Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico, with a foreword by Owen Wister;new edition with (72 plates) from photographs by the author and his brother . CLIFF RUINS NEAR THE SAN JUAN RAINBOW NATURAL BRIDGE LOOKING 301 ill PLACER GOLD 163 clean, firm sand, instead. Here in Glen Canyon we hadplenty of mud, for the river had been falling the last fewdays. Time and again we inspected seemingly favourableplaces, only to be disappointed. The willows and denseshrubbery came down close to the river; the mud wasblack, deep, and sticky; all driftwood had gone out onthe last flood. Meanwhile
Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico, with a foreword by Owen Wister;new edition with (72 plates) from photographs by the author and his brother . CLIFF RUINS NEAR THE SAN JUAN RAINBOW NATURAL BRIDGE LOOKING 301 ill PLACER GOLD 163 clean, firm sand, instead. Here in Glen Canyon we hadplenty of mud, for the river had been falling the last fewdays. Time and again we inspected seemingly favourableplaces, only to be disappointed. The willows and denseshrubbery came down close to the river; the mud wasblack, deep, and sticky; all driftwood had gone out onthe last flood. Meanwhile a glorious full moon hadrisen, spreading a soft, weird light over the canyonwalls and the river; so that we now had a light muchbetter than the dusk of half an hour previous, our coursebeing almost due south. Finally, becoming discouraged,we decided to pull for the San Juan River, feeling surethat we would find a sand-bar there. It was late whenwe reached it, and instead of a sand-bar we found a deltaof bottomless mud. We had drifted past the point wherethe rivers joined, before noticing that the stream turneddirectly to the west, with canyon walls two or three hun-dred feet high, and no
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