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Show 3563 1585 74 Dellenbaugh- C think it means it is tame water. Of course it is a compara-tive term, just like good is, or slow, or fast, but I don't think it conveys any suggestion of violence of dangerous water, or water that there six any difficulty at all in navigating. THE SPECIAL MASTER: I suppose a man who had lived on a mill pond would regard one thing as tame, whereas a man that had lived all his life on the seashore would regard another thing as tame. I am not clear that adjectives are susceptible of absolute meaning. They are all comparative. Go ahead. BY MR. FARNSWORTH: Q Continuing on the same page, following immediately what I have just read to you ( reads): " The low stage of water rendered progress some-what difficult at times, but nevertheless we made fairly good time, and on the 5th of October passed the San Juan, a shallow stream at this season, entering through a wide canyon of about the same depth as that of the Colorado, that is, about twelve hund-red or fourteen hundred feet." A That is correct. Q Then below there, as I think you stated on your direct examination, below the San Juan you had no trouble? A We had that very sharp rapid, the only real rapid in the Glen canyon; the others are what we would call more riffles, little |