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The Colorado River 
easier or harder than another; but at their easiest they are 
truly fearful places. At one of the worst falls Stanton’s boat 
suddenly crashed upon a rock that projected from the shore, 
and there she hung, all the men being thrown forward. The 
The Grand Canyon—Lava Falls. 
Just below the Toroweap. 
Total depth of canyon about 4500 feet. 
Photograph by J. K. Hillers, U. S. Colo. Riv. Exp. 
boat filled and stuck fast, while the great waves rolled over her 
and her crew. Stanton tried to straighten himself up, and was 
taken in the back by a breaker and washed out of the craft 
altogether into a whirlpool, and finally shot to the surface fifty 
