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 . over rocks, the boats were skidded over themabout their own length and dropped in again. Logsand boats were lined down in the swift, but less riotouswater, to the next barrier, which was more difficult. Aten-foot rounded boulder lay close to the shore, withsmaller rocks, smooth and ice-filmed, scattered currents swirled between these rocks and dis-appeared under two others, wedged closely together ontop. Three times the l
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 . over rocks, the boats were skidded over themabout their own length and dropped in again. Logsand boats were lined down in the swift, but less riotouswater, to the next barrier, which was more difficult. Aten-foot rounded boulder lay close to the shore, withsmaller rocks, smooth and ice-filmed, scattered currents swirled between these rocks and dis-appeared under two others, wedged closely together ontop. Three times the logs were snatched from our graspas we tried to bridge them across this current, and theyvanished in the foam, to shoot out end first, twenty feetbelow and race away on the leaping water. A boatwould be smashed to kindling-wood if once carried underthere. At last we got our logs wedged, and an hour oftugging, in which only two men could take part atthe same time, landed both boats in safety below thisbarrier. We shot the remainder of the rapid on waterso swift that the oars were snatched from our hands ifwe tried to do more than keep the boats straight. ii lauzon. E. i. kc u.!i. Copt/riglUby Koto LAST PORTAGE. THE ROCKS WERE [CE-FILMED. NOTE POTHOLES. THE LAST PORTAGE AND THE LAST RAPIDS 271 with the current. That rapid was no longer the BoldEscarpment, but the Last Portage instead, and itwas behind us. The afternoon was half gone when we made readyto pull away from the Last Portage. There were otherrapids, but scarcely a pause was made in our two-hour run,and we camped away from the roar of water. Thecanyon was widening out a little at a time; the granitedisappeared in the following days run, at noon. Grass-covered slopes, with seeping mineral springs, took theplace of precipitous walls; they dropped to 2500 feetin height; numerous side canyons cut the walls in regu-lar sections like gigantic city blocks, instead of an un-broken avenue. Small rapids continued to appear
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