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Show 632 stretch of the river. R. 1525. " Q. Tell me, Mr. Dellenbaugh, please, what you mean by rapids, by riffles generally where the water. " A. We called riffles generally where the water was simply swift, with some small waves, where the water was shallow, and your boat was apt to ground at low water. " The rapids, on the other hand, were lively descents, from five or six to ten or fifteen feet in thirty or forty yards, sometimes longer, and required a great deal of consideration and care and caution." R. 1526. " The expedition left Greenriver, Utah, about the middle of July, the exact date being stated correctly in his book [ Complainant's Exhibit no. 14] and the expedition had no serious trouble with grounding on sand- bars between Greenriver, Utah, and the mouth of the San Rafael and that they saw no other boats or people outside of the Hamblins. Below the San Rafael River they come to Labyrinth Canyon ad following that is Stillwater Canyon. Both of these canyons were comparatively free from rocks. They had trouble grounding in Labyrinth Canyon on the sand- bars, but not in Stillwater Canyon, as the river was narrow there and they went on without much trouble. R. 1526- 1527. " Q. What method did you adopt of getting off of these sandbars? " A. We got off and waded along, sometimes waded for considerable distances, lift the boats along, case them up. |