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Show Record between Green River, Utah, and the mouth of the Green River; but I do not remember whether there were any sand bars between Green River, Utah, and the mouth of the San Rafael. The only way in which sand bars interfered with navigation of the boats was that when we ran into one it would be necessary to leap overboard and push the boatsoff into the deep water and guard the boats carefully as the swift water caught them and swept them off. One man habitually wore a bathing suit; the others, their regular 46 clothes, but they cut their trousers midway between the knee and the hip. We saw a ranch house between Green River and the mouth of the San Rafael and so far as we could see from the river the country was without population. Exhibit No. 19 is a photograph 47 of our noonday camp on the second day. Exhibits 20 and 21 are photographs taken on the Green River, one being taken in Labyrinth 48 or Stillwater Canyon and showing driftwood on the river. Exhibit No. 22 is a picture taken at the lower end of Bow Knot, where Green River forms a loop so that it is only 800 feet across the loop and several miles around by the river. We went through Labyrinth Canyon when the water was at a high level with a steady rise. During the night the river might come up 1 to 3 or 4 feet, and we 49 had difficulty in getting the boats into shore and in launching 50 them. Exhibit No. 23 is a typical view of Labyrinth and Stillwater Canyons, which are very much alike in their formation, palisades rising almost sheer from the river's edge to heights of from 500 to 800 feet. Exhibit No. 24 shows the junction of the Green and Colorado Rivers, where the walls are about 1300 feet high and 51 the river 200 to 300 feet wide and 25 or 30 feet deep. Other explorers on the river speak of the danger of falling rocks, but the place shown in Exhibit 23 is almost the only place on the river where there is any great danger from falling rocks. While at this point there were heavy rains and we spent a day and a half there and saw probably a dozen or fifteen of these rocks loosened by the |