about fifty to one ( hundred h-undred hundred ) feet wide , more or less , in places . The depth of the canyon is five hundred feet or ( more inore ) ; the distance from rim to rim is one thousand feet . No supplies were taken by boats . ( R . 585- 587 . ) |