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Show This happened above Rock ( 312 212 ) ( Creak Oreek ) Y that ( might in'glit inglit ) be forty or fifty miles above Greenriver , Utah . Rock Creek is ( on oil ) the ( east cast ) side of Greenriver above ( Mc- Mc "NIQ- NIQ ) ( IPherson's IPhersons Pherson's Phersons ) ranch . ( McPherson ANIcPhersoll ) had a trail up there and would drive his cattle up there . ( R . 782 . ) ( Found Foinid ) numerous bad rapids through that ( see- see ) tion . By bad rapids , ( he lie ) means rapids that would have a fall ( of crf ) twelve or fifteen feet ; most of that . fall would come at the beginning of the rapid . Twelve or fifteen feet in one hundred and fifty yards , then the violent water , big waves and ( whirl whirl- whirl ) pools would continue some little distance below that , but there ( wasn't wasnt ) the danger of striking rocks with their boats , that they would have at the ( begin begin- begin ) ning of the rapids ; that is the usual difference ; and through nearly all that section they would find one such rapid per mile ; that is a pretty good average . In Desolation Canyon now . The name changes to Gray Canyon just below ( McPherson McPherson's McPhersons ) ranch ; there are much the same conditions in the upper ( end eild ) of Gray ( Canyon Cmiyon ) ; the rapids are not quite so bad ; it is lively water ; the descent is more continuous ; that is , ( in ill ) Desolation Canyon would find a rapid , then directly at the foot of the rapid comparatively quiet water for ( two-thirds twothirds ) of a mile , perhaps , sometimes longer , sometimes less . Then you come to another rapid , and go over that in the same ( way -way way ) . Ran rapids in Gray Canyon ; there was one ( spe- spe ) cially bad rapid right at the beginning of Gray Canyon , on account of a little river that came in from the west . ( R . 782-783 . ) |