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Show They hadhit ( some soine ) little 209 riffles in there that they called rapids , because they ( hadn't hadnt ) seen any ( real roal ) rapids , or ( hadn't hadnt ) taken their boats into ( any any' any ) ( X'qal Xqal xW ) rapids . ( R 770 . ! There is Flaming Gorge , Horseshoe and King ; fisher ( Canyons Caiiyons ) that are not more than twelve ( miles milea ) . in length . Major Powell named them ( when -when when ) he ( * , ) went through . There was a little quiet water and park below the , . short canyons then they came to Red Canyon which , , he believes , is about sixty miles in length and it ( had hacl ) some bad rapids in it . ( R . 770 . ) Bad rapids in most cases up there are caused ( by by- by ) side canyons which come in in the flood stages , washed ( rocks roclis ) of all sizes up to ten ( feet leet ) in ( diameter diameter- diameter ) into the river ; they dam the river ; there is a great deal of silt as well washed into it , and it causes quiet water above that point , and the water spreads out possibly a quarter of a mile , sometimes shorter , sometimes a third of a mile and it causes violent , water going over those rocks . From the Utah line to the Colorado line there was one rapid at the lower end of Red Canyon called Vermillion Creek , a rapid that caused trouble , ( and aud ) one boat was run through and hit rocks , and ( aii- aii ) other boat was lined through . Then there was another rapid where one boat was taken through and the other boat was lined through . ( 33307-31-voi 3330731voi ) * 1-14 |