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difficulty of pursuing them over the wild cliffs^ which they 
seemed to know well, we were unable to bring any down. 
Our second day’s run was uneventful through a superb gorge 
about twenty-four hundred feet deep, and at a late hour in the 
afternoon, just after we had run our worst rapid in fine style, 
Entrance to Split-Mountain Canyon, Right Hand Cliffs, 
Height about 2000 feet. 
Photograph by E. O. Beaman, U. S. Colo. Riv. Exp. 
we perceived the great walls breaking away, and they soon 
melted off into rounded hills, exquisitely coloured, as if painted 
by Nature in imitation of the rainbow. The river spread out, 
between and around a large number of pretty islands bearing 
thick cottonwood groves. The shallowness of the water caused 
our keels to touch occasionally, but the current was compara- 
