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The Colorado River 
was also swift and the canyon winding, so that it was not pos¬ 
sible to see ahead. Powell was much disturbed lest they 
should run upon some impassable fall, but luckily in about a 
mile and a half they emerged again into a more broken gorge 
The Crags at Millecrag Bend, foot of Cataract Canyon. 
Photograph by E. O. Beaman, U. S. Colo. Riv. Exp. 
without having had the least difficulty. He justly remarks 
that after it was done it seemed a simple thing to run through 
such a place, but the first doing of it was fraught with keen 
anxiety. In the late afternoon of this same day, they came 
to the end of the forty-one miles of Cataract Canyon, marked 
