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Show this stage of the expedition 432 they had some heavy ( rain Tain ) storms that caused the river to vary slightly , the water coming over the canyon walls in cataracts all the way along during these storms . Just below the San Rafael they encountered very heavy rain storms , and the cascades were numerous , there being hundreds of them falling into the river , some with a fall of fifty feet and some with a fall of eight hundred or nine hundred feet . These cascades ( didn't didnt ) have much effect on the river itself , but the continuous rains will raise the river . ( R . 1528- 1529 . ) As you turn into Cataract Canyon and run down about four miles , you meet with a very bad . rapid ; the fall must be ten or fifteen feet , in a few yards , and from that on down you have a very severe river . Cataract Canyon is about forty miles long , and Narrow Canyon , below , is about ten , making about fifty miles altogether . And in one portion of the river there is a fall of about two hundred and twenty feet in twenty miles . ( R . 1529 . ) The ( ex- ex ) pedition ran some of the rapids in Cataract Canyon and made portages around others . Did not run all the rapids in Cataract Canyon ; ran some , and made portages around others ; had to make a good many portages in that middle stretch of Cataract Canyon where the declivity is so great . It was necessary to line the boats very often ; very often they had to ( line lilie ) them down , and then sometimes get ( in ill ) them and run a little ways , |