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Show 21 -- 18-- boats were hammering on the rocks; and with the weight of the boat and the velocity of the water, if a boat is permitted to grind back and forth on the rocks for just a few hours, it will grind a hole through the bottom of the boat. And I saw that a part of our kitchen stuff had floated away. I had a whistle with me, with which I aroused the camp; and we got to work. It was probably nearly midnight then, or some time between ten o'clock and midnight. We first saved what we could of our kitchen equipment, and dragged our blankets up on the rocks. And then, with the water following after us every inch of the way, we hauled our boats, in the time between midnight and dawn, about 25 or 30 feet up the steep slope, the water coming up after us all the time. The water began to recede by dawn, and by two- thirty or three o'clock in the afternoon it was down to where it had been before. The water that night rose to 119,000 second- feet of water; I have forgotten what the amount of water was in the river when we left Greenriver, but not over 20,000 second- feet. " Q What was the difference in levels? " A The best way we had to determine the amount of rise in the river was to look at the water line farther down the river several weeks later, and on down the river in the Glen Gorge, we found the high water mark to be 20 to 30 or 40 feet above the level of the water at which we were traveling at that time, indicating that the water rose 20 or 30 or 40 feet that one night in Cataract Canyon. |
