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Show 149 Lees Ferry , February 25 , , 1890 ( Compl . Exhibit 176 ) , is especially illuminating : February 25 , , 1890 , 2.30 p . m . Look ahead thinking we saw a rapid . We start at 2.38 and again stop at 2.41 to see great rapid ahead , and when we get to it find only rolling waves . When we stopped to look ahead at 2.30 p . m . we thought we saw a bad rapid ahead on left side . When we got ahead a little on shore there was nothing in sight but swift smooth water . We started ahead again and ran 5 minutes when all three of us , ( Hislpp Hislop ) , Travers , and myself , saw again a heavy rapid with ( break- break ) ing waves ahead . We land with great ( diffi- diffi ) culty and walk down the talus , but there is no rapid . We walk ahead Y2mile to where the waves are breaking , and , after studying them for some time , find that it is an immense body of water moving down the river from what we suppose to be a great cloudburst above . We watch them carefully and the waves rise up gradually as they move down the river to 12 to 15 feet high , and the whole width of the river ( 150 to 200 feet wide ) , and then break upstream just as a huge breaker at sea . A half dozen of these rise and roll , , break with a great roar , and then they ( sub- sub ) side and the water settles down . . The same movement is repeated a little distance down and then further and further . . Now they begin again opposite us and the whole ( opera- opera ) tion is gone through with again . . This ( occurs- occurs occurs ) , 35623-31-11 |
