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Show Kolb- D 853 A Eight and a half miles below the San Juan. MR. HOYT: mile 68 and 69. BY MR. BLACKMAR: Q Where else in there? MR. FARNSWORTH: If anywhere. A We call the others riffles, not rapids, because we had been through cataracts, and they looked small to us. Q What distinction do you make between rapids and riffles? A If we hadn't run those -- the dangerous water -- we would have called lots of things rapids which we called riffles, after we had been through the dangerous water. People who had never seen those big rapids -- Mr. LaRue, for instance -- MR. FARNSWORTH: We object to his diagnosing the mental operations of other people. MR. BLACKMAR: I am asking him what he means by it. MR. FARNSWORTH: He is going ahead, not answering the question, telling what the other fellow thinks about it. A We would make a difference in the height of the waves, where we found waves just about a foot high and hundred of those jumping up and down, we would call that a riffle; it gave evidence of small rocks just under the surface of the water; we could take the steering oar and touch rocks most of the way through those places; they weren't big rocks that would make enormous waves that would throw the boat from side to 2823 |
