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Show eroded areas along the ( 375 SIT5 ) stream , major ( streams streanis ) , there was practically no grass . ( R . 1315 . ) The ( wind-blown windblown wind-blowu windblowu ) sand sculptures are the hardest stones . Some of the most prominent erosional features which the tourist is shown are caused by the blasting action of ( wind-blown windblown ) sand ( on oil ) sand rock . ( R . 1316 . ) This ( wind-blown windblown ) sand to some . extent contributes to the silt of the river . They took a trip by automobile from Moab nearly to Monticello , thence down Indian Creek to the wells that were drilled in that general vicinity . ( R . 1316 . ) They were in that country for a week in 1927 . The character of the terrain there is practically the same as on the north side of the . river , horizontal sandstones forming precipitous . escarpments , narrow divides , very rough cap or buttes , mesas , spurs , pinnacles , needles , and other forms of erosion ; a very inaccessible and rough country . ( R . 1316 . ) There was a very good road , well traveled , south to ( Monticello Alonticello ) but the branch . , from that down Indian Creek was an old trail that led down to a ranch some miles and from , there the oil men had carried material into the oil wells over some trails they had made . ( R . 1316 , 1317 . ) These roads were recent ; forded Indian Creek sixteen times , and had engine and carburetor wrapped up in inner tubes to keep them from ( get- get ) ting wet . ( Below Belo-v'r Belovr ) there , in the vicinity of the oil wells , got there ( with 'with with ) the car all right , but it was a very tortuous trails , and in low gear and second |