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Show 760 There are also bad whirlpools that get your boat completely out of control. This occurred more below Hite and closer to Lees Ferry. A few miles below Hite there is a rapid, know as Bull Frog, that has rather fast water; and one about one hundred miles above Lees Ferry that is called Whirlpool Rapids, which is rougher than Bull Frog, and rather swift water. above one of these rapids they had boats stuck on the gravel and two or three men had to get overboard and dislodge them. He believes this happened above both Bull Frog and Whirlpool Rapids. R. 1818- 1820. At the mouth of the canyon that leads up to the Natural Bridge, two of them grounded, and all down through Glen Canyon there were sand- bars, different boats would lodge, and it would be necessary to get overboard to flood them off. R. 1821. Below Cataract Canyon the river spreads out into a braided channel, one of which appears to be a good opening, but the water spills over the sand- bar, and it is necessary to wash the boats through at the lower end. there is one braided channel above Kite and another some ten or fifteen miles below. They occurred at different places, but he remembers only two, at which places the river spreads to a width of five or six hundred feet. In operating boats through these braided channels, he would just continue down the channel until he would hit bottom. Then he would shove himself off or get overboard and lift the boat off into deeper water, where it |