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Show 82 -- 78-- " A I travelled in the canoe, and Mr. Blake, the boatman, handled the larger boat, because it had more draft, and he is an expert boatman, as I think any one in that country will recognize. " Q Now, proceeding down the Green River, from the mouth of the San Rafael, just tell me what happened. " A Well, we had gone but a very short distance when we found that the canoe was looking very badly, and we had to stop on a bar and patch the canoe. I might say that, below the mouth of the San Rafael River there is, to all practical purposes, a uniform slope of between one and two feet to the mile. There are no riffles, no rapids, no breaks in the general surface of the water. The river enters the canyon about two miles below the mouth of the San Rafael, and from that point to the mouth of the Green River flows continuously in the two canyons named by Major Powell. The river channel on the last stretch meanders between the rock walls, with alternating sandbars on each side of the river, with crossing bars, and generally between all of the straight stretches there are crossing bars. The bed of the channel is sand and silt deposited there on account of the slack water. The channel wanders and meanders between those bars. We surveyed three or four of the larger typical sidebars, in order to get an idea of their characteristics, how permanent they were, how they cut and washed, and we took photographs and soundings throughout to determine the depth. With our small boats, there was no great trouble on the bars, because every time we got on |