Whirlpools 
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feet in diameter, drawing evenly down toward the vortex, the 
centre being probably about eighteen inches to two feet below 
the rim. The vortex at the top was about six to ten inches in 
diameter, diminishing in five or six feet to a mere point at the 
bottom. Our boats were twenty-two feet long, and as they 
were turned around in these whirls they about reached across 
them, while we could look 
over the side and see the vor¬ 
tex sucking down every small 
object. The opposite of these 
was the fountains, or boils, 
where the surface was exactly 
the reverse of the whirls: a 
circular mass of water about 
twenty feet in diameter would 
suddenly lift itself a foot or 
two above the general surface 
with a boiling, swirling move¬ 
ment. As I remember them 
they were usually the forerun¬ 
ners of the whirlpools. 
The river was still on the 
rise, scoring at the last camp 
another three feet. With such 
a dashing current the time we 
made where we were not com¬ 
pelled to move cautiously was 
admirable. On this day four¬ 
teen miles were traversed, we 
ran twenty-three rapids, and, 
what pleased us most, we saw 
the granite disappear, and the 
comfortable-looking red strata were again beside us. The 
river widened somewhat, and was now about two hundred and 
fifty feet. A cascade was passed on the /th, which we recog¬ 
nized as one Beaman, who had climbed up to it during the 
winter, from the mouth of the Kanab, had photographed. 
From here to the Kanab was ten miles, and we sailed along 
The Outlet of the Creek in Surprise Valley, 
near the Mouth of Kanab Canyon, 
Grand Canyon. 
Photograph by E. O. Beaman. 
