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The Colorado River 
Canyon, and forty-one miles must be put behind us before we 
would see its end—forty-one miles of bad river, too. From 
a point not far up the Green, which we easily reached with 
a boat, a number climbed out by means of a cleft about 
fifty feet wide, taking the photographic outfit along. The 
Head of Cataract Canyon, Looking down from Top of Walls near the 
Junction of the Grand and Green. 
Depth, 1300 feet. 
Photograph by E O. Beaman, U. S. Colo. Riv. Exp. 
country above was a maze of crevices, pinnacles, and buttes, 
and it seemed an impossibility for any human being to travel 
more than a few hundred yards in any direction. The char¬ 
acter of the place may best be illustrated by stating that 
Steward, who had gone up by a different route, was unable to 
reach us, though we could talk to him across a fissure. Many 
