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Show 110 EXPLORATION OF TDE CANONS OF THE COLORADO. stream, an d wa Je along the channel whe'J:e the water is so swift as . to almost carry us off our feet, and we are in danger every moment of _bemg .•wept d own, un t1'l n1'ob- l1t comes on. We estimate we have traveled mg•h t mil•e s to day. We find a little patch of flood-plain, on which there is a hu~e p1le of driftwood and a clump of box-elders, and near b:y a great stream, whiCh bursts from the rocks-a mammoth spring. We soon have a huge fire, our clothes are spread to dry, we make a cup of coffee, take out our bread and cheese and dried beef, and enjoy a hearty supper. The canon here is about twelve hundred feet deep. It Las been very narrow and winding all the way down to this point. September 11.-Wading again this morning; sinking in the quicksand, swimming the deep waters, and making slow and painful progress where the waters are swift, and the bed of tl1e stream rocky. The cafton is steadily becoming deeper, and, in many places, very narrow- only twenty or thirty feet wide below, and in some places no wider, and even narrower, for hundreds of feet overhead. There are places where the river, in sweeping by curves, has cut far under the rocks, but still preserving its narrow channel, so that there is an overhanging wall on one side and an inclined wall on the other. In places a few l1undred feet above, it becomes vertical again, and thus the view to the sky is entirely clos~d. Everywhere this deep passage is dark and gloomy, and resounds with the noise of rapid waters. At noon we are in a canon 2,500 feet deep, and we come to a fall where the walls are broken down, and huge rocks beset the channel, on which we obtain a foothold to reach a level two hundred feet below. Here the cailon is again wider, and we find a flood-plain, along which we can walk, now on this, and now on that side of the stream. Gradually the cafton widens; steep J•apids, cascades, and cataracts are found along the I;ver, but we wade only when it is necessary to cross. We make progress with very great labor, having to climb over piles of broken rocks. Late in the afternoon, we come to a little cloaring in the valley, and see other signs of civilization, and by sundown arrive at the Mormon town of gSrcahpuens.e sburg; and here we meet the tr~in, and feast on melons and |