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Show , 49 an average of 102 ( clays days ) with temperatures ( below beloNv ) freezing . During January , 1878 , LaRue records ( Exhibit 62 , pages 12-13 ) the crossing of the Colorado River at Lees ( Perry Ferry ) of loaded wagons and during ( Jan- Jan ) uary , 1886 , the crossing of stock . On January 15 , 1925 ) the ice at Lees ( Perry Ferry ) was ( sufficiently sufficieiitly ) thick to support loaded animals . Reference is made to ice conditions ( in iii ) the record , as follows : Baldwin ( Vol . 6 , pages 1192 , 1213 ) ; Hyde ( Vol . 9 , page 1700 ) ; Zahn ( Vol . 11 , page 2028 ) ; Bennett ( Vol . 17 , page 3192 ) ; ( Ohaffin Chaffin ) ( Yol Vol ) . ( 17 -1.7 ) ( page 3292 ) ; Hyde ( Vol . 18 , page 3357 ) ; Howland ( Vol . 26 , page ( 4624 4G24 ) ) . Rapids , riffles , and cataracts The ( various -various various ) witnesses have given their own ( defi- defi ) nitions of " rapids . ( ' I ) ( ' I ) The great majority have made no differentiation between little rapids , referred to by some as riffles , and the large rapids or cataracts . In general they have been described as ( obstruc obstruc- obstruc ) tions to the flow of the water of sufficient size to either raise the water or contract the vidth of the channel causing waves and high velocities . ( Cer- Cer ) tain portions of the river have few , if any , rapids while in other stretches rapids predominate . For the purpose of clearness the rivers are divided into outstanding stretches as follows : ( Sections where rapids predominate are shown on Exhibit 5 , and tabulation in Exhibit 80 . ) |