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Show 526 . . . . . Below Cataract Canyon the river spreads out into a braided channel , one of which appears to be . a good opening but the ( water -water water ) spills over the sand bar , and it is necessary to wash the boats through at the lower end . There is one braided channel above Hite and another some ten or fifteen miles below . They occurred at different places , but he remembers only two , at which places the river spreads to a width of five or six hundred feet . In operating boats through these braided ( chan chan- chan ) nels , he would just continue down the channel until he would hit bottom . Then he would shove himself off or get overboard and lift the boat off into deeper water , where it would wash through . He ( believes beHeves ) this happened two or three or perhaps four ( times -times times ) . ( ( E R ) . 1822 . ) ( Cross-exwmination Crossexwmination Cross-exconination Crossexconination ) ( ( E R ) . Vol . 10 , pp . 1823- 1829 ) : He describes the boiling condition further in the , Colorado ( Biver River ) as being the same thing as a boil . in the Missouri River , and is caused more or less ( from Irom ) submerged rocks . These boils catch the boat , , carry it out of line , cut it around in circles , and it is difficult to get it back in to the main current . It is a kind of a whirlpool condition with a flat top instead of a vortex . They will take your boat out ( of -of of ) control . He found this condition all along from . about one hundred ( miles -miles miles ) above Lees Ferry down to the ferry itself , and states that the boils are ( vorse -worse worse ) as one approaches Lees Ferry . He ( doesn't doesnt ) |
