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Show Aliere . On the second day 879 they started upland it ( took tODk ) them half an hour to get the boat past the rocky ( places 'places places ) at the mouth of Salt Wash . They finally had to virtually drag the boat 100 or 125 yards , the man behind pushing and the man in front pulling , and getting it along the best they could . ( R . 3926-3927 . ) He made an examination of the ( "Slide" Slide ) but it ( would Mould ) be very difficult to determine its age in years . . because in human years changes are not rapid . A , geologist would call it a recent slide , but that might mean 100 years , 500 or even 1,000 years . Many of the rock faces appeared fresh and unweathered . The weathering is not rapid in that place . ( ( E R ) . 3927 . ) The ( "The The "Tbe Tbe ) ( Slide" Slide ) is a large mass of loose rock , in . great pieces four or five feet in diameter , and on down to much finer material , and which has fallen so near the upper part of the right bank of the river . It has constricted the river width to about 120 feet ( there -there there ) , and the water goes like a mill race through that little area , but that great mass of loose rock goes out into the bed of the river and restricts the , , normal width . ( R . 3927-3928 ) . From memory ( he be ) would say the slide was 250 feet wide . It is composed ( entirely -entirely entirely ) of loose rock which now rests on what ( prob- prob ) ably was the river bottom . It sticks out just like . . a boom into the river . It is difficult to climb over . There is no method known to geologists whereby the . age of the slide could be determined and if there is no one who saw the river before the slide was there . . and afterward , there is no way of telling its age in |