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Show 332 a number of times by each. From the mouth of the San Juan down to Lee's Ferry, trouble with sand bars was encountered frequently, as a matter of fact, most of the trouble encountered on the trip was had at this section of the river. Most of these sand bars occur between the mouth of the San Juan and the Utah line. As Lee's Ferry is neared, the water becomes deep and the sand bars fewer. One rapid just below Bridge Canyon occurs in this section of the river between the mouth of the San Juan and the Utah line. Other points where rapid water was encountered were called riffles by him because they looked somewhat smaller to him in comparison to the cataracts that he had run. R. 852- 853. " 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- R. 853 ( Note" Discussion by counsel R. 853) " A. We would make a difference in the height of the waves, where we found waves just about a foot high and hundreds of those jumping up and down, we would call that a riffle; it gave evidence of |