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extremely bare and barren, mostly rock, and the rain gathered 
as on the roof of a house. The river had narrowed up before 
we reached the San Rafael and had entered low, broken walls. 
The current was rather swift, but there were no rapids. As 
we went on, the sight of the rain cascades falling with vary¬ 
ing volume and colour, some chocolate, some amber, was very 
The Butte of the Cross, between Labyrinth and Stillwater Canyons. 
Photograph by E. O. Beaman, U. S. Colo. Riv. Exp. 
beautiful. They continued for a time after the rain had ceased, 
and then, as if the flood-gates had been closed, they vanished, 
to reappear every time it began to rain afresh. Before long 
the cliffs had reached one thousand feet in altitude, and we 
were fairly within Labyrinth Canyon, which begins its exist¬ 
ence at the mouth of the San Rafael. Many of the rain 
