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Show Lodore was not devoid 25 of scenic interest , even beyond the power of pen , to tell . The ( roar" roar roar- roar ) of the water was heard unceasingly from ( the the- the ) hour we entered it until we landed here ( ( month moutli ) of Yampa ) . No quiet all that time . But its walls and ( cliffs eliffs ) , its peaks and crags , its ( ampitheatres anipitheatres ) and alcoves , tell a story of beauty and ( grandeur graiideur ) that I hear yet and shall ( hear Ilear ) . ( Photographs 20 to 30 , Exhibit 11A ) . Below the mouth of the Yampa , ( Green Greeil ) River ( im- im ) ( mediately inediately ) ( enters eliters ) Whirlpool Canyon , 11 miles long , and ( Split SpHt ) ( Mountain Ilowntain ) ( Cm-yon Cmyon ) , 10 miles long , ( sepa- sepa ) rated by Island ( Parli Park ) , 5 miles long . From the lower end of Split ( Mountain Momitain ) Canyon the river flows southward 108 miles through ( Umtah Uiata7b ) ( Valley VaHey ) to the mouth of the Duchesne . Powell ( Exhibit 51 , page 43 ) states that the walls of Whirlpool Canyon vary from 1,800 feet to 2,400 feet ( in iii ) height and Split ( Mountain 1ountain ) Canyon walls from 2,500 to 2,700 feet high . ( Photographs 32 to 44 , Exhibit 11A . ) Southward from the mouth of the ( Duchesne Dueliesne ) , Green River flows through Desolation Canyon , 54 miles ; Gray Canyon , 21 miles ; and across the Green River valley 12 ( miles iniles ) to Green River , Utah . Powell , in ( Exhibit ExIiibit ) 51 , page 56 , states that the ( high- high ) est canyon vaH in Desolation Canyon is 2,400 feety the walls ( in iii ) Gray Canyon 2,000 feet . ( ( Photo- Photo ) graphs 49 to 62 , Exhibit 11A . ) . |