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A CAMP ON THE RIVER BANK 



some "boatman at any but the lowest. 

 The lady members of the family went 

 on ahead, and the Cruiser set out for 

 the roughest and most picturesque 

 consecutive twenty-five miles on 

 the Delaware, the interval to Port 

 Jervis. 



At the foot of the apron is an im- 

 mense returning wave or "comber." 

 The waves of rapids are made by the 

 impact of very swift water against that 

 lest swift or at rest. Hence they curve 

 backwards, being vastly more difficult 

 for a boat to ride than the uniform 

 undulations of non-flowing water. It 

 will be seen that as the river lowers, 



such waves must increase in size as a 

 result of greater declivity and corre- 

 spondingly greater velocity of flow be- 

 ing concentrated in localities. Some 

 years ago, at quite low water, a leading 

 member of the Brooklyn Canoe Club 

 lost his life going through a five-foot 

 wave here. We got it about three feet 

 high and while it occasioned a thrill, the 

 risk was not great and we escaped with- 

 out a wetting. 



From Lackawaxen to near Port Jervis 

 the Erie Railroad skirts one bank and 

 an abandoned canal the other; where 

 the latter is still intact, it is used as a 

 road. As we ran the much talked-about 



THE RIVER AT EQUINUNK, PA. 

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