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Show He remembers once they 1032 were stuck for several hours . He made a notation on that point , just above mile 61 . They were traveling down at a little too great a speed , and were then pretty well up on the bar , and it took them quite a while to get off and get started down the river again . In a silty river like this , where it widens out , there is the tendency for a bar to form in the middle of the river , with a channel on either side , and it is pretty hard coming down the ( stream streaW ) , ( with Avitili ) muddy water , to tell which channels to take , and to tell whether the channel you take will carry you on through or not . ( R . 4058-4059 . ) Sheet 16 shows the stream flow for September 8th to 16th . On this trip they had four sturdily ( con con- con ) ( structed -structed structed ) boats , 18 feet long , ( 4-foot 4foot ) beam , that had a draft of 6 to 8 inches . His trip in September , 1927 , between Cisco and Moab , Utah , was made by automobile . He made no notes relative to the river and what he might say would be entirely from recollection . ( R . 4059-4060 . ) Having in mind a trip he had taken through the Glen Canyon , and others , he did observe more or less carefully the general character of the river , with a view to the possibility of traveling on it by rowboat and canoe , and it would seem to him it would be practicable to travel down it in the stretch that way . There were a good many curves , quite a lot of rough water , quite a lot of shallow water , some rocks that would have to be watched out for . ( R . 4060-4061 . ) |