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The Colorado River 
it will tax the endurance of any man. The declivity is the 
greatest of the whole river with the exception of the First 
Granite Gorge of the Grand Canyon and a portion of Cataract 
Canyon. A diagram of it is given on page 57. I have space 
only to describe one or two characteristic incidents. The 
The Canyon of Lodore. Looking down Stream. 
Photograph by E. O. Beaman, U. S. Colo. Riv. Exp. 
River here was extremely swift. Fall at left distance. Second expedition landed with 
difficulty on right at foot of tall pines. The dark lines at water’s edge are the boats. 
current of the river was extraordinarily swift; it must have 
been in some places nearly twenty miles an hour. The 
stream averaged about three hundred feet wide. The boats 
in a rapid fairly flew along amidst the foam, plunging and 
rearing in the “tails” of waves which always terminate 
rapids of this class. One day about noon we came shooting 
