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Show ( December Dqqeiiibox ) 15Y 1889 : 81 '' '' : ; , ( V- V ) * They found we could not get ( qur qVr ) boats ( through t1irough ) loadedover the ( haWmiTo halVihilla ) skoal below . j 1 A December 16 1889 : , * * ( commenced cominenced ) our portage at 7 a . m . * * * distance of portage 2,475 ( feet-started feetstarted ) 10.45 , at 12 ( M Al ) . came to head of long ( shoal slioal ) which on last ( summer's summers ) trip ( July , 1889 ) was simply swift water . We started our boats with only three men in to make ( them Clem ) lighter . No . ( 1 I ) went ( through througli ) the first ( three-fourths threefourths three-fourtlis threefourtlis ) mile without ( grounding groundiuo- groundiuo ) , but No . 2 and No . 3 ( both botli ) grounded ( on oil ) gravel and worked for some time to get off . ( Suc- Suc ) ceeding at last all hands got aboard , and we started down the remaining ( three-fourths threefourths ) mile . ( In Ii-i Iii ) about 1,200 feet all boats got stuck on flat shelf of rock and after various efforts with two ( men meil ) ( in iii ) the water we got under way again at 3 p . ( m in ) . Below this , 1 % miles of shoal . o This work is very hard and ( fatigu fatigu- fatigu ) ing . These shoals ( seem seern ) to occur now ( where wliere ) we had simply swift water before * * * . Jones , with the ( second secolid ) Powell expedition , ( notes iiotes ) in his diary ( Exhibit 628 ) : October 2 1871 : , Started again at ( 1 I ) p . ( m in ) . and ran 11 ( miles rdles ) . Ran five shallow rapids , on one of ( which whicli ) the Emma stuck , the Nellie twice . ( Mile 158 to 168 ( above abo've above ) Lees ( Ferry Perry ) . ) |
