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Show OUBEN HlVEH BAD-JJANDS. 9 pack a part of the scientific instruments, tlu·ee guns, and three small bundl ~ of clothing only. In this, I proceed in advance, to explore the channel. J. C. Sumner and William II. Dunn aro my boatmen in tho "Emma Dean;" then follows "Kitty Clyde's Sister," m:mned by W. B. Powell and G. Y. Bradley; next, the "No Name," with 0. G. Howland, Seneca Howland, and Frank Goodman; and la t comes the "Maid of the Canon," with W. R. Hawkins and Andrew Hall. Our 'boats are heavily loaded, and only with tho utmost care is it possi-ble to float in the rough river without shipping water. • A .mile or two below town, we run on a sand-bar. Tho men jump into thA stream, and thus lighten the vessels, so that they drift over; and on we go. In trying to avoid a rock, an oar is broken on one of the boats, and, thus crippled, she strikes. The cuneut is swift, and she i sent reeling and rocking into the eddy. In tho confusion, two others are lost overboard and the men seem quite discomfited, much to the amu ement of the other members of the party. Catching the oars and starting again, the boats are once more borne down the stream until we land at a small cottonwood grove on the bank, and camp for noon. During the afternoon, we run down to a point whore the river sweeps the foot of an overhanging cliff, and hero we camp for tho night. rrhe sun is yet two hours high, so I climb the cliffs, and walk back among the strangely carved rocks of the Groen River bad-lands. These are sandstones and shales, gray and buff, red and brown, blue and black strata in many alternations, lying nearly horizontal, and almost without oil and vegetation. They are very friable, and tho rain and streams have carved them into quaint shapes. Barren de ·olation is stretched before me; and yet there is a beauty in the scene. The fantastic carving, imitating architectural forms, and suggesting rude but weird statuary, with tho bright and varied colors of the rocks, conRpiro to make a scone such as the dweller in verdure-clad hills can scarcely approcia,te. Standing on a high point, I can look off iu every direction over a va.'t landsca.po, with salimtt rocks and cliffs glittering in tho ev ning sun. Dark shadows are settling in tho valleys and gulches, nnd the hoigltts are made 2 OOL |